My blind hate of strats

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...food is disgusting :P uggh, that pic has me ruined for days... if only it was a face eating tumor.
 
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Tha Stratocaster to me is like the Ford Explorer of guitars:

Nobody's going to be drooling too hard over your everyday run-o-the-mill Stratocaster

Everyone's got one - you do, I do, your grandma, the homies on the block, the high school kids, rednecks, richies, po folk, everybody's got one.

What it comes down to though is that even though debatably not the most stylish car in the world, they do a lot of things really **** well.

You can take the boss out to lunch and have him complement the nice leather interior and great factory sound.

You can pull a 4000 lb boat from here to grandma's house without pinching any holes in the seat

You can throw chainsaws, diesel fuel, foosball tables, your signed basketball collection, whatever you want in the back

You can put 7 adults in it and go to the theater

You can throw it in low range and climb right up the hill at the farm, even if it's been raining

You can cruise down the interstate at 82mph like you're riding on a cloud, and still be able to hear the speakerphone in your cup holder

See where I'm going with this...?

Strat to me means "I don't care if everyone has one, they're boring, or not the coolest looking or most expensive thing out there, it does me for what I do, and it picks up what I'm puttin' down."

Love,
Hunter
 
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P.S. I don't own an Explorer, I have an equally boring ride though.

I have simply witnessed the unbounded versatility of the Explorer and was impressed enough by it to write about it on an internet guitar pickup forum.

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lol The Explorer's are great cars. In high school my best friend had a '95, with a cowcatcher on front. We would wreak havoc with that thing, love tapping friends and running stuff over. Being real jackasses.

God I miss high school.
 
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HotSEXJ said:
P.S. I don't own an Explorer, I have an equally boring ride though.

I have simply witnessed the unbounded versatility of the Explorer and was impressed enough by it to write about it on an internet guitar pickup forum.

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Even after reading the post before it, I thought you were talkin about Gibson Explorers...x.x time for me to get off the forum...

And Bi Gal Big Bird, WHAT DID YOU DO TO THAT WOMAN'S FACE?!!
 
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i love strats

know why?

cause they're meant to be workhorse guitars

you can play a set with hard rock, jazz, blues, bop, whatever, use however many amps you want, but you know that strat with the right electronics will be the only guitar you'll need

break something? who cares, <5 minutes to fix anything

and lastly, it's a lot harder to make a gibson sound like a fender than it is to make a fender sound like a gibson
 
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drew_half_empty said:
i love strats

know why?

cause they're meant to be workhorse guitars

you can play a set with hard rock, jazz, blues, bop, whatever, use however many amps you want, but you know that strat with the right electronics will be the only guitar you'll need

break something? who cares, <5 minutes to fix anything

and lastly, it's a lot harder to make a gibson sound like a fender than it is to make a fender sound like a gibson
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I've never been able to get a decent jazz tone out of a strat.....
 
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drew_half_empty said:
not even a HH or HSH strat with new pickups?
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I haven't really tried those. I never really cared enough to actually try an upgraded one out. I'd rather get a semi-hollow or a jazz box. strats are workhorses, I'll give you that. I don't think they would do the jazz tone very well. If you have proof otherwise, I'm all ears....
 
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The best Strat I ever played was an ESP... the best Strat I own is a MIJ Squier with a 24.75" scale...

That said, a stock Ibanez Roadstar II will out Strat a Strat and even come close to Gibson territory... Must be why I own 7 of them, no Gibsons and rarely touch my Strats...
 
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I certainly didn't buy a strat because it's 'the face of rock n' roll' nor did I buy one because all of my favourites play one, as a matter of fact, most of my favourite guitarists play mahogany HH guitars of some kind (whether Gibson, PRS, etc).

I bought it, because I went into a guitar store, played most of the guitars they had there, and it was the singular one that I truly meshed with, the tone was the tone in my head, it felt amazing in my hands, the wood was amazingly resonant, it's all I ever wanted. And hell, if I get bored of it's single coil tone? I'll add in a P90 or Humbucker instead. I can play anything with a strat, any kind of music, from jazz to metal, and it will do it convincingly.

PS- Jazz tone is subjective. Many players have just been copying the old Wes Montgomery-turn-tone-to-zero schtick, but you can just as easily play it with a bright, clear, tone. Jazz is in the technique, not the tone.

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Timmy thats a gorgeous finish Tobacco with very subtle esthetic touch of red burst .... mmmm
 
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BigAlTheBird said:
Yeah Hebrew Nationals are by far the best.
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Hell yes they are. That's all I will ever buy. They actually go to the ends of the bun. It's like Oscar Meyer never figured that out.

Hebrew National beef knockwursts are pretty good too, if you can get over the little fact that they're the same approximate size, shape, and color of an erect male member in your mouth.
 
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I've played various low to mid end LPs and SGs (and the like) and they all left me with the same feeling. That is, I can tell how they can be great in the right hands but every single time I re-affirm that those are not mine. When I pick up a Strat of any kind however (all superstrats sign here) I feel right at home.

Some fit more than others, some (usually Ibanezs) feel awful no matter how much I try not to, others feel heavenly (never a Fender's Strat but many others have). I LOVED a Vigier Excalbur Indus, most Carvins I put my hands to, a Schecter Hellraiser (this has just GOT to be my next guitar) while the simplest of Washburns and Jacksons just clicked without making the slightest effort.

Unless you've tried every Strat variant you simply cannot write them off without deliberately keeping yourself blind to the simple truth:
Strats can be made to suit anything and anyone. A stock strat will be a blah thing only as long as you don't realize that the stock condition is the starting point for building the guitar of your dreams.

The same can't be said for LPs, SGs or any other Gibson-type guitar.
These will either fit or they won't. You can try all you want to get it more to your needs but the more you do, the less LP/SG/anything it will be.

A modded gibson-type guitar will just be a bastardized guitar.
A modded strat will simply be a unique Strat...
 
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KeeperOS said:
Unless you've tried every Strat variant you simply cannot write them off without deliberately keeping yourself blind to the simple truth:
Strats can be made to suit anything and anyone. A stock strat will be a blah thing only as long as you don't realize that the stock condition is the starting point for building the guitar of your dreams.

A modded strat will simply be a unique Strat...
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Well, the Strat and it's myriad of variants are flexible due to their modular nature, but I think it might be painting with too broad a brush to just say "if you don't like them, you haven't played enough of them."

Some people just don't like 25.5" scale, or don't like maple necks, or don't like bolt-on guitars in general.

It's also kind of hard to assert TOO much flexibility and still call something a strat.

If you built a Warmoth with a mahogany body, TOM bridge, short-scale pau ferro neck, and put humbuckers in it, can you still call it a Strat? The line gets pretty blurry pretty fast.
 
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