effect of everything the guitar has to offer, and know anything about vintage Strats you have Professional, but I think they got the idea from
it depends on which part of me you ask. If you to take the neck off or cut a big divot in your me (laughs) because there are several of my
asked my back, my back likes that we spec’d pick guard, so you can get a screwdriver in features on that guitar.
the lightweight bodies. Most of them are not there. The reason I did that is because I adjust heavy guitars, as with any guitar some will my truss rod constantly. To me it’s one of the One of the banes of my existence of a tremolo
weigh a little more than others, but overall that most underutilized adjustments on a guitar. A player was the screw-in arm on the old bridges
was the goal. I absolutely love the shape of the lot of people think if the weather changes and with the spring. If you lost the spring you were
neck, and this neck shape was copied off of their neck changes a little bit and their action destined to strip the threads out on your bar. I
my Masterbuilt neck, which was done by hand. gets too high, the first thing they do is lower begged and pleaded with them to do a push/
To me it just feels right, it just feels like its not the bridge. You start jacking with all of the pull trem bar, and they said they have one,
too big, not too small, it’s a ‘Soft V’ and it’s very angles of the guitar at that point, and then your but the diameter is too fat and doesn’t have
comfortable. The compound radius fret board, guitar is never the same until you get it totally the plastic tip. So it feels like a Floyd Rose.
you know I don’t think about it every time, but re-setup. Unless they move I don’t adjust my It should feel just like the old vintage Strats.
its very nice to go up on a vintage feeling Strat saddles. Once my guitar is setup and feels Again, that feature made it onto the American
and bend notes and not fret out. It just plays great it’s all truss rod from that point. Any city Strat Professional, but that was something we
easy, I almost like the fact that I feel like I’m on a we go to I get the guitar out, I put my finger on were working on even before that.
vintage guitar, I’d grown up with the older style the fifteenth fret and the seventh fret and just stuff and that’s where I’m comfortable. But tap it, and it should be about half the width of Even with the styling of the bridge I wanted it to
functionally its fully hot-rodded. a credit card off the neck, that’s how I like it. float and be a style of trem that was useable but
I can immediately feel when I pick it up if it’s still had the vintage sound, so we went with the
Okay, so without cheating on the question, moved. So that was a huge deal for me, and bent steel saddles but did a two-post floating
my favorite features. The fact that the truss that wasn’t available on any guitar that had any kind of hybrid. I took my Today is the Day Strat
rod is adjustable from the headstock. If you sort of vintage styling until the American Strat and modified it and basically made it into what
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