Definitely a 2nd hand one!
these are wise, wise words. try to play a variety of strats, new and old, before you buy, so you can get a good feel for the difference of feel between even identical looking guitars.
yeah i see your point i can always change pups and hardware but if the neck and body are bad theres no point, okay my strat search starts tomorowDefinitely a 2nd hand one!
Strats are a strange phenomena.... The place it was built and price dont always correlate to the quality so its usually a good idea to play one first (although I took my chances with ebay - and a got a good one for cheap).
In my opinion (and please, if you guys disagree, then im all ears!) the most fundamental and important part of the guitar is the neck, if you have a good neck then you are 90% of the way to having a potentially great instrument. The next thing is the join of the neck to the body and the allignment of the bridge. If those 3 things are tip-top, then you can put what ever pick ups you like, change the bridge, tuners, respray - whatever.
If you buy the american standard/deluxe you're also getting some nice sounding pick ups and better quality hardware, so keep that in mind. I bought a Jap strat (from 89-90 ish I think) which has Grover tuners - far better than the stock Fender tuners found on the American strats, but the pick ups were average at best.
I guess you can see where I'm going with this one, they are all different.
But, if it WERE my money, id probably go to a store that deals in 2nd hand strats (as in a store that sells a lot of em) and find a nice player from the mid 90's. Should get one for about $1300. Spend the other $200 on mods if you want them, or shout your better half a nice dinner, movie and ....something that rhymes with hand bag
T-rex pedals are nuts. I tried the T-rex replica delay and it was nuts. Then i found the mad proffessor deep blue delay. so similar, and a price difference of like $150. Which ones did you try?
I hate companies that take boutique and use it as an excuse to charge ridiculous amounts.
Ok, just looked on the site, I'll try and remember the ones.
Hmm I run my Booster before my O.D pedal and I dont really get much volume boost when the O.D pedal is engaged. It does push it harder though resulting in bucket loads more sustain...
Hey, if you still have them in a month or two when I'm not dead broke (not kidding, bank account is in the negatives at the moment) I'll probably take them off your hands.
Bass might be different though... longer neck/heavier etc
Check that the string isn't bent. My guitar had that problem and it was just a bent string.
Okay, just had a play around, Dad helped, he held down above the string on the nut and it didn't buzz.. Nut problem then?
Does it only buzz on a certain fret, or in a certain area over a small number of frets? If your string is bent, pressing the fret will cause the bent part to touch the fret somewhere else on the string. E.G my D string was bent around the 4th fret, and when I tried playing the first fret, it would buzz like crazy because pressing down on one spot would press the bent part down onto another fret.