TS>        Really? For the price that Gibson is 
 TS> charging, you'd figure that there'd be quality 
 TS> control... :/
 TS>        Well, as long as you're happy with with it, 
 TS> I can't say anything. :) My favorite is a Mexican 
 TS> Strat, and price had nothing to do with my 
 TS> determination of that. :)
Well I to think they should have some standard but they don't. I love the 
ebony fretboard but only 2 of the 7 I have tried have one. All the rest are 
rosewood. And the two that have ebony have gold hardware. Now however these 2 
guitars are still different as one has the black knobs where as the other one 
has the amber colored knobs. Still another studio has the black speed knobs 
that are different again. I just worry that they maybe forgot to put in the 
gibson pickups and perhaps put in epiphone pickups instead. But hey it is 
only a studio. 
 TS>        The Tex Mex Fat Strat? (Wow. Try saying that three times 
 TS> fast...) Personally, I already have one vintage 
 TS> sounding guitar, and with the way I have it set 
 TS> up, I can run the gammut from nice clean and crisp 
 TS> country twang to nice fat singing leads. (Thanks 
 TS> Torres Engineering :>) That's my #1, Layla. I also 
 TS> now have a Tex Mex Tele Special and another Strat 
 TS> that I've built (currently in the process of 
 TS> finding time to reattach the neck that I stripped 
 TS> the screw-holes on) that both are hotter sounding. 
 TS> The Tele has a 'bucker in the neck and a hot 
 TS> bridge single coil, and (thanks to Duncan 
 TS> Markley), the FrankenStrat has a FLS Red in the 
 TS> bridge and a Texas Special in the neck and is 
 TS> wired up like a Tele (though I may wire in a middle 
 TS> PU and put a toggle on it to turn just that one on). 
I get the feeling you like fenders a lot. I do like them two but I like 
gibsons too. I guess the telecaster is my all time favorite design as I love 
the total simplicity of it. Still STrats are good to as I have had a ton of 
them. I had one of those tex mex strats too and it was set up perfect and 
didn't have a single buzz anywhere on the neck.  I do regret trading it but I 
like tele's more. PRS's are real nice but I don't want to spend a couple of 
month's salary on one. 
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