The Watering Hole

A customer came in today to get his guitar worked on.  Our guitar tech yelled at me to come over.  The customer brought in an old Strat...a 1966 Strat.

This thing had one of the nicest Strat necks I've EVER had the privilege of playing.  Feel, action, etc...perfection.  Action was nice and low yet had zero buzz.  Played really easy.  Everything on it was original.  It was an ash body and had to be one of the heaviest Strats I've picked up (big surprise there considering the wood).  

Sigh...

Nice!

Back when I first started playing in the early 1960's, this dude gave another geezer a 57 strat, and I used to play on it all of the time. We'd get all kranked up, and play those old guitars all night long until our fingers bled. I loved those days. Anyways that strat was the nicest one I ever played. Last year I went home and when visiting friends at his dock (boat dock) I told old Herman what the value of that guitar was, just so he did not die ignorant. Anyways if that guitar lasted to this day in near as good a condition, it tops a hundred grand in the collectors market.