My #1 just turned 31, and it’s as extraordinary as ever. Still plays and sounds like a dream!
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‘89 Deluxe American Standard
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My #1 just turned 31, and it’s as extraordinary as ever. Still plays and sounds like a dream!
https://i.postimg.cc/rpPPP4rK/04-A3-...-E4-DD7662.jpg
‘89 Deluxe American Standard
Very nice. Black is just a classy color on a strat.
When did you put in the Lace Sensors? I used them and was "meh" about them, but I listen to stuff I recorded with them, and they sound great really.
I didn’t put them in. The Lace Golds came stock on the guitar. When I got this, my only reference point for pickups was my previous guitar, an Aria Pro II RS Wildcat. Needless to say, the Lace Sensors were a big step up!Quote:
Originally Posted by ch willie
That's a series of guitars I just LOVE.
I had a Strat Plus with Gold Lace sensors. I really liked the tone of the pickups but not a whole lot else about the guitar.
A couple years ago I built a partsocaster and got a loaded pickguard with Gold Lace. Last year I put a maple neck on the body and now it's my #1 Strat.
I’m curious what it was you didn’t like? Specific aspects of the model or more like simply not bonding with that specific guitar?Quote:
Originally Posted by DanTheBluesMan
I’ll admit to a bias for the Lace Sensors and the late 80s, early 90s American standards simply because this was my first really high quality guitar, so it became my reference point.
I wasn't a fan of the wilkinson roller nut or the locking tuners, to me they were solutions to problems I wasn't having. I also didn't bond with the neck profile. The problem could have been remedied by changing the neck but this was back in my pre-tinkering days. I didn't turned a screw on a guitar back then, never mind changing a part. It was also my one guitar at a time phase, and I was still searching for what I wanted.
Now I know better. If I don't like something, I'll change it. I also have embraced my inner guitar slut and have a bevy of guitars at my beck and call.
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Originally Posted by DanTheBluesMan
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Did you buy this guitar new? I bought a new Strat Plus in '88. It replaced an American Vintage '57 Reissue Strat that I was kind of a dog.
The Strat Plus in the blue one in this pic from '89.
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Originally Posted by Don
Purchased new in Jan. ‘91 when I was 20 and still going strong 30 years later.
Nice upholstery on that couch... :biglaugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Don
Not that I can talk much. The couch in my profile pic was a similar pattern but green. I think I threw a blanket over it to arrange the pic. That couch is now a par of furniture history.
The couch in my pic is long gone as well. I think it was a few couches ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by jrgtr42
I finally scrolled down far enough to find your introduction. I didn't see that your #1 didn't have the roller nut or locking tuners, the things that basically didn't endear my former Strat Plus to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jkbarnes
it's got me wondering if I can find one now. I'll be keeping an eye out (oof, pun not intended, as i have a prosthetic orb :D) for one.