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Well I have a new Stratocaster! I am not normally one to make impulse purchases, but I sure enjoyed making this purchase… a new American Standard Strat. You see, I have been thinking of buying an electric guitar for a long time. Almost since I bought my first guitar a year ago. But I never really got serious about it until…

I visited the largest guitar shop in the world (they claim to have 400 Fenders in stock… I didn’t count them, but there sure were a lot of Stratocasters up on those walls.) Let me back up a bit - last week I was in Las Vegas, hooking up with a bunch of buddies. It was actually something of a working trip - we did a lot of brainstorming about our businesses, and we also went out and had a crazy time each night. In any case, Las Vegas just happens to be the home of Ed Roman Guitars… and they have a rather wild web site that I first came across months ago.

So the short story is that I took a cab over there, walked in, and bought a Fender American Standard Stratocaster. The longer story is that the store is really cool - it is just huge, about twice the size of Guitar Center… and nothing but guitars (as opposed to Guitar Center, which also has drums and keyboards). The walls were lined with hundreds and hundreds of guitars.

I ended up hooking up with the manager their - Scott - who was very helpful. At first I thought I might want a Strat with humbucker pickups… so I was looking at the American Deluxe Strat with two single coils and one humbucker. But just like when I bought my acoustic, I went with what I thought sounded best, and I liked the sound of the single coils… so I went with the American Standard Strat.

The toughest part was picking out a color. The one I was playing was the Sunbust Strat. But I tend to be a pretty understated guy, so I thought I would like black or white better. So I picked black… of course, the next day I changed my mind and called up Scott and told him to send me the Sunburst.

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