Favourite Guitar Brand? (blues, fan, quote, 1962, Guitars)

mr dave · 05-05-2010, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre

Stratocasters -

The bridge design is 6 screw vintage and it SUCKS. it locks at neither end, has more friction points than even a simple non locking design would need, the sustain block is too small, the bridge is mounted in the body with nothing more than wood screws. etc. oh, and the saddles are stamped steel, reducing the mass and weakening the bridge string body connection.

The jack is hideously placed and inconvenient, always pulls out etc.

The whole design is ridiculous. Only slightly more advanced than the tele, which pretty much exists only for the sake of being easily mass produced, as eveyone knows.

i agree with everything else you said but...

only a fool would buy a strat for the bridge as is, and as it is, it's really easy to block which improves stability and overall bridge strength. anyone who wants to seriously whammy on a strat (and do more than sound like a detuned Hendrix) should get a bridge made for it.

in over 15 years of owning a strat i've never once had the cable come out of the jack or found it inconvenient in anyway shape or form. then again i feed my cable around the strap peg. it results in the cable running down beside your leg instead of in front of it and in the odd case you do actually step on it, running the cable over the strap peg means it's pulling in a different direction and just eating up the slack leading to the input.

also can't agree on the design being ridiculous considering pretty much every other guitar model on the market rips it off. what else would you make it look like?