SDUG ULTIMATE AXE - Category 2; Fender Strats

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Since I saw another HM, I thought I would throw mine in. I mean, it is a Fender. :naughty:
 
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I like them all - Don't think I will be able to vote. They're all great.

Is mine the only hardtail on the forum? Figured I'd see a R. Cray or two.
 
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My workhorse battle-scarred Creamy. Body is 1986 MIJ 72RI, which was a massive bargain due to the damage. Neck is 1984 MIJ 62RI, also nicely weathered. I had to convert the body to four hole to accommodate the neck. It has the ultimate (IMO, of course) Strat pickup combo: SSL-1, SSL-1, SSL-5t. I wanted a '62 look for this one so I went with parchment covers and knobs on a mint guard. I am pondering doing a refin to surf green someday, but we'll see.

This baby was used extensively on the Coloured Animal album and can be seen in our video for Protest the Sky (along with a long-haired fatter version of me). People seem to assume I recorded that track with a LP, but it was all Creamy. Her tone is amazing.
 
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Rather - you went all Hendrix up on that? Cool....
 
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I see maybe 12 players here. Surely we can do better than that!?!?!?!?!
 
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Here's my entry! My MIM '95 Fender Standard Stratocaster. Restyled a bit and loaded w/Seymour Duncan Antiquity HBs
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This and is my submission into the contest. Its a Lake Placid Blue Fender Dlx. Powerhouse Strat body, Licensed by Fender neck ( neck says Fender, but on the heel) , Active pickups.;

EDIT_ I have renamed my Strat. Its official name now is "MAX", as in - 'THE BLUE MAX'

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Love Ka-Bluey and the HM Strats. I might have to take some new pics of my orange sparkle Strat for submission.
 
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1966. Laminate Rosewood neck. Craquelure psychedelic paint job done in the '70's by an unknown assailant. Now sporting a Duncan Antiquity in the treble position. At least the other two PUPs seem to be orig.

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OMFG...what that might be worth sans the paint job!

Oh well. If she sounds righteous, rock on.
 
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OMFG...what that might be worth sans the paint job!

Oh well. If she sounds righteous, rock on.

I bought it for $732 in 1996 (you read that right, $732). Serial number is 174872 on the 4-bolt plate. A guy at the store told me just the plate would be worth that much now. Even in it's "messed with" condition, it's the best sounding Strat I've ever owned.
 
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my 2011 Fender American Standard. 7.7 lbs, 2 piece hard ash body. Rosewood board with a satin finished neck back with gloss peghead. 2 pt trem with the "increased mass" block fender began using recently. This is when fender also started using the "thinner finish undercoat" on american standards. has the no load tone control on the bridge pickup.

Pickups are scatterwound Chris Klein S-7 pickups which are supposedly reverse engineered from the set on the Fender CS Eric Johnson strat. Warm and chimey across the board.
right now I have it wired funny. I've switched the middle to the bridge and left the bridge in the middle but disconnected. I wanted a little less kerrang! so yeah now I have the two ~5.6K-ish alnico 3 pickups in the bridge and neck and the switch wired to give me the neck and bridge sound which is... delicious.

She's on the warmer smokier side of strats. I love that but sometimes I miss the alder/maple neck combo that I had been accustomed to. Anyways here's my crappy iphone pic :)

 
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my 2011 Fender American Standard. 7.7 lbs, 2 piece hard ash body. Rosewood board with a satin finished neck back with gloss peghead. 2 pt trem with the "increased mass" block fender began using recently. This is when fender also started using the "thinner finish undercoat" on american standards. has the no load tone control on the bridge pickup.

Pickups are scatterwound Chris Klein S-7 pickups which are supposedly reverse engineered from the set on the Fender CS Eric Johnson strat. Warm and chimey across the board.
right now I have it wired funny. I've switched the middle to the bridge and left the bridge in the middle but disconnected. I wanted a little less kerrang! so yeah now I have the two ~5.6K-ish alnico 3 pickups in the bridge and neck and the switch wired to give me the neck and bridge sound which is... delicious.

She's on the warmer smokier side of strats. I love that but sometimes I miss the alder/maple neck combo that I had been accustomed to. Anyways here's my crappy iphone pic :)


Is that a heritage cherry or sienna sunburst?
 
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Since I saw another HM, I thought I would throw mine in. I mean, it is a Fender. :naughty:[/QUOTE]

Very nice :D:D:D

What pickups do you have in it. I think I can make out 2 Fast Tracks?
 
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1966. Laminate Rosewood neck. Craquelure psychedelic paint job done in the '70's by an unknown assailant. Now sporting a Duncan Antiquity in the treble position. At least the other two PUPs seem to be orig.

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There may be another category for this later.... If you don't make it in this one, stay cool.
 
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