Stratocasters

This is what the inside of our shed looks like at the moment.  Just thought you might like to see.

Last Friday Citilink delivered a brand new Japanese-made Fender Stratocaster in fiesta red (left-handed, of course) to my darling other half.  He had been so excited about it and couldn't wait to try it out.Excitement was short-lived, unfortunately, as it wasn't up to expectations!  It even looked different in several ways from the pictures the vendor had up in his on-line shop.    

                                                                                                                                                                        The reason for buying a new one was to improve the quality of sound from the top string, which, on his old, black, American-made guitar, seemed a bit thin.  On this new one the sound was even thinner!!!  So it has to go back.  Looking up the serial number on the neck of this guitar we find that it isn't even a newly-built instrument, but was made between 2000 and 2002!!  No wonder the strings and some of the chromium bits look a bit rusty!  I think it must have been hanging around in the warehouse for a few years not, as the man-in-my-life had been told, just come in.  So we are now awaiting the courier to return tomorrow to pick it up and take it back to Edinburgh.  Sad.  

We even went to Guitar Village in Farnham last Friday afternoon to see what they had to offer in left-handed Strats.  There seems to be one which boosts the volume and sound quality but it is hard to find in a left-handed version.  It is model S1 HSS and it has a Humbucker pick-up on the bridge and so boosts the sound.  They did say they would ring us on Monday to give us a price but so far we have had no call. 

 Anyway, here is a photograph of three Strats together.  The real red one is my brain-box son's, the black one is loved by the one and only m-i-m-l and the sort of coral pink is the new re-issue '57 one which is useless.