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I heard someone say that each string has and
individual winding on the EJ Strat, but that sounds
more like the way Mosrite built pickups than
Fender.....anybody know?
--- Marty Tippens <> wrote:
> Congrats on the new guitar, Bob. A Strat in '54 was
> somewheres around 265- which is between 1500 and
> 1600 in today's money. For that reason, I think the
> EJ strat is not overpriced and those details are
> nice, especially the light weight. I have a '54
> Masterbuilt from last year that is also very light
> weight and next to the fat neck, it is my favorite
> feature.
>
> I don't know what you mean when describe the
> pick-ups as complex. How does one tell the
> difference between a complex pick-up and a
> non-complex pick-up?
>
> -Marty
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bob Steingraber
> To:
> Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 11:38 AM
> Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Fender's Eric Johnson
> Signature Model
>
>
> Has anybody out there played Fender's Eric Johnson
> signature model? I
> gotta tell you, I am absolutely blown away! It's
> relatively expensive
> @ about $1600.00, but in my opinion is well worth
> it. The tone of
> this guitar is phenominal. Acoustically, it is the
> loudest solid body
> electric guitar, I've ever heard. Plugged
> in......holy guacamole!!!!
> You hit a note or a chord on this thing and it
> just resonates, swells
> and sustains like you wouldn't believe. This strat
> sings like no
> other that I've ever played. The carefully chosen
> wood, thin nitro-
> cellulose lacquer finish, one piece quartersawn
> neck, the thin
> further-back headstock, staggered tuners,
> elimination of string
> trees, shallow pickup cavities, higher-mass
> tremolo block, and
> specially made pickups really make a H-U-G-E
> difference in tone. The
> guitar weighs in at only about 61/2 lbs!!!! The
> neck pickup is like
> a '54, the middle pickup is reverse wound and like
> an early 60's
> pickup, and the neck pickup like an overwound 50's
> pickup. These
> pickups are well balanced, complex, as quiet as
> you could reasonably
> expect from single coils, and are, in my opinion,
> everything they
> should be. The 5-spring tremolo is pretty stiff,
> but with the
> modified headstock and lack of string-trees,
> REALLY stays in tune. In
> fact I caught Eric @ The Independent Club in S.F.
> on Sunday night,
> and he played the sh*t out of this guitar all
> night, only taking it
> off to tune up during the bass and drum solos. He
> played one (!!!)
> Red signature model for the entire 2 hour show.
> How many endorsees
> don't even use their own signature model or
> products they endorse???
> Eric obviously believes in this model. Kudos to
> Eric, Michael Frank-
> Braun, and everyone else involved in designing and
> building these
> wonderful instruments.(Dave Wronski, were you
> involved in building
> any of these babies???) I'm sure there are the
> guys out there saying
> that it isn't worth 8 times the cost of a Squier
> strat, 5 times the
> cost of a standard, or twice the cost of an
> American strat, but I beg
> to differ. It really hurt to fork over $1600.00+,
> but I bought a
> sunburst one, and it's the best money I ever
> spent! Now if my fingers
> would just stop bleeding.....
> Bob S.
>
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