I think it's pretty cool that the Mexican women who wind for Fender end up having their first names become status symbols. Abby and Jozefina pickups demand a premium on the market.
Ah, junior members bearing incredible deals. Balancing temptation with due diligence requires discipline for sure - but the downside can certainly be costly.
All of these questions and many more related ones have been answered on this forum for years and years. My advice is to get comfortable and start reading.
This is as good as a Strat gets as far as I'm concerned (I think it's the eighth one I've owned) and I'm still not crazy about it. I'm just not a Fender guitar guy. Really nice, though - I wish I did love it.
I did a speaker swap and found a spider that had apparently been living inside my *closed back* cab for quite some time. This raised two important questions:
1. WTF was he eating in there?
2. He's gotta be deaf, right?
@thefishingline I just tried to PM you but can't. When was this guitar routed for humbuckers? Was the pick guard on there now originally cut for P-90s and re-cut for HBs?
Ronnie Montrose laid down some killer riffs on his '58 Burst on this album:
He gets shoeboxed for being heavily Page influenced, but his playing on this record lays the foundation for the birth of hair metal some 20 years later. Motley Crue, Cinderella, Great White, Poison, Badlands etc. -...