Silver Sky SE

[stratpurist]

I have 4 strats (including a partscaster) each one has its unique charms but none compare to my 73. I am always looking for a new strat to replicate the sound and feel of the 73.
Budget constraints take the american silver sky from contention! I have for some time trying to get my hands on the SE (import) version. Online reviews have been wildly inconsistent.
This week I found a local store that had 3 (UGLY colors!). Anyway, the fit and finish was way better than the similarly priced Fenders. The tone was a bit darker than I like but still nice.
At $850 (MSRP) I am on the fence. I may have an opportunity to score a B stock but I'm waiting for pricing.

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Jan 11, 2023 8:50:07 GMT -6 stratpurist said:

I have 4 strats (including a partscaster) each one has its unique charms but none compare to my 73. I am always looking for a new strat to replicate the sound and feel of the 73.
Budget constraints take the american silver sky from contention! I have for some time trying to get my hands on the SE (import) version. Online reviews have been wildly inconsistent.
This week I found a local store that had 3 (UGLY colors!). Anyway, the fit and finish was way better than the similarly priced Fenders. The tone was a bit darker than I like but still nice.
At $850 (MSRP) I am on the fence. I may have an opportunity to score a B stock but I'm waiting for pricing.

Good to see you are still around! Seems we are all still looking for that "One" guitar. For me, it's a PRS I played on many years ago before PRS went into mass production. Guess That will never happen for me.

 Hope you find it!

EB

[antares]

My guess is that if Paul Reed Smith allows any association with his name then it'll be well worth tracking one down that speaks to you.

I have a '73 too which I always regarded with scepticism. Indeed I "ruined" it by having the sunny refinned in red by Roka's in Covent Garden (which turned out on collection to be more of a red plastic skin.) In addition I had the maple neck machined down and an ebony board fitted. In recent years I have come to appreciate that despite all the professionally embodied hacks it is actually still a very good guitar, and as a Young Türk I was guilty of judging it by the received standards of the CBS era hating folks instead of using my ears and fingers, not to mention my brain!

でつ e&oe ...

[dnic]

I don't own any real Strats, of course meaning made by Fender. I had a Yami Strat for a couple of years but it never really did it for me. Never really cared much about Strats until a few years back I started getting them in for set ups. They started to grow on me so I built one for me. The Paisley and then also had a client build on the Zak-o-Caster. Anyway the best feeling and playing Strat, that I didn't build of corse, LOL, was a Music Man straty thing. No idea what those things go for but you might want to check them out stratpurist.

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I have owned a lot of Fender Strat's over the years. All of them I have sold off or traded off. I had one I called "Blackie" that I loved. But I wound up giving to a guy that had all of his music gear stolen. At the time, I had a few guitars, and he really liked that Strat. So I gave it to him at Christmas. I have missed that Strat ever since. LOL!

 So since then I have tried to find me another one. But like it goes, I have gone through so many now and never have found one that speaks to me, until I made one.

  You may have seen it on here. It is an all yellow one with a hard tail. I love this Strat. I put some Squire classic vibe pickups in it. They sound really great! I might put in something else at some point, but for me these days it sounds good just the way I made it. It is an all parts guitar. I put in locking tuners with a reworked Start neck. I recurved the neck to the way I like them to feel for me.

 I did find out the guy I gave the black Start to passed away. I tried to find out what happened to the guitar, but never could find it.

EB