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[Ironbird13]

more pics here... http://ilovefuzz.com/viewtopic.php?f=149&t=17572

[fendersilver]

Fender thin-skin '62 Stratocaster is my main fuzz axe. It has a really fat tone to it and with the right amp and a good
pedal you can really dial this guitar in to achieve a great blues or blues/rock tone. It just feels good in my hands.

[madmax1012]

Fender thin-skin '62 Stratocaster is my main fuzz axe. It has a really fat tone to it and with the right amp and a good
pedal you can really dial this guitar in to achieve a great blues or blues/rock tone. It just feels good in my hands.

i hear ya man. as much as i love my tele, no guitar i've ever played feels as good as my 2007 american standard strat. it's the one

[hbombgraphics]

Nice strat: All strats should have 21 frets and bent steel saddles

[warwick.hoy]

Nice strat: All strats should have 21 frets and bent steel saddles

This may be blasphemy but I'm not a Strat fan. They sound fine,....but I'm just not into them. That is not to say I don't like Fender,....I love Jags and Stangs, JMs and I love me some Telecasters. Gotta give up to Leo for inventing the Precision and the Jazz Bass.

[hbombgraphics]

Yeah they aren't for everybody but it is pretty much all I have ever played.

I get into this argument all the time: I have a friend who has Pauls, and hates strats.

[warwick.hoy]

Don't get me wrong,...I'm not hatin,....they are just ubiquitous and for good reason.

I'd take an ES-335 or a sweet old Cherry SG (small PG with factory Bigsby) over a Les Paul. And a Tele over a Strat.

[madmax1012]

Don't get me wrong,...I'm not hatin,....they are just ubiquitous and for good reason.

I'd take an ES-335 or a sweet old Cherry SG (small PG with factory Bigsby) over a Les Paul. And a Tele over a Strat.

i'd take a bunch of things over a les paul. Too heavy, and I'm not a small dude. I like how they sound, but I like SG's much more. My friend has an Epi les paul custom, and it's a nice guitar, but i'm also not as fond of the clean tone. he says the same thing. it's very "chunky". when we have random stoned reggae jams, it doesn't really fit in. tis a shame.

[eatyourguitar]

if you get a nice LP with the right pickups, you have no problem playing clean jazz or reggae. I once hated strats for all the same reasons, too popular, bolt-on, plastic top, I dont like trems. but then I traded my first guitar in for the 96 strat I have now. thin neck and the sound of 90's rock. I took the wammy bar off and now its fucking sick. so hate + time = love when talking strats. at least for me anyway.

[hbombgraphics]

if you get a nice LP with the right pickups, you have no problem playing clean jazz or reggae. I once hated strats for all the same reasons, too popular, bolt-on, plastic top, I dont like trems. but then I traded my first guitar in for the 96 strat I have now. thin neck and the sound of 90's rock. I took the wammy bar off and now its fucking sick. so hate + time = love when talking strats. at least for me anyway.

Probably the best part of strats is the options available. And the cheap things you can do to tweak them

Mine all have 5 springs bridge buckers no trem bars and a bunch of other stuff, they are a great canvas.

I guess a LP is too but I would feel more guilty about messing up the finish,

[warwick.hoy]

I could be satisfied with a Gold Top LP with P90s.

I like the chunkier necks that you'll typically find on MIM Standard Teles,...I like a pretty hard flat picking style when I play geetar. Raking across each string for a chord instead of just aggressively strumming it out. A Tele with the right gauge strings and slightly high (but not too high) action suits that style well.

I think Teles make for some decent mods as well. I still really want to get a Squier Tele Custom and replace the humbuckers with some Gibson P94s. Maybe put a higher quality PG on it. I've seen one Squier Tele Custom that was used and the PG was all warped (could have been a result of a hackneyed re-installation).

I talk all this shit but I'm really a bassist first; so my opinion on guitars is what it is.

Honestly though,....give me any guitar or bass and a little time with it and I'll find it's voice.

[hbombgraphics]

Bassists can be objective about guitar tone: It's easier to know if other peoples kids are ugly.

I love tele mods: Although i started out by butchering one, cut the bridge down and routed it with a dremel: Still play it and once in a while I go back and clean up some of my past bad work. It is an HSH with the 4th and 2nd positions out of phase: Great guitar

[coldbrightsunlight]

I love how strats sound and I've wired a couple up for friends with some mods, and the versatility is amazing. I've just never played one that felt that nice and I don't like the tremolos that much. I'm sure I'll find one that plays just right someday, because I do love the sound and it's easy enough to tighten the trem till it's basically fixed or swap out the bridge. I could definitely get along with a super-customised strat.

I could be satisfied with a Gold Top LP with P90s.

I like the chunkier necks that you'll typically find on MIM Standard Teles,...I like a pretty hard flat picking style when I play geetar.

I think Teles make for some decent mods as well. I still really want to get a Squier Tele Custom and replace the humbuckers with some Gibson P94s. Maybe put a higher quality PG on it. I've seen one Squier Tele Custom that was used and the PG was all warped (could have been a result of a hackneyed re-installation).

I talk all this shit but I'm really a bassist first; so my opinion on guitars is what it is.

Honestly though,....give me any guitar or bass and a little time with it and I'll find it's voice.

LP with P90s , and teles with fat necks rule.

[univalve]

For me the strat sounds too nice. I have One and like it but i miss the edge. Tele, jm, sg etc. have more of an edgy character to me.

[Zounds Perspex]

I love my Strat, but it has to really be set up correctly and some mods are needed for most Strats for me to be happy.
I don't like the quacky Strat sounds, but a good Strat neck pickup sound is something special.
Wire the bridge pickup to a tone control and I dig that sound as well.
It took me a long time to come around...and a bad Strat is just the worst...but a good one is something special.
By contrast, almost any Tele is fun to play.