She's here...

[Rain]

According to my Facebook memories, 10 years ago, to the day, I went to Sam Ash in NY to buy an inexpensive Strat with a humbucker as an ealy brirthday gift but walked out with an Epiphone les Paul. I'd been playing strats ever since I had bought a replacement for my first guitar, a uber cheap LP knock off. I didn't want to hear about Les Paul's anymore because I had dislike that first guitar so much.

The Epiphone made me realize how much I liked actually Les Paul's and how awesome they could be, and I ended up buying and playing mostly LPs and SGs for the next 10 years, including my main guitar, a white Gibson LP Studio.

Lately, I've been listening to a lot of Hendrix, Gilmour, SRV, and the likes, and I felt I really needed a new strat. The old 1996 would need new frets and a lot of TLC, and, a this time, it just seemed simpler to retire it, at least temporarily, and to get a new one.

And today, well, Mr. Fedex delivered this one. Just what the doctor ordered.  Plays like a dream. And so I finally got my early birthday strat, only 10 years later.

 

Edited June 28, 2022 by Rain

[Tim Smith]

Nice.

[Notes_Norton]

HNGD

[SteveStrummerUK]

I thought it would be black ?

[craigb]

11 minutes ago, SteveStrummerUK said:

I thought it would be black ?

Give it time to adjust and it will be!  ?

[Byron Dickens]

Sweet!

[jesse g]

Congratulations on the new acquisition Rain.  ??

 

 

[kennywtelejazz]

Hey Rain ! congratulations on getting your new  Fender Stratocaster .

I  see Bela Lugosi definitely approves of your choice to get the maple finger board ???

Kenny

[Tim Smith]

Can you comment on why you prefer the Strat over something like a Gibson?

For me, the pickups on any Gibson I've ever played were not the cleaner sound I was looking for. I like that body style as well.