Strats - anyone else not like them?

[_tom_]

V is actually really comfy, which I found weird.

[Crazy_Joe]

Strange, will have to try it.

What's the opinions on the Lite Ash strat?
It has awesome specs and is a good price, comes in a great colour scheme (all black with all maple neck). Though i heard the quality was a bit hit and miss.

[Philly Q]

V is actually really comfy, which I found weird.

It's very much a personal thing though - I find a V really uncomfortable, unless it's a very "soft" V like the Baja Tele (which is really more like a U shape, IMO).

As usual, try before you buy.

The Lite Ash is great for the price, and the build quality seems pretty consistent from the few I've seen - Korean QC is usually good, isn't it?  Good pickups too (oops, I said something positive about Seymour Duncan, I'll get struck by lightning... ).  I'm just not keen on some of the cosmetic details - the abalone inlays and just a "Fender" logo on the headstock (no "Stratocaster").

[_tom_]

I have no idea what kind of v the neck I bought off phil king had. It was a MIM '57 style I think. Would've been a great neck if I could get on with the 7.25" radius :(

[FernandoDuarte]

Looks like i want a C shape, V looks weird, i'll try one out though when i go to try some strats out.

I only know the Fender Eric Clapton signature has V neck, but I'm sure that has more guitars with it...

[Philly Q]

Yeah, the '50s reissues and the '50s Classic Player have a "harder" (less rounded, more pointed) V shape than the Baja Tele.  I had a Jimmie Vaughan Signature which was also quite a hard V.  I've never tried a Clapton Strat but I believe it's a slightly softer, less bulky V and a bit shallower at the nut (a lot of V necks are pretty much the same depth for the whole length of the neck). 

It's not so much the V shape of the back that bothers me, it's the shape of the "shoulder" where the neck meets the fingerboard.  I prefer a more rounded shape like a Gibson '59.  The Fender C is a bit too slim, but still OK for me.

[Crazy_Joe]

The 50's Classic Player will be perfect for me as long as i get on with the neck. The specs look promising and it has the all maple neck.

[tomjackson]

I really like the way Strats - anyone else not like them? has turned into a finer discussion on the relative advantages of various Stratocaster neck profiles :)

[Philly Q]

I really like the way Strats - anyone else not like them? has turned into a finer discussion on the relative advantages of various Stratocaster neck profiles :)

Yeah, we've bored the haters into submission...

Hopefully.

[PhilKing]

My 57 has the hardest V neck I ever played (John Elliott at Bravewood also said it was the sharpest V he had seen).  However it is really comfortable but a bit thin at the nut.  The story on V-Necks is that the original guy who had been making necks was suddenly taken ill or something and they put a new guy on the job and he didn't really know what he was doing.  By the time anyone noticed, he has made a lot of them and so they decided to keep the shape!  If this is true, mine might have been one of the first he made!!

However, I have a 1917 Washburn Acoustic which has a V-Neck and my Martin 000-28 also has a V shape, so V-necks have been around a long time.  The reissue V is softer than the originals, and the Warmoth Clapton shape is very comfy (I have that shape on one of my tele necks).

[FernandoDuarte]

The story on V-Necks is that the original guy who had been making necks was suddenly taken ill or something and they put a new guy on the job and he didn't really know what he was doing.  By the time anyone noticed, he has made a lot of them and so they decided to keep the shape!  If this is true, mine might have been one of the first he made!!

:lol:

[WezV]

i think V might just be one of those shapes you would easily slip into if you were carving necks by hand all day... as a job, rather than a guitar player or luthier. i know V-shapes work, but i wouldnt ever have dreamt of doing one before trying one as guitar necks should clearly be a bit rounder!!! (not sure why, but thats what i was told to think at some point)  Its one of those things that has to occur because some guy in a factory wants to take his break a bit sooner ;)

they do feel great and phil's 57 V neck was particularly nice but it had that great worn in feel that really helps.. i would have liked to play it attached to a body to see how i got on with it.. but i did take measurements so may just try one at some point!

[Ted 'N' Leo]

I have a 1917 Washburn Acoustic which has a V-Neck...

God damn you.

Good story on the V neck by the way. I generally think that the best things in life tend to happen by accident.

[AndyG]

I've probably owned, briefly, a dozen or so of the things and just can't get on with them at all; I hate the trem, the volume control gets in the way and I can't get them to sound anything other than weedy and thin. Teles, on the other hand-especially the Highway 1-I like a lot.

[Doctor X]

what does the volume control get in the way of?