I am just glad that my lovely Sonic Blue Strat gets noticed-I forgive you Indy of Smith and I salute you JP of Oz. T'was interesting what Jonathan said though abiout the vintage versions-all those points I would readily agree with. It looks great, sounds pretty good but if only it played as well as my US Strat. A mate of mine filed down the nut a little and lowered the action too much.Made the sound bad as the strings were too close to the pups and could I find my hex wrench to change it back well no I couldn't and I had to get a new one today-luckily have no gig tonight so I can sort it out.