Heavy Jack

Fender Strats are the guitar IMO.

Dr_Rez

The boring guitar.

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Thrice

Its like the Honda Civic. Boring plain, but fun as hell to trick out.

I have to go with Martin & Co. for acoustic, Gibson for electric. Those are loose favorites though, each guitar has such unique sound.

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Dr_Rez

I was actually just needlessly bashing it. I used to own a strat and there fantastic and well playing iconic guitars.

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mr dave

and i'll cut off my balls with rusty scissors before giving up my strat hehehe

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Dr_Rez

Turns out I have some rusty scissors! In all seriousness though strats rule. No guitar can sound like a strat but a strat. Now im not talking hss, or any other combination just sss like the good old days.

You could always stick a tunomatic/fixed bridge on there. But im definitely inclined to think that there is some small tonal difference between the types as well.

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i'll try to take pics of how my bridge is setup this weekend. i'm not sure which one will make GB flip more the rust / grime or the cardboard hahaha

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Farfisa

I constantly get people that don't play guitar to tell me how much I suck for not getting a strat... I don't like them I don't give a fuck who has played them. I like playing guitar because it's fun, not because I want to be a fucking rockstar. Praise deserves to go towards the telecaster as it has been around for 60 years and despite how many variations there are you can still get a good old tele for cheap.

Thrice

The basis on which you dis strats seems to be the basis of which you like testes, I mean teles.

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telepicker

I'm a Tele guy, through an through (no, the board handle isn't just clever)

my biggest bitch about the Strat isn't anything described above - they play great, sound great, and when they're intonated properly, you beat them lime a $10 whore and they will stay in tune...

But that volume/gain knob...is in the WORST position on the body.

I get to flailing away, and -whoop!- brushed my pinky against that knob, and the tone is gone...or there's no sound altogether.

That being said, Strats rule, (the bridges do suck, though - my Tele has a six-saddle through-body) especially for live work, because they take so much abuse.

Schecters...meh.

They're like PRS to me - way overhyped and pretty generic, at the end of the day. I mean, they LOOK cool, and they're pretty, and they play nice...but they don't have a very "edgy" sound. They're like cookie cutter guitars to me. No personality.