So, who wants to see Smitty's new Strat?

Robert Herndon said:
I like Tele's if properly equipped with '58 Les Paul neck and Humbuckers.
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My Tele, which I have fostered at the home of a friend for the near future
was made by Fender with a pair of "Wide Range" Humbuckers and a
Strat neck... so it's kind of a Factory made Frankencaster, a replica of what
the CBS Fender designers hoped would be the NBT of 1972. *laughs
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The Stratocaster kicked the snot out of the Les Paul guitar in the fifties...
Almost no one here is old enough to remember how electrifying it was to see Buddy Holly
play his Strat on the Ed Sullivan show in like 1957 or eight... I was like, nine or ten at the time
and couldn't believe my eyes and ears. It seemed like ALL other guitars became instantly
obsolete at that moment, including Gibsons.

Gibson's response of course, was the the Vee and the Explorer, which failed
in '59, only to succeed later. They were the left jabs from Gibson. The right cross
was the SG! And the SG was an instant success in '61 and grabbed back market
share for the Gibson company, prolly saved their bacon in those days of "guitar wars."
Les Pauls were discontinued due to lack of interest.

Meanwhile, the good ol' Telecaster kept on trucking' right along, making great music
during all this competition. So did Gretsch and Rickenbacker and other also-rans like
Mosrite and Vox etc. Telecasters have been making great music since like 1950 or so,
they've been mocked, they've been disregarded, they've been underestimated,
AND they've been ruthlessly copied... but
they've never gone out of production. Because guitarists keep buying them.
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Of course they do... because they make great music. It's as simple as that.
So as we happily hijack this so-called Stratocaster thread, we ought to remember
that the Telecaster came first and broke trail for the Strat, (which of course took over
and flattened everything, and then paved the place later.)

Y'all know I'm no purist. Take a squint at what I play for a Telecaster, and you can
see that in an instant. I favor unique instruments, and I don't want one guitar to sound
like another one. I'm for diversity at this university. We can rip up the college of musical
knowledge with rebellious guitar tones an I'll be happy to take part.
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So to do this I'll play a Tele that's wired exactly like a Gibson Les Paul, with a Strat neck
and a pair of Fender brand humbuckers designed by Seth Lover, and if that ain't
confusing enough to confound any critics, I'll have to go fetch my SG with the
mini hums.
 
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Col Mustard said:
My Tele, which I have fostered at the home of a friend for the near future
was made by Fender with a pair of "Wide Range" Humbuckers and a
Strat neck... so it's kind of a Factory made Frankencaster, a replica of what
the CBS Fender designers hoped would be the NBT of 1972. *laughs
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The Stratocaster kicked the snot out of the Les Paul guitar in the fifties...
Almost no one here is old enough to remember how electrifying it was to see Buddy Holly
play his Strat on the Ed Sullivan show in like 1957 or eight... I was like, nine or ten at the time
and couldn't believe my eyes and ears. It seemed like ALL other guitars became instantly
obsolete at that moment, including Gibsons.

Gibson's response of course, was the the Vee and the Explorer, which failed
in '59, only to succeed later. They were the left jabs from Gibson. The right cross
was the SG! And the SG was an instant success in '61 and grabbed back market
share for the Gibson company, prolly saved their bacon in those days of "guitar wars."
Les Pauls were discontinued due to lack of interest.

Meanwhile, the good ol' Telecaster kept on trucking' right along, making great music
during all this competition. So did Gretsch and Rickenbacker and other also-rans like
Mosrite and Vox etc. Telecasters have been making great music since like 1950 or so,
they've been mocked, they've been disregarded, they've been underestimated,
AND they've been ruthlessly copied... but
they've never gone out of production. Because guitarists keep buying them.
View attachment 34985
Of course they do... because they make great music. It's as simple as that.
So as we happily hijack this so-called Stratocaster thread, we ought to remember
that the Telecaster came first and broke trail for the Strat, (which of course took over
and flattened everything, and then paved the place later.)

Y'all know I'm no purist. Take a squint at what I play for a Telecaster, and you can
see that in an instant. I favor unique instruments, and I don't want one guitar to sound
like another one. I'm for diversity at this university. We can rip up the college of musical
knowledge with rebellious guitar tones an I'll be happy to take part.
View attachment 34986
So to do this I'll play a Tele that's wired exactly like a Gibson Les Paul, with a Strat neck
and a pair of Fender brand humbuckers designed by Seth Lover, and if that ain't
confusing enough to confound any critics, I'll have to go fetch my SG with the
mini hums.
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Its not that the Strat or Buddy Holly was anything super spectacular, it was just that he was widely publicized playing a Strat and he was hugely popular at that time.

I have my preferences, but I'll play anything as long as the money is good...

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eSGEe said:
Will the master cylinder from a 2001 Dodge Dakota work on a 2005?
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haha in my 20's n dirt poor. my 72 datsun 510 washer squirter bottle/pump either got a leak in it or the pump failed, I forget which. Somehow when I was working for the Porsche Audi dealer as a service writer, I would sometimes get to bring my car in and do things with the lift and other cool benefits of working at a real car shop. Anyhow, I managed to secure a thrown away washer bottle/pump assembly off a mid 80's Audi I scrounged from somewhere. Cobbed together a pumping setup that held water and then figured out a manner to attach it to the proper place in the DatSOON and yup, an 87 Audi Washer pump will fit in a 1972 Datsun car and gave me clean windshield for the next 6-7 years after that.
 
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