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If you can find a 2000 model American Standard Strat with one piece swamp ash body , but it. The pickups are not noiseless but are the best sounding strat and best playing the first year of the new bridge tremolo and it rocks . I bought two , two color sunburst with maple fretboads in the first weeks of production, and immediatly sold all my custom shop strats and Eric Clapton models as well.
His new one is based on the new American Standard but has that aggravating v neck profile which I find nine out of ten of them have problems with the e string wanting to fall off the neck in solo runs and the noisless pickups are not transparent enough. It is not a bad guitar mind you it just is about hype more than content. Clapton's tech rebuilds all his strats practically from the ground up and the ones fender buids are not the samre other than cosmetically. If you want claptons tone buy one of the old ones if you can find one that doesn't have a bad neck on it.