Any Guitar Players on here?

[Dupri31]

Guitar Players....I gotta ask ya if you know anything about this guitar...the Eric Johnson Stratocaster.

I used to play and teach professionally, and one of my little students had one of these and I played it and I absolutely loved it and swore I would have one when I had the dough. However...I was doing research on a website I use and I saw a negative review that made me question whether to get one or not. Just curious what other players experiences were with this guitar.

Rock on,

Dupri

 

[stratman]

Guitar Players....I gotta ask ya if you know anything about this guitar...the Eric Johnson Stratocaster.

I used to play and teach professionally, and one of my little students had one of these and I played it and I absolutely loved it and swore I would have one when I had the dough. However...I was doing research on a website I use and I saw a negative review that made me question whether to get one or not. Just curious what other players experiences were with this guitar.

Rock on,

Dupri

Hey Dupri,

This guitar model was designed by Eric, it has a contoured two-piece alder body with a very thin nitrocellulose lacquer finish. A one-piece quarter-sawn maple neck with a V-shaped profile, 12” fingerboard radius and 21 polished frets. The staggered vintage-style machine heads eliminate the need for a string tree. The custom pickups are wound to Johnson’s specs. It has "parchment" 1957-style pickguard, a four-spring vintage tremolo, silver-painted block and a ’57-style string recess with no paint between the base plate and the block. Aside from this it plays like any other Stratocaster. What was negative about the guitar? In all my years playing I learned early on, test drive before you buy, after you buy go to a competent luthier and have your guitar set up properly, I have yet to see a guitar come from a factory properly set up.

 

[Dupri31]

Yo Stratman,

Thanks...I guess I meant that the review said that he noticed a big difference among the individual EJ's...in how they played and felt. I thought it was odd to say the least, because I agree with your sentiments on Strats being consistent... I always play before I buy, but the more I know going in the more I know what to look and listen for. Anyway, thanks so much and I appreciated your feedback.

 

[stratman]

Yo Stratman,

Thanks...I guess I meant that the review said that he noticed a big difference among the individual EJ's...in how they played and felt. I thought it was odd to say the least, because I agree with your sentiments on Strats being consistent... I always play before I buy, but the more I know going in the more I know what to look and listen for. Anyway, thanks so much and I appreciated your feedback.

It use to be years ago, that certain music stores would have models on the wall that were set up better than the factory, they would show these models in order to impress less experienced players, once they got a guitar home it didn't play like the store model, I have never seen a properly set guitar from the factory, never, even the expensive brand names.

 

[jliedeka]

Better guitar stores will do the set up when you purchase the guitar. My Strat Plus was pretty good out of the box but they double-checked the intonation, string height, pickup height and tremolo settings before I walked out the door.

I would definitely recommend that you only buy a guitar you have played. I once got lucky buying an amp I never heard but I wouldn't recommend that.

Jim

 

[stratman]

Better guitar stores will do the set up when you purchase the guitar. My Strat Plus was pretty good out of the box but they double-checked the intonation, string height, pickup height and tremolo settings before I walked out the door.

I would definitely recommend that you only buy a guitar you have played. I once got lucky buying an amp I never heard but I wouldn't recommend that.

Jim

Absolutely, 100% correct. No musical instrument should be bought without a trial run. That's right you also have a Strat + as I do, nice instrument isn't it? I took mine to my fave luthier and he worked on it for about a day, action, truss rod alignment, pick-ups, intonation all the works, I usually take it once a year or so for a tune up. My gold-top tends to be a little less fussier than the Strat keeping in tune, though that guitar has been worked over too.