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Just won this yesterday afternoon:http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...2361&rd=1&rd=1 and he said it will ship today, so I should have it next week, just in time for the 4-day weekend 
Here's the story (kinda long so feel free to skip and just comment of the guitar)
. I've been learning/playing a bunch of SRV and blues stuff the last 6 months and have been GASing for a Strat. Two weeks ago I won an SRV strat that I didn't expect to, which was fine because it was a model I was considering. It came in last Thursday and it was a nice guitar but I thought the neck was too fat for my hands. I have also thought about a YJM (I had a blue one 3 years ago for a couple months) but stores just don't carry them and with the scalloping I wanted to play one first.
Lucky for me the new Sam Ash here has a used one. So Friday I took a long lunch and went to play their SRV and the YJM back-to-back. Played the SRV first for about 10 minutes, which was enough since I had played mine the night before. Then I found the used YJM they have (blue w/rosewood board) and ended up playing it for about 45 minutes! It took a couple minutes to adjust to the scalloped board but I was digging it. It felt fantastic for bends and vibrato, which is what I was looking for. But I don't want a one-trick pony, so I made sure to play some open chord and SRV stuff (like Love Struck Baby) to make sure it still felt good. And it did. Unfortunately, they are asking $1200 for the YJM which is way off-base considering you can get a new one for $1399. So I didn't even bother haggling.
I played the SRV a bunch more over the weekend and confirmed the neck doesn't work for me. I sold it on the bay Wed. and yesterday was really thinking of different options when I happened to check my "Yngwie" saved search after lunch and found it. I had to do a double-take, a USA Yngwie strat (white w/maple no less) with a $700 BIN! And not trashed -lol. That's a good price even for a Jap one. I hit the refresh a couple times while deciding and no one had bought it, so I did! Now I just have to wait.......
Here's the story (kinda long so feel free to skip and just comment of the guitar)
. I've been learning/playing a bunch of SRV and blues stuff the last 6 months and have been GASing for a Strat. Two weeks ago I won an SRV strat that I didn't expect to, which was fine because it was a model I was considering. It came in last Thursday and it was a nice guitar but I thought the neck was too fat for my hands. I have also thought about a YJM (I had a blue one 3 years ago for a couple months) but stores just don't carry them and with the scalloping I wanted to play one first. Lucky for me the new Sam Ash here has a used one. So Friday I took a long lunch and went to play their SRV and the YJM back-to-back. Played the SRV first for about 10 minutes, which was enough since I had played mine the night before. Then I found the used YJM they have (blue w/rosewood board) and ended up playing it for about 45 minutes! It took a couple minutes to adjust to the scalloped board but I was digging it. It felt fantastic for bends and vibrato, which is what I was looking for. But I don't want a one-trick pony, so I made sure to play some open chord and SRV stuff (like Love Struck Baby) to make sure it still felt good. And it did. Unfortunately, they are asking $1200 for the YJM which is way off-base considering you can get a new one for $1399. So I didn't even bother haggling.
I played the SRV a bunch more over the weekend and confirmed the neck doesn't work for me. I sold it on the bay Wed. and yesterday was really thinking of different options when I happened to check my "Yngwie" saved search after lunch and found it. I had to do a double-take, a USA Yngwie strat (white w/maple no less) with a $700 BIN! And not trashed -lol. That's a good price even for a Jap one. I hit the refresh a couple times while deciding and no one had bought it, so I did! Now I just have to wait.......
I love mine. I got rid of the mint green pup covers and pickguard and installed aged white to more accurately depict a 70's Strat.
They are great guitars!
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