It plays very well, it's a lot brighter than the rosewood boarded one the left. They've both set up with highish actions to give me a bit of a fight, but that's the way I like 'em.
I think the ash body on the new one makes a difference as well when compared with the alder one. They're both resonant but no where as bollock shaking as my Nocaster when you play it.
I probably should say that the one on the right is the one of the limited 62 Brazilian rosewood fingerboard run they did in 2010. Whils the new one is the 2010 Q1 58 limited editions, one of 30 made I believe.
The neck profiles are quite different with the 58 having what fender call the 10/56 profile, which is a big soft V, whilst the 62 is a big C shaped palm filler. Both are very comfy but I need to live with thenew one for a bit longer before I can say which I prefer. Neither is as large as my Nocaster which is a monster of an U. The radiuses are a modern 9.5 and the frets are narrow and high.
Weight wise there's not much in it from holding them and I'm not going to put them on scales as I'm not that anal. Neither are the lightest strats I've played, but they're also not the heaviest.
Pickup wise the I'll have to give it a bit more time, but from what I've heard so far they sound very stratty to me. I think they're all Abby '50s with a RWRP middle.
I had to have this one just because if the colour matching the one I already had, but there were some other glorious strats at the shop which if I had the budget would probably have come home with me as well. I'm impressed with the consistency of high end Fender guitars, much more so than the similar priced Gibsons I've tried. I think deep down I'm a fender man, but I can't bring myself to not like my Lester though. I'm just a guitar slut, what can I say!
It was bought from Guitars4you and Mark has a couple of insanely cracking deals on a couple of teles at the moment if anyone's interested.
Right less typing and more strumming for me now.
