Don't know why but I can't stand this pickup configuration on a Strat. It's a visual thing. Two humbuckers, P90s, lipsticks, Coodercaster, I find them all legit but this one just calls for a pointy headstock and a Floyd Rose. To me it's just not a Strat anymore.
HSS Strats
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Most usable configuration in the modern lineup in my opinion
I can’t say I really disagree. I don’t think it has to have a pointy headstock, although I do like a lot of pointy super strats. But if it’s not pointy, it needs to be the huge 70’s headstock.
This one is pretty
dreamingtele
Poster Extraordinaire
I think it looks good. I want to HSS my SSS strat actually
i also like pointy guitars like the Jackson Dinky..
i also like pointy guitars like the Jackson Dinky..
Yes, the other coil is less visible, but that bridge pickup slant is such a cool feature on a classic Strat design.
GreatDaneRock
Tele-Afflicted
Bull CRAP. It's the best-looking configuration IMO, and also the most versatile tonal-wise, especially if the coil can be split on the HB.
Had one. Didn’t feel like it was a Stratocaster. Sold it to a coworker.
clingin_on
Tele-Meister
I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Strats are that cheap that you can have two or three with different pickup configurations. Just shut your eyes and play... It's all good.
SRHmusic
Friend of Leo's
Okay, to each their own. It's a very versatile guitar, the HSS Strat. I own four, two I put together 'just how I like 'em.' With a coil split switch and a few levels of drive from clean to overdriven these guitars can cover a wide range of music with few or any other pedals. Other guitarists have told me they're impressed I can get away with one guitar for a three hour show.
Tommy Biggs
Friend of Leo's
There’s some nice single spaced hb pickups. I love the HSS format.
I focus a lot more how they sound and play than how they look.
The one in the op looks ok to me, If it played well and sounded right I could take it.
I focus a lot more how they sound and play than how they look.
The one in the op looks ok to me, If it played well and sounded right I could take it.
I like em’, but I’m a weirdo.
I want the humbucker in the neck position.
I want the humbucker in the neck position.
stormsedge
Poster Extraordinaire
HSS...
...a mixed up HSS, that is SHS
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Collect them all, trade with your friends.
...a mixed up HSS, that is SHS
. Collect them all, trade with your friends.
bgmacaw
Doctor of Teleocity
Sometimes you just have to try something different...
boop
Tele-Afflicted
Looks ok to me. oof that guitar needs a bath
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An HSS Strat is the last kind of guitar that I'm really aching for. I think it'd be good for my more stoner rock oriented stuff. I've never owned a guitar with a single coil in it before and think it'd be interesting to mess around with, while still having a humbucker in it.
Definitely want it in some shade of blue...
Definitely want it in some shade of blue...
Fiesta Red
Doctor of Teleocity
I like em…reminds me of Jim Suhler.
mkdaws32
Friend of Leo's
That Cal Webway
Poster Extraordinaire
I had a Carvin Bolt with a humbucker in the bridge position.
It was great for my pedal steel imitations and tapping;
it gave it more ooomph without being overpowering.
Clarity.
Oh, and #2 position had good quack.
It was great for my pedal steel imitations and tapping;
it gave it more ooomph without being overpowering.
Clarity.
Oh, and #2 position had good quack.
GreatDaneRock
Tele-Afflicted
I still want a banshee extreme in that green and black quilted pattern, but fixed bridge. Love Schecter guitars.HSS...
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...a mixed up HSS, that is SHS
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Collect them all, trade with your friends.
Yours looks great too. I think your pickguard had more "white marbling" than mine. I hand-picked mine to make sure it buttoned up the guitar right. Black tortoise for the win!!
