My #1 just turned 31, and it’s as extraordinary as ever. Still plays and sounds like a dream!
‘89 Deluxe American Standard
My #1 just turned 31, and it’s as extraordinary as ever. Still plays and sounds like a dream!
‘89 Deluxe American Standard
At what point does my 31 year old Strat become “vintage?”
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.
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison
At what point does my 31 year old Strat become “vintage?”
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.
"Live and learn and flip the burns"
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?
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.
At what point does my 31 year old Strat become “vintage?”
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.
"Live and learn and flip the burns"
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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"Do you call sleeping with a guitar in your hands practicing?"
"It is if you don't drop it."
- Trent Lane, Daria, Episode 1-2.
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.
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 ) for one.
"Live and learn and flip the burns"