Strato

Sep 1, 2023

~ No shipping ~ It’s a 2001 US Strato, rosewood fingerboard on C profile maple neck, low action, alder body in Candy Apple Red color, in immaculate condition. No farts or marks. Never with my gear. This model succeeded the Lonestar in 2000, with some improvements already underway for some: . adoption d’un 5-way superswitch, . refinement of the polishing of the fingerboard edges, . abandon de la défonce “swimming pool”, . 1 single string tree, but staged mechanics. Just as the “American standard” became “American Series”, the old Lonestar, Roadhouse and Big Apple are then grouped under the “Hot Rodded” version for models equipped with Texas Special and/or humbuckers. It is a stratocaster of remarkable finish and among the most versatile: . Texas Special pickups in Neck and Middle for blues among others, . the Bridge is a Pearly Gates Plus (overwound Alnico 5) for hard rock but not only. Volume and Tone2 potentiometers have been replaced by 500K CTS, the wiring / filtering adapted according to the Rothstein Guitars diagram to take full advantage of the humbucker. And the unchanged tone 1 remains in 250K for the 2 single coils. The frets are medium-jumbo barely marked, set and mounted in 10-46. Accompanied by its flight case, vibrato rod, allen keys in imperial format for height saddles and truss rod. She in splendid condition, like all my collection of guitars and amps sold in part here. I sell almost everything because Gérard “Jeff” Drummer and Jean-Claude “Clapt” Bassman have to play the harp from now on. Finally I guess.