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Well my Stratocaster arrived yesterday via UPS. As I wrote in my “New Stratocaster” post, this was a bit of a spur of the moment purchase. I mean, I have been thinking about getting a guitar, and I have beenb leaning towards getting a Strat, but I wasn’t exactly planning on buying a guitar when I walked into the store…

At first it sounded like I was going to want to get an American Deluxe Stratocaster, since it had a humbucker pickup to go with the two single coil pickups. But I just liked the sound of the single coils better, so I started to lean more towards the American Standard Strat.

Then I tried out the Stevie Ray Vaughn Strat (with the “SRV") on the pick guard. I really liked the sound of that guitar, but the action was really high… and I am not much of a fan of high action on my guitars. I guess that Stevie Ray liked his action set up pretty high, so this guitar was true to the namesake, but that ain’t for me.

I suppose I could have had the action lowered, but I also really didn’t like that fancy pickguard… a little too fancy for someone like me who struggles to do ANYTHING on a guitar.

In any case, I ended up with the American Standard Strat, and it just showed up at my door - I didn’t want to carry it on the plane ride home, so I had them ship it for me. My Strat came all boxed up and bubble wrapped - and it was in its Fender hardshell case… everything was in perfect order when it showe up.

Stratocaster guitar,
electric guitar