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What guitar sounds like a strat but doesn't look like one.
I've allways hated the look of a Fender Stratocaster. But you can't argue that they're comfortable to play.
And sound really great when a John Frusciante or David Gilmour play them. Now, Fender and Gibson beeing INCRDIBLE conservative and boring when it comes to innovation and new designs, -googling something like this title feels a bit claustrofobic. These companies are so dominating and still keeps spewing out the same year after year with some new colours. All of them last century designs. A car manufacturer would be dead with this policy(!) Fender did some cool stuff with their Pawn Shop models a couple of years back. That got shot down by corporate thinking. Ok rant over ;-) What options are there for a nice playable guitar like the Strat or a Jazzmaster, but not looking anything like these. (And I don't mean a silly Paul Stanley's Washburn either.) I've read it can be can be a bit of a hit and miss Eastwood. They make some fun guitars. I like Gretsch too, but not Bigsby's. I've been considering a Tele Nashville, but ain't so sure about that twangy sound. I wish to discover something cool I've overlooked.
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Not sure if it qualified but Jay Turser made a Jazz master Ish guitar body that was set up like a strat.
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Basically anything to which you can fit Strat pickups will sound like a Strat. The plank of wood might have some subtle effects but it's the pickups (and the rest of the chain ie amp and speakers) which really defines the sound.
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True but you gotta have single or split coils and that middle pickup to get that Strat honk. I saw a guy in a country band who sounded for all the world like he had a Strat, but it was a Les Paul with humbuckers. Hadda be split coils.
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Ibanez Talman?
Or a Music Man Albert Lee? Arguably both are Fenderish-looking but you wouldn't mistake either for a Fender. |
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+1 on the Music Man Albert Lee... (Although I find the Strat design to be the top of the pops...):
http://www.music-man.com/instruments/guitars/albert-lee
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I have a nice black Yamaha Dreadnought. Yamaha SG's are fantastic! Too bad they're so insanly priced. You never see kit's or clones of the Yamaha SG's like all other classics. I wonder why that is..
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Sooo that's a yes?
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Without having a clue what your tastes are - apart from the fact that you don't seem to like anything double cutaway or offset, I offer this - the MusicMan St. Vincent.
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