1) Fender Stratocaster 54 reissue - Made in Japan, 1993
2) Fender Telecaster Black Maple - Made in Japan, 1990.
Both aquired from well known and respected sellers in my country (Poland). I chose them over lots of Made in Mexico and Made in America. They just felt right, far superior to others (and more expesive, too) I tried. To be honest, they are in a pretty good damn shape for a 25+ years old guitars. I know we all could write a book about strats and teles, so I just throw few loose thoughts.
Strat
-THAT neck pickup tone, my godness!
-if I was to rate a strat playing comfort, then 11/10 is my rating
-I really tried to make it sound bad on my rockerverb mk1 and jcm900 2501 combo. I could not. It sounds at least good in literally every position.
-It is a really funk machine. I can't stop playing Can't stop and Get Lucky
Tele
-Tele. Does. Metal. Repeat. Tele. Does. Metal. Even with those stock pickups it is super punchy, aggressive and has so much power on hi gain. Sounds better than at least half of HH guitars I tried so far.
-It makes you rock. I can play cleans of strat, but tele forces me to drive everything harder.
-It cleans up so beautifully. I can play on my rockerverb's dirty channel boosted with Maxon OD-9, but when I roll down volume knob it really becomes pretty clean.
-Neck pickup is creamy. Like a true, home-made ice creams!
For Both
-single coils are noisy, so in the future I could think about pickups upgrade to some kind of Lace Sensors or Seymour Duncans, but for now I can live with that lovely hum!
Enough chit-chat. Here are some photos folks. I'm not a pro photographer, but I tried my best.
And a view that makes me smile!
