Our ex guitarist recently brought back a Strat from a US trip. It is a natural wood finish, not painted, just polished and varnished. It is a kind of light ash/beechwood colour. The fretboard is exactly the same colour. Beautiful. Seemingly it is not a special but straight of the shelf. None of us have seen anything that looks or sounds as good as it. If he were to order a special custom that would be the very guitar. Now he does not need to. The guy in the shop said it was the best standard strat he had ever come across and thought it might have been a custom that escaped. Our guitarist has declined a lot of offers way in excess of it's retail price.
Once in every blue moon a perfect guitar comes of the production line and he reckons he has found it.

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