NGD - Strat!

[j2379]

me too never been a fan of the 9.5 radius. the high E always seem to fret out on big beds unless youve got high action, and it just seems so round compared to everything else i own.

[Predator1]

I think the compound radius is now stock on the new 2012 Les Paul Standards. It's about time!

[toejam]

toe - what is it about the 9.5 radius you don't like? i have never had a problem with it - i actually prefer it to a compound....

I just prefer a flatter board like a straight 12" or 14", but compound is nice, too. The Fender sounds fantastic, but I've got my action set up a little higher on it because it seems I'll fret out when doing bigger bends. And I'd never own a vintage Fender with 7.25" radius!

[SausageofPower]

That guitar makes my pants tight. :P

What's the damage on one of those anyway?

[vector]

Had a '76 Strat back in the day when I had naive aspirations of sounding/playing like Jimi. Then I heard Van Halen and 80's hair metal and tore my '76 a new one by having a Floyd put in, along with a Super Distortion. Miss the twangy-ness of it. Most amazing clean tone I ever heard was a pre CBS thru a tweed. Sounded so good I damned near thought about putting down my heavily gained shredders for the cleaner Strat... Damned near, anyway...

[rdamaral]

I hate Strats, but that thing is sick. By far the nicest that I've seen.

[Hellbat]

It's a big compound curve too. 9.5-14. It's really comfortable for me, my only ergonomic problem right now is that I played it for over 4 hours last night and now my fingers are fuggin pissed at me hehe.

Here's a little recording I made this morning through my Digi 11 Rack, excuse the playing and lack of imagination and production talent, I just wanted to hear the recorded tones.

http://members.shaw.ca/dpcowan/strat_test.mp3

[Hellbat]

That guitar makes my pants tight. :P

What's the damage on one of those anyway?

SRP is $2849.99, but of course dealers will sell for less. I got this one for significantly less. In fact less than I paid for my RR1T in 2008.

[dvscool]

beautiful guitar dude...very nice...

[Rich#6]

Compound radius, you say? About time they did that!

I think this is the Fender model that bumped the charvel production to japan. the Fender plant has only one machine that can do compound radi.

[toejam]

I think this is the Fender model that bumped the charvel production to japan. the Fender plant has only one machine that can do compound radi.

Interesting. I thought Jackson/Charvel still had their machines they were using.

[Rich#6]

Interesting. I thought Jackson/Charvel still had their machines they were using.
I should say one cnc machine that could do the compound radius on the Fender side where the production charvels were being made. I think it may have been chubtone that told us this??

[VitaminG]

gorgeous. That's a seriously pretty guitar. And I mean that in the manliest way

[xenophobe]

So are you buying a gig bag for it?

I have that same case and it's heavy as fuck.

[Hellbat]

I have a nice Body Glove gig bag that I bought to use for my Charvel Model 5 that will work perfectly for this as well.

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I don't find the hard case excessively heavy though. It doesn't seem much heavier than the gigantic late 90's C/J hard case that held the Rhoads. I dig the old school tweed with the leather end caps too. It's timeless classy looking.