heavydutysg135
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I just bought one of these guitars last night from guitar center on clearance. List price was arround 2500 and they were trying to sell the guitar on sale for 1500. They finally put the guitar on clearance for 700 and the deal was too good to pass up. My strat is the Series 1 which has 3 single coils with a tobaco sunburst and rosewood fingerboard as shown on the floyd rose website www.floydrose.com/redmodelone.html. I need more time before I can write an extensive review; however, I will say that this is one of the nicest sounding and playing strats that I have ever played. The pickups sound excellent, and the neck is perfect. The body is swamp ash and the guitar has excellent tone unplugged even with the floating floyd rose and 9s. I already have an esp with a floyd rose and I think that the new speedloader trem is a huge improvement in the design;however, I am not thrilled about the fact that you have to use their brand of strings. I am not sure if all guitar centers are putting these guitars on clearance but the guitar center in San Diego has another tobacco burst series 1 for 700 and a red series 2 with two humbuckers for 800. If you can get past the weird looking headstock (no tuners) then this is really a great deal. I am very excited to finally have a single coil guitar since all of my guitars have 2 humbuckers.
