Re: Why so many relics

nick wrote:
To me the Strat is giving the buyer more bang
for his bucks .

nosferatu - that's interesting ... despite definitely preferring
strats to teles, I've always found the latter to be more versatile. I
suppose that depends upon your definition of "versatile", but I often
used to find myself thinking: "shall I take the strat and the les paul
tonight ... or just the tele?". I agree with you though, that a strat
seems like much more for the money - just in terms of construction
materials if nothing else.

Woody - I think that spending a lot of money to pay for something
battered is a little daft but, imho, some guitars can look pretty cool
when they are a little "beat up". It is, like many things we discuss
here, all down to personal preference. Personally I hate any kind of
damage whatsoever to Gibsons, but I tend to like my Fenders looking
like they've been chained to the back of a pickup truck and dragged a
few miles down the interstate, depending upon the finish. There's
nothing more to it than that, I just think it looks cool. :)

I even blogged thusly: http://guitritus.bumlasers.com/?p=31

nick :)

A Tele has twice the wood in the body. Plus sometimes simpler is not easier to build.
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