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when i went shopping for a strat, i wanted a brand new sunburst strat like i had always admired. i tested a bunch of strats but to my big dissapointment, there was no real click in sound, playability and tone.......... they looked great though.
just when i was about to leave the store without a purchase, i saw a beat up white strat standing behind the glass. i though it was a special one from someone famous (it was really used...) and that it was not for sale.. but i asked, and they said it was for sale and asked me if i would like to give it a try. i did, and then it happened.. love at first chord... it was the G-chord... just a simple chord. but i thought angels were pissing in my ear.
i bought it together with a blues junior. It turned out to be a heavily customised 25th anniversary strat. the Pickups are Seymour Duncan SS-1 i found out later (bridge is a little humbucker), the neck was replaced, the color was painted over (though you can still see the silver paint coming through the new paint because of the heavy use. It belonged to a local professional guitar player that had a stroke the year before...and had to sell his equipment.
later i called the guy. turns out that he's playing again (had to learn from scratch..) and that he still remembers the guitar. he just forgot the customisation.. and how long it was ago..
i just got it back from the repairshop. new frets, new nut, and the wires are checked everywhere.
it even sounds better than it allready did.
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