I just picked up a mint 1998 Fender Deluxe Strat in Trans Teal with the vintage noiseless pickups, locking tuners, maple slabboard neck etc...
Tone, balance, action, fit, finish are all a 10.
This is a perfect stratocaster and completely silent due to the vintage noiseless staggered poled pickups. If you were ever thinking about a traditional single coil strat for your arsenal but don't want the noise that comes along with single coils you should consider a Deluxe. The pickups blow away the Lace Sensors which are very generic and weak sounding to me.
I also just got a 2000 PRS Standard 22 in Platinum Metallic. It has the PRS trem, Dragon 2 pickups, abaloni moons, les paul tyupe toggle with a push/pull pot for 6 positions and the wide/fat neck. Very Les Paul sounding and feeling IMHO. PRS is really going directly after Gibson on this one. The pickups have a PAF Pro/489T type quality and of course the perfectly balanced tone, the weight, the fit and finish, the hardware and electronics, the action and set up on it are all outstanding. They should be considering the guitar was $2439.00 new. If you are considering one make sure you try out the wide/fat neck before you choose it. I have had both the wide/thin and the wide fat versions. The wide/fat is a big neck. Possibly the fattest widest 6 string neck I have ever played. It is so wide that there is 1/8" of fretboard extending out from both E strings. Anyway, IMHO, PRS really lives up to the hype. Their guitars are pricey but very nice.
Tone, balance, action, fit, finish are all a 10.
This is a perfect stratocaster and completely silent due to the vintage noiseless staggered poled pickups. If you were ever thinking about a traditional single coil strat for your arsenal but don't want the noise that comes along with single coils you should consider a Deluxe. The pickups blow away the Lace Sensors which are very generic and weak sounding to me.
I also just got a 2000 PRS Standard 22 in Platinum Metallic. It has the PRS trem, Dragon 2 pickups, abaloni moons, les paul tyupe toggle with a push/pull pot for 6 positions and the wide/fat neck. Very Les Paul sounding and feeling IMHO. PRS is really going directly after Gibson on this one. The pickups have a PAF Pro/489T type quality and of course the perfectly balanced tone, the weight, the fit and finish, the hardware and electronics, the action and set up on it are all outstanding. They should be considering the guitar was $2439.00 new. If you are considering one make sure you try out the wide/fat neck before you choose it. I have had both the wide/thin and the wide fat versions. The wide/fat is a big neck. Possibly the fattest widest 6 string neck I have ever played. It is so wide that there is 1/8" of fretboard extending out from both E strings. Anyway, IMHO, PRS really lives up to the hype. Their guitars are pricey but very nice.
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