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The best strat I owned was an 80's Japanese Squier.
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.

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and my fernandes is class :) not the equal, but way better than most strats I've hit on.
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Bg wrote:and my fernandes is class :) not the equal, but way better than most strats I've hit on.
I guess all Strats are partscasters when all's said and done. Sometimes you hit on a combination that really works for you and sometimes it's a bit f'naaaaa.... Most are somewhere between the two.

Finding one that's greater than the sum of its parts; that's really got something is pretty rare. Fortunately they're simple enough that the magic needn't require that you spend a lot of money. And besides, spending a lot of money is no guarantee that you'll find it.

Fat Yoda in the corner here says: "When you find a really great guitar, fucking keep it" you should...

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Molly wrote:
Fat Yoda in the corner there says: "When you find a really great guitar, fucking sell it" you should...
Fixed, but I agree about the Strats... for most of them, there seems to be little correlation between price and sound quality. Luckily you have an exception to that rule on its way to meet you.

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Adding to that: the plywood samick strat copy I have sounds real good

... when I hold the cable the right way, facing true east, standing on one leg.

(The jack is twatted :lol: )
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Terexgeek wrote:With the implied value judgement of language like "rip off" it is important to remember that what drove the "lawsuit era" guitars was not a group of fiendish foreign types looking to steal from the noble American brands, but desperate guitarists in the US trying to buy Strats and Les Pauls that were well made and not really expensive.

Gibson and Fender were owned by corporations that were profit taking from the brands, cutting manufacturing costs, avoiding maintenance and generally producing average product at best. American guitar importers were aware of the issues and the demands from the market and answered those concerns using Japanese manufacturers.

The shapes sold were ordered by Americans from Japanese manufacturers because you couldn't buy a fifties style Strat from Fender or Les Paul from Gibson, but that was the style of instrument desired by the market. The quality of the manufacturing in Japan had reached a point in the late seventies that staff from Yamaha Japan were brought in when the Fender brand was rebuilt in the eighties to help revitalise American manufacturing of the product, not to mention the Japanese manufactured Fenders during this point in time to allow the rebuild to occur.

There are people who collect instruments from certain Japanese factories because of the quality of the wood and craftsmanship building those guitars.

Rip-off? This implies the brands were innocent victims in the degrading of their own product, in fact the copies acted as a place holder for the brands in the guitar market and even gave Fender the opportunity to play the same game with their Squier brand. It is good to realise that the money made by the Squier brand has built the Fender Custom shop, is it self sustaining? Of course, would it have happened if Fender hadn't the initial cash? Of course not.

Furthermore, if you dislike PRS building Strat style instruments, please feel free to extend your derision to Suhr, Charvel, Nash and all the other brands that have done so, and don't forget to pile on criticism of Fender's set neck instruments too.
Personally I think anything PRS does is well engineered and manufactured, irrespective of how anyone "feels" about the brand.
I think you may have read too much into my comment(s) on this.

I use the term 'rip-off' in its plain everyday sense and attach no significant judgement value to it at all. If you see the latest Toyota and it looks like last year's Rolls Royce you don't say it's not a ripoff because there's a gap in the market for cheaper Rolls Royces that do 500k and don't die.
So, whatever the history you can't deny that from an IP point of view those other guitars are rip-offs, and that's the dimension I was curious about.

Outside of that I really couldn't care about the issue; it is what it is. And as for those other manufacturers you invite me to extend my non-existent derision to, my natural conservatism and laziness combine to ensure I will never go out of my way to try one but if it happens and I get a good one I'm more than happy to be honest about that and not care what it looks like :)

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Fuckin ... yeah righto
Let’s not do that again
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Any updates? Hehe. Watching this closely.

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"Shipped from the Global Shipping Center to International Destination"

Pitney Bowes Global Shipping program.....needs to circumnavigate the world a few times at great expense before landing in little old NZ

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Pitney Bowes ...the words send shivers down my spine.
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opsguy wrote:"Shipped from the Global Shipping Center to International Destination"

Pitney Bowes Global Shipping program.....needs to circumnavigate the world a few times at great expense before landing in little old NZ
Always exciting to have something on the way. Have Rockshop brought any in yet? Haven't seen them if they have.

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The wait is torturing me. Haha

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Molly wrote:
opsguy wrote:"Shipped from the Global Shipping Center to International Destination"

Pitney Bowes Global Shipping program.....needs to circumnavigate the world a few times at great expense before landing in little old NZ
Always exciting to have something on the way. Have Rockshop brought any in yet? Haven't seen them if they have.
I'm sure if Rockshop has 1 it will be gone in seconds even when the price is x2. Hehe

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it has arrived
first impressions...very nice guitar. Gig bag well made, headstock protector a nice touch. Neck is very comfortable, it's chunky and fills your hand. Really well built, can't fault it at all. so far so good. Date of manufacture: 6 June.
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Huh, it has a scarf
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