Conference napalm::guitar

    	A friend of mine owns the exact same guitar. His was modifyed with
    a SeymourDuncan  SH6  and 2 Classic Stacks. OOPs lets not forget the
    Floyd Rose.... He paid $600 for it used .  I wouldn't pay much more
    unless you have that overwelming compulsion to that without this guitar
    you will die ;^) I get these feelings very..verry...verry often.
    
    
    							Brian  
    
    	
    						

    Just keep in mind that you can buy a brand new American Standard
    Strat for ~$500.00 w/case.  The anniversaries may be seldom-seen,
    but they will never fetch the high prices paid for pre-CBS Strats.
    
    

    These are readily available from vintage dealers at $600-$675. There
    were quite a lot of them made.
    
    Danny W.

    Well, here's the sweet part about this "deal".  The owner of this baby
    is currently playing his Les Paul through *my* Kittyhawk M3, and he's
    about ready to put a lien on a testicle to buy it - so I told him I'd
    let it slip away for $450, and he said YEAH !!!  But, he wants to pay
    me a little each week until the $450 is paid - I'm not too crazy about
    that idea, but I *do* have possesion of the Strat in case of default. I
    might just offer him $100 and the Kitty and call it even - this guitar
    is in real good shape, but it's not mint by any means.  Can't let
    emotion overule good judgement here.  It's hard to do though ...
    
    Scary
    

    
    	Hey Jerry, I'll take 50 bucks not to show Rick your note!
    
    	;^)

    Rick already knows about the $200 investment in the Kitty - but he also
    knows he'd have to pay a LOT more for a comparable head, he's got no
    problem with that.  But, after playing this guitar all night at a gig,
    I'm convinced that even if he won't sell it - I gotta grab a another
    Start with stock everything.  This guitar has a few scratches and dents
    so I may be able to use that as a bargaining tool.  If not, I'll steal
    it .... 8^)  I may have to offer him a now (on the entire $450) or
    never deal so I can go buy a nice Strat.  
    
    Scary

    didn't you Oh Scary 1 have a strat-like instrument that you painted
    up like EvH's?
    
    I'm about to off my baretta because it's pretty weirded out and I 
    think I'd be alot happier with a Les Paul, but I'm not so sure.
    
    Do you know how Hendrix got such a sweet tone out of his Strat?
    Maybe those vintage limited-frequency range speakers?
    
    I almost croaked when I saw a vid of him playing a Gibson a couple of
    weeks ago on the Arts and Entertainment station, I never saw him with
    one of those.  Maybe a Flying V, good  Lord those things are a pain to 
    play!  

    Keep up your determination Jerry.  If you want to twang, you need a
    Strat or a Tele.  No offense, but the silver and gold anniversary
    models look puky to me.  Of course Pewter (*nothing* like "no sale
    silver") is cool.
    
    ;^)
    

    The color doesn't bother me but the "anniversary" logo does.  BTW,
    I offered Rick the Kitty M3 and $100 ... he's really thinking this one
    out.  He said I was welcome to play the guitar as long as I wanted,
    same offer I made him with the Kitty - but it's kinda like fooling
    around with someone else's wife .. the time does come when they have to
    go "home".  I don't want to get my heart broken !   8^)  All through
    our gig this weekend I was pointing at the guitar (during sets) and
    saying "$100 and it's mine, right ?".  He just laughed and it got to
    be a running joke.  Then at the end of the gig Saturday night, I went
    to shake his hand for a good performance this weekend ... he said, "I'm
    not shaking your hand for ANYTHING yet ... it might be confused as an
    agreement to the deal ...".  I think he'll come around ....
    
    Scary (with tone to the bone !)

    
    Just to mess his head up, you should ask to use the M3 one night and
    blow his doors off!  That might get him goin'.  Also, you could play
    my Strat one night and tell him you might buy mine instead...

    I love a parade !   8^)     I worked on him a bit more tonight - I took
    a 1988-1989 Guitar Buyers Guide (hey, it's all I had ...) down to his
    apartment and showed him what the M3 listed for then ($1,179), plus I
    reminded him that I had a complete set of 6L6's and EL34's to go with
    it.  He's weakening ....
    
    The more I think about it, if I could have my choice, I'd sell the
    Kitty, and put some $$$ with it and buy a nice Strat with a natural
    finish, but this may work out in the long run.
    
    Scary (who's started playing slide as of today !)

    
    Sell the Kitty.  Buy a new American Std Strat (a nice Gun Metal Blue).
    Better yet, sell the Marshall!
    

    Hell, I can't give the Marshall away !  Besides, the Strat sounds
    really nice with the GP-8 and all.  WTF, guess I'll keep *that* part of
    my rig.
    
    Could someone tell me what's supposed to be so hot about the 25th
    Anniversay Strat ?  Is it supposed to be a '54 re-issue type thing
    (which would be kinda tough since it's got a maple fretboard ..),
    what's the scoop ?
    
    Scary

    Scary...
    
    If you really wanna know, the *RARE* Anniversary strats are the first 
    issue of the series...you can distinctly tell these apart, as they do
    NOT have "ANNIVERSARY" on the upper bout!  These guitars are whitish
    in color, with these cool silver sparkles mixed in with the paint!
    A rare finish on a rare series of guitars.  The silver painted ones
    aren't very special IMHO.

    I played a new American Standard a few minutes ago, and it didn't play
    ANYWHERE as nice as this silver job.  I kinda figured that the silver
    ones weren't "limited edition's" or anything like that, I was just
    wondering what the big selling feature was.  Like the Clapton model
    with the lace sensors and non-moving trem.  Surely they didn't stick
    this high price tag on it 'cuz it says "anniversary" on the top horn.
    
    Scary (who'd still love to have an American Standard ...)

    
    I seem to remember one difference between the STD and the "vintage"
    models which was that the width of the fretboard was wider on the STD.
    I guess with the older models, the little E would "fall off" the
    fretboard.  I believe this was discussed somewhere in this file too.