There’s a new guitar emporium in Nottingham.
PMT has been open a week.
I know this because when I went there today, I tried three Fender Stratocasters, and I asked how long they had been hanging on the wall.
One week. Since we opened (was the smart reply).
Anyway, this is a MIJ Fender:
And this is an American Fender:
And this is another American Fender
You wouldn’t get much change out of £1,000 for any of these three.
I’m not going to buy any of them, I was just checking them for ‘playability’.
Ash said (in not so many words) that I would do better playing with a v-shaped neck Fender Strat, than I would with my Epiphone SG.
And then he let me play one of his v-shaped neck Fender Strats.
OK, so Ash’s Fender has been professionally setup, so the action is much lower on his Fender than it is on my not setup SG.
But notwithstanding this detail, the shape of the Fender Strat neck fits my hands better than the shape of the SG neck.
And I found playing Ash’s professionally setup, v-shaped neck Fender Stratocaster much easier less difficult to play than my SG.
However, all three Fenders felt the same to my inexperienced fingers.
I can tell the difference between the Fenders and my SG, but I can’t tell the Fenders apart.
Anyway, the bottom line to all of this is that I’m looking to sell my acoustic guitar, get the SG professionally setup, and buy a used MIJ Fender.
I’ll try some more this week, but I think all this will do is to reinforce the difference between the SG and a (any?) Fender Stratocaster, to my uneducated fingers.