I bought a new guitar in November. It never came. It was on backorder into January, so I canceled it. Then I got a hard-on for a sweet Fender Stratocaster with a mahogany body, gorgeous red finish and black headstock, a humbucking bridge pick-up and a fast, maple neck. But it was a right-handed model. They didn’t make a left-handed one. I am not Hendrix. I passed on it.

In my dejection over the red and black Strat not turning out, I re-purchased the guitar I’d ordered in November. It came at the end of February and I’ve had it about a week.

At first glance, she’s a beauty. Nice, glossy black finish, black fret-board, pearloid inlays there and in the headstock, which is uniquely shaped to give the axe some nice character. The knobs are a combination clear- and goldish-acrylic, the pick-guard and pickup cradles are somewhat cream colored…

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