Stratocaster Vintage
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What's with the Vintage guitars?
I'm thinking about getting a guitar soon, and I was thinking about getting a stratocaster. I thought it would be easy, but it isn't. There's all different ones from 50s, 60s, 70s etc. Whats the difference between those vintage ones and guitars made recently?
It's like with cars - some people pay lots of money for oldtimers, even if the newer cars outperform the old ones. But you pay to have a piece of history. But be careful about Strats. There are those made in Mexico, they cost about $300 - 600 (Deluxe Player's Strat), and American Custom Shop ones, with prices upward of $1300. If I had to buy a Strat now (28+ years of playing just about every guitar there is), I'd go for Mexican Delkux player's Strat, about 600 at musiciansfriend.com (buy online, save money). It has the pickups & hardware like its cutom shop brothers, but at 1/2 or even 1/4 of the price.
However, ever since I got my first Ibanez RG Prestige, I forgot about Fenders and Gibsons... those guitars have everything a Strat does, and then some. After all, Vai, Satriani, Gilbert, Metheny and George Benson probably know a thing or two about guitars.
P.S.
... and the possibility of making a mistake is HUGE - bmarcus above has Gibsons from the 70s, when both Gibson and Fender manufactured horrible guitars. But he paid them a lot!
www.guitarmatze.com: Vintage 1963 Fender Stratocaster meets a JVM Marshall Amp
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 VINTAGE SQUIER II STRAT STRATOCASTER TREM BRIDGE COMPLETE MADE IN KOREA MIK  US $.99
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 VINTAGE 1971 FENDER STRATOCASTER PICKUP US $105.00
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 VINTAGE 1976 FENDER STRATOCASTER PICKUP US $50.00
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 Fender Vintage 60s reissue Stratocaster Strat PICKUP middle US $.99
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 Fender Vintage 60s reissue Stratocaster Strat PICKUP bridge US $.99
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 Vintage 70s Reissue Stratocaster Strat TREMOLO bridge US $.99
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