Fender American Standard Stratocaster – Olympic White

I was drooling over one of those in a guitar center a couple weeks ago, but my girlfriend dragged me away before I could try it... Very pretty tho

 

Never Ever let your girlfriend go with you into a music store...............lol..........give her a few bucks and tell her to go shopping.....doh....

 

Now that she plays bass, no longer sure how effective that would be....

 

Dude .....your fooked...LOL

 

I think Olympic White is my favourite too.

 

I had one for a while. I loved the sound of it. Really well-made and great-sounding guitar.

What I couldn't deal with was the neck. The shoulders had some outward flare instead of turning perpendicular to the fingerboard, and I couldn't get used to it. I play with my thumb over a lot and it just pushed in the wrong places. It was good enough that I considered changing the neck, but that's a lot of money to completely devalue a pretty pricey guitar, so I ended up selling it.

It did have a great throaty sound and the modern trem worked better and had better sustain and tuning characteristics (IMO) than the vintage style.

P.

 

Thanks guys for all the replays! Lots of nice info shared.