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I overheard some of the cool kids talking in the hall the other day. Evidently there's a Strat body shape production variant that appeared back in...

I must confess to a rather ugly bigotry. I have never had much regard for Japanese Stratocasters. I'm not sure why, probably just because the...

I was working on a much more comprehensive report. But after my ever evolving and embiggening draft had been dutifully saved from session to...

The place I used to work sold a lot of stuff overseas. We really catered to the crowd, and would routinely make all the controls and warning...

How many more Custom Shop certificates would still be with their guitars if Fender pulled their head out and made the document a size and/or shape...

There’s one for sale not real far from me. Looks like some kind of custom built vintage Strat, not a real Fender.

Started looking for this fifteen years ago. A 1986 American Standard Stratocaster. My least favorite color, but groveling, gutter-licking beggars...

I don’t know how many of these and similar limited special runs Fender made. The silver sparkle American Designer Edition I bought new at Guitar...

I was doing a little research for insurance valuations on my hoard earlier. Blue book figures can be useful, but I like to look around for actual...

...op for a Gibson! I'm in that mood, but I can't find the Strat I want, (a 1986 American Standard) and I haven't bought a Gibson in ages. Might...

I suppose there’s some kind of reason why I do these things. I can’t afford the kind of care required to diagnose it though. Does anyone else...

Humidity in the house has been consistently too low, had to crank up the humidifiers. Nighttime temps are low enough to need some heat in the...

Among other good songs, an interesting take on the Stones. [MEDIA]

[ATTACH] Funky! Never saw one of these before.

I made this spider web out of string back in 1970 or so. It wasn’t made very well, I didn’t intend for it to be removable. But I did manage to...

You see that kind of thing in movies a lot. But I've not seen it in real life very often. I knew a few people who quit once and came back, but...

[ATTACH] My first Stratocaster. Paid $375 back when it was only a year or two old. Didn’t get any history with it, and was too stupid to ask for...

I always liked the Marx Brother's line something to the effect of - "I refuse to belong to any club, whose standards are so low, that they would...

Although my main quest here at Strat-Talk has so far not yielded results, I have been picking up a lot of new information about various and sundry...

You see a lot of stories about, or offers for, trading one guitar for another around here. Or some kind of music gear for a guitar anyway. Anyone...

I've got a Les Paul Recording model that needs a real Gibson case. The Recording body is a little wider than the regular Les Pauls. It will fit in...

And it really sucks! I quit on them three times, but I spent many years working for a biomedical research laboratory equipment manufacturer. I've...

So I've got this forty year old Strat, and it's disgustingly clean and shiny and new looking. You look at it and get no appreciation of how old it...

So I bought a Squier Bullet Mustang for a guitar-curious niece a while ago. I thought it was a pretty well made little guitar for that price. I...

Okay, so Fender got sold without the factory in the mid 80s. When they got the new factory up and running in 1986, the Standard Strat had some new...