Roy, how\'s the new Strat..?

I am so excited for you, A NEW STRAT! WOW!! How cool is that! You owe Santa BIGTIME now my friend I am very anxious to hear your musical ideas with a Fender. What model..? What color..? What fretboard..? ..us inquiring minds wish to know

Wow! It sounds like you and I have the same exact Strat right down to the color!! I thought that once I bought my first Paul Reed Smith that I would never want another guitar. But I bought my American Strat soon after, and I play it more than any of my other guitars - including the Paul Reed!. The sound, the feel, the look - it's all there. I would recomend an American Strat to any one that was looking for a great guitar!

finalcut, that's so cool... I love mine. My fingers are sore from playing so much...

roy didnt get to play his strat.....he was so excited about it and wanted to show all his DUC friends that he went to grab the camera and when he came back to his strat (the one he had placed next to the fire place seconds befor) it was gone.....all he could find was a pile of ash and a leather strap.

bi0force1, surely you jest

Hi Sabe... You must realize, you're talking to a dreamer who just got his wish... Oh man, I love it. It is simply a fine guitar, and I think any guitarist would agree. Not a reissue, not a 'Stevie Ray' edition, but just a normal, straight ahead American-made Strat. But so help me, this one has that touch of 'magic' in it. It sounds so good, you can plug straight into your amp, with nothing else, and it sounds killer. I put new DR strings on it last night (.010's), so the low strings have that 'ting' to em, and oh, man... I probably wouldn't care what color it is, since it plays and sounds so good, but it looks so fine, too. It's a 'honey blonde' color, with a maple neck. I had gone to 4 music stores here and played every Strat they had on the floor. But when I picked this one up and played it, I said, 'This is the one...' What's amazing, is how my wife learned about it, because she wasn't even there. A guy walked up while I was playing and said, 'I knew that had to be Roy Howell, because I heard that slide.' Well, that guy was the guitar salesman's roomate, so the salesman took me back into the little room where he teaches, and brought me every decent guitar in the store, one by one. But, I kept going back to the blonde Strat. I had to say, 'Well, let me think about it' before leaving. And I thought that was it, because then we decided we couldn't afford it. But, now it's in my lap... Hey, sorry for rambling about it, but it's just a rare, cool thing for me. Here's a couple of pics of it (along with my girl, Anna, who is the middle girl in the photos.).