Couldn't believe it

[dogberry]

So this past weekend my daughter's boyfriend is over, doing some yard work for me, and after lunch the boyfriend and the daughter are hanging out in the sitting room. I'm there too, noodling around on the guitar, which is a good way to keep an eye on things without being too obvious. The boyfriend pipes up, "Say, I have a guitar, too." "Really?" says I, "Acoustic or electric, and do you play it much?" Electric, and no, says the boyfriend, my uncle gave it to me but I don't play it. I encouraged him to bring it by so I could check it out. Well, he returns later in the pm, opens up the case, and it's a gen-u-wine Strat. The serial# on the back plate dates it to 1971-73. It's a little rough around the edges -- cracked pickguard, one pickup is a little loose on its mount, some delamination on the back of the headstock -- but we plugged it into the daughter's amp, and everything works. Plugged into my cheap litttle amp, it sounds killer Even though it needs new strings and a fretboard cleanup, it plays like silk. A fer real Fender Stratocaster, and he doesn't even play it. I knew I was suspicious of that kid.

 

[chazmo]

So this past weekend my daughter's boyfriend is over, doing some yard work for me, and after lunch the boyfriend and the daughter are hanging out in the sitting room. I'm there too, noodling around on the guitar, which is a good way to keep an eye on things without being too obvious. The boyfriend pipes up, "Say, I have a guitar, too." "Really?" says I, "Acoustic or electric, and do you play it much?" Electric, and no, says the boyfriend, my uncle gave it to me but I don't play it. I encouraged him to bring it by so I could check it out. Well, he returns later in the pm, opens up the case, and it's a gen-u-wine Strat. The serial# on the back plate dates it to 1971-73. It's a little rough around the edges -- cracked pickguard, one pickup is a little loose on its mount, some delamination on the back of the headstock -- but we plugged it into the daughter's amp, and everything works. Plugged into my cheap litttle amp, it sounds killer Even though it needs new strings and a fretboard cleanup, it plays like silk. A fer real Fender Stratocaster, and he doesn't even play it. I knew I was suspicious of that kid.

Those ungrateful whippersnappers!

 

[Scratch]

Get a rope! Or better yet, tell him its a cheap imitation and you'll give him fifty bucks to get it off his hands... :wink:

 

[hansmoust]

The serial# on the back plate dates it to 1971-73. It's a little rough around the edges -- cracked pickguard, one pickup is a little loose on its mount, some delamination on the back of the headstock --

Hello dogberry,

Fun story but you really have to explain the following to me:

'some delamination on the back of the headstock'

I really want this kid to have a real Fender Stratocaster but what do you mean with 'some delamination'?
As far as I know there is nothing 'laminated' in that particular area.

Maybe you could explain this to me.

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
http://www.guitarsgalore.nl

 

[dogberry]

The serial# on the back plate dates it to 1971-73. It's a little rough around the edges -- cracked pickguard, one pickup is a little loose on its mount, some delamination on the back of the headstock --

Hello dogberry,

Fun story but you really have to explain the following to me:

'some delamination on the back of the headstock'

I really want this kid to have a real Fender Stratocaster but what do you mean with 'some delamination'?
As far as I know there is nothing 'laminated' in that particular area.

Maybe you could explain this to me.

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
http://www.guitarsgalore.nl

Hans,
Bad terminology on my part, I think. On the back of the headstock, near the top, there is some wood missing/chipped off. It looks sort of what it looks like when a laminate layer comes loose from the layer beneath, and then breaks off. But, as you say, there's nothing laminated on the back of the headstock. I was trying to describe what it looks like, and not really doing it well -- or accurately.

 

[fronobulax]

Can the parents get a "Bride Price" in Tacoma?

 

[JerryR]

Gonna say - sounds like a good swap - not so much 'losing a daughter as gaining a Strat' :mrgreen:

 

[dogberry]

Gonna say - sounds like a good swap - not so much 'losing a daughter as gaining a Strat' :mrgreen:

Hmmmm. . . . .