Re: Would you call this a good deal
Posted: 15 Feb 2011, 12:54stratmantd wrote:Oops! I got the ebay things mixed up. I apologise to Stuart but I still think that the price is extremely high for a new guitar.
No. I do not have a re-issue model, I bought mine in 1976 when you could get a Fender Stratocaster guitar. No re-issue, no relic, no closet, no left in the bathroom to get warped, no MIM, MIC, CIJ, MIJ, etc.
I have no doubt that modern guitars play extrememy well in the right hands but I do not believe that it is a real re-issue unless it has all the "faults" that some people immediately "correct". Why would people go on and on about changing the pickups, replacing the tremelo unit, etc. if they want a carbon-copy of an old instrument? Let's be honest about it; if the pickups are changed then it is no longer the same as the original instrument.
Anyway, I thought that this site was supposed to be about the music; it seems to have become a discussion site regarding the rapidly increasing number of variations of basically the same guitar.
I've got a real one as well, a 1962, bought in 1981, out of the eight Strats' that I have collected it's possibly the worst one I own - the new ones are superior in every way. By the way, £1200 today is cheaper by comparison than what they cost in 1962.
