Gibson fanboy when asked if he'd play a strat

Sérgio

Sérgio

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I’m an admitted Gibson fanboy, but I’ve owned lots of Strats over the years and at times favored them for wat I was doing at the time. Lately they don’t work for me but I won’t say I’ll never have another.
 
Seriously, I was reading a thread in another board and laughing.

This dude was stating that strats had serious "design flaws" (?!!!) such as screws on the saddles (lone day you'll have to earn how to play guitar without having to rest your hand on the brigde, man!), volume knob placement (It does take some time to adapt but it's NOT a flaw, it's there for quick volume swells and control, duh), bad switch position (uhm, just like virtually ANY other guitar model except for Les Pauls and one or two other models)...

Then I remembered this meme.
 
YEs Paul was making custom by hand one offs--- but the company and his ICONIC designs --- and Maple bodies??? -- sure look alot like a Gibbo Victory----


I do dislike the Volume knob placement ---- on a Strat but thats easily remedied----and not a deal breaker ----

I have owned quite a few over the years.....
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eSGEe said:
I do dislike the Volume knob placement ---- on a Strat but thats easily remedied----and not a deal breaker ----
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Like I said, it takes some time to adapt if you're coming from other guitar shapes (I myself found it funny at first) but it's there for a reason, it's just a matter of learning how to use it...
 
Sérgio said:
Like I said, it takes some time to adapt if you're coming from other guitar shapes (I myself found it funny at first) but it's there for a reason, it's just a matter of learning how to use it...
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I don’t mind the placement as much as not having a tone control for the bridge pickup. And not a fan of the single master volume, but these are things you can adapt to or change.

If there is anything I really dislike about bolt-neck guitars it’s the lack of neck angle.
 
gball said:
I don’t mind the placement as much as not having a tone control for the bridge pickup. And not a fan of the single master volume, but these are things you can adapt to or change.

If there is anything I really dislike about bolt-neck guitars it’s the lack of neck angle.
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Another thing that only needs some adaptation... Some use the middle pickup instead of rolling down a tone knob for the bridge, others buy strats with a Delta tone system (or rewire them like that), i.e. they do have a tone knob for the bridge :D
 
gball said:
I don’t mind the placement as much as not having a tone control for the bridge pickup. And not a fan of the single master volume, but these are things you can adapt to or change.

If there is anything I really dislike about bolt-neck guitars it’s the lack of neck angle.
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Agreed...I added a tone control control to the bridge of my old Strat years ago, along with Lawrence's 220k ohm bleed on the bridge....shimming the necks are a PITA, IMHO...
 
gball said:
I don’t mind the placement as much as not having a tone control for the bridge pickup. And not a fan of the single master volume, but these are things you can adapt to or change.

If there is anything I really dislike about bolt-neck guitars it’s the lack of neck angle.
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My Strat has a tone control for the bridge. Some Strat models are wired so that if any combination with the bridge pickup is selected, the lower tone control affects the bridge.
 
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