What do the Apaches sound like?

[Elliot]

Funny that Ratrod because I cant play anything else - I have a Fender Esprit, a tele and used to have a Tokai Love Rock but I always come back to my strat because (for me) it is so comfortable to play and because you can control the tone so well with pedals (currently my amp is at the repairman and I am playing through a Bad Monkey into computer speakers - with the volume turned to 2 on the Strat - a damn nice it is too!)

Horses for courses I guess.

[gripweed]

I love the strats for their sound but I'll be thinking twice before ever buying one. Ergonomical reasons: the top volume knob, or is that a tone knob? gets in my way, meaning bloody knuckles. And then there's that Fulcrum style vibrato: detunes when palm muting too hard, low sting tension. I sometimes pick up a strat, my ears say yes but every inch of my body screams no. Weird isn't it, for a guitar that was built with ergonomics in mind.

I agree with you on the placement of the knobs.  I'm constantly knocking the volume knob out of place and then wondering why I can't hear myself :D.  Im currently modding a Strat and I think I'll be getting rid of that top volume knob altogether.

[Kilby]

Funny that Ratrod because I cant play anything else - I have a Fender Esprit,

Horses for courses I guess.

Elliot I know that this is a bit off topic, but what do you think of the esprit, as I have been considering buying one as I only have a Peavey Wolfgang QT here in London and I have decided that would prefer something with a gibson scale (small hands you see).

Plus a woflie isn't really my style, and I am missing my Strat back in Belfast.

Regards,

Kilby...

[Elliot]

I have a 1983 Fender Esprit Standard not the newer Squier Master Series Esprit - the headstock is different, as are the pups - I think the Squier has Duncan Design, which are probably better than the Schaller ones Fenders have (but you would put bkp's in them anyway).

They are good guitars, like a chambered Les Paul -  they are chambered mahogany with a maple top and have excellent sustain and the fingerboard is very nice.  Not really a thrashers  guitar - but really good for jazzy stuff, rock and blues = Robben Ford is the most famous player of Esprits.

I would check one of the new Squiers out as they seem a bargain at the price.

[FELINEGUITARS]

I SO WANTED TO ANSWER THIS BY GOING :

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[Ratrod]

I SO WANTED TO ANSWER THIS BY GOING :

[CHILD'S RED INDIAN SOUND EFFECT] WHOO WHOO WHOO WHOO WHOO WHOO WHOO WHOO[/CHILD'S RED INDIAN SOUND EFFECT]

How would the Sultans sound then?