r/Stratocaster

It was marked as a “Partscaster” 🤷🏻‍♂️
It came with American fender tuners. The bridge isn’t marked with any indication. I know some saddles say fender, but these don’t. Body looks and feels to spec. It’s pretty beat up, which doesn’t bother me, and the bridge pickup won’t raise up. I like my bridge pickup decently high on my strats. Tone wise, it’s good. Sounds like a Strat. It sounds great with fuzz and distortion as well.

I’m not sure how much to tell of the 30 year story of this guitar. Bought it in the mid 90’s in my early 20’s after seeing a documentary on TV about the Stratocaster. If I remember right it was $289. Played it in a hard rock band I was in at the time. Put some Lace Sensors in it. Kind of fell off playing it around 2000 and it started collecting dust.

About six years ago, I decided to put David Gilmour EMG electronics in it. Played it a bit but it didn’t really click.

Since then I’ve been playing guitar more and more, up to 10-20 hours a week for the past few years. And have been really figuring out that love a good tremolo arm. I have multiple guitars with trem arms that I love. But only recently I found the tremolo arm for this old girl and HOLY SHIT I love the way this thing feels and plays. The range is incredible. They really got it right with this old design.

And the EMGs are pretty awesome as well. I realized that they are kind of too punchy and in your face for clean playing, they sound best when given a light growl. The Klone I have from Noise Space Audio is freaking perfect. I go Cali76 compressor, Klone, slapback delay, into the Deluxe Reverb, freaking amazing. I’m playing it more now than I play all my other (some much more valuable) guitars put together.

Hello! I recently installed these Fender ‘59 pickups and as for which one for neck, middle and bridge position, being vintage non reversed Stratocaster pickups I guess it should not matter right ? I measured and put the one with the highest resistance in the bridge position. But the bridge is very thin sounding, not bad at all but a huge difference from the mid and neck. The neck pickup is very high mid and the neck is very deep/bass heavy, should I have gone with the positions they were put in the box ?

I changed the pick guard and I think it looks even better! Also ft. My Yamaha LL16M and A replica Martin John Mayer OM45