Originally Posted by Colin Ward
DRS,

I am afraid you are mistaken if you think "Jap Strats" are inferior. There was a time in the early 80s when Fender bought a Japanese manufacturer because the quality of the Japanese copies was better than the US made Fenders. Fender modeled their new factory on the Japanese methods.

Now Strats are made in the US and Mexico. They are still made in Japan too, but Japanese Strats are rarely imported into the US because their costs are too high. Cheap Strats under the Fender Squier name are made in China and Indonesia and many of those are good playable instruments.

You are right that you will not hear Roy Buchanan or Steve Ray Vaughan play a "Jap Strat" because they are both dead.

Eric and Keith are given all the guitars they can stand and have no need to shop for value. But i would venture to say that if they played Chinese Squiers, they would still sound exactly like Eric and Keith.


I play a Jap-built 1988 Squire Strat and that thing is built like a tank.
Bought it new, dragged it along with me to college and back home. Played hundreds of gigs with it and it still plays like a frikkin' dream.
I love that guitar.

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