FINALLY MY SEARCH IS OVER, IM OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN JIMI HENDRIX FIRST CAME OUT AND THAT WAS IT, I WANTED TO PLAY GUITAR . I STARTED OUT WITH A LES PAUL COPY AND THEN REAL LES PAULS BUT MY GUITAR HEROS PLAYED STRATS , SO ABOUT EVERY 5 YRS OR SO I WOULD BY BUY A STRAT AND WANT TO LOVE IT . EVERY TIME THE GUITAR WOULD LAST LESS THAN A YEAR BEFORE I SOLD IT AND WENT BACK TO A LES PAUL . STRATS JUST SOUNDED TOO WEAK. SKIP TO 2023 AND I FOUND AN AMERICAN PRO 2 STRATOCASTER THAT PLAYED GREAT HAD A TON OF RESONANCE AND SOUNDED GREAT ACOUSTICALLY SO I BOUGHT IT . NOT TO MENTION IT WAS IN OLYMPIC WHITE, SO DESPITE THE THIN SOUNDING FACTORY PICK UPS I HAD TO MAKE THIS GUITAR WORK , I HAD TO MAKE IT SOUND BEAUTIFUL BUT POWERFUL LIKE HENDRIX, BLACKMORE, GILMOUR & TROWER . I LIKE ALOT OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF MUSIC BUT MOSTLY ROCK , MY IDEA OF COUNTRY MUSIC IS LYNARD SKYNARD, ALLMAN BROTHERS, AND MARSHALL TUCKER. LINDY FRALIN’S STEEL POLE 42’s TURNED OUT TO BE EXACTLY WHAT I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR ALL THIS TIME ; THEY CAN BE BEAUTIFUL WITH SHIMMERING HIGHS THAT ARE NOT SPIKY— THEY CAN DO EDGE OF BREAKUP WITH A TOUCH SENSITIVE SNARL—-OR THEY CAN ROAR WITH A FUZZ PEDAL WITH EXCELLENT STRING DEFINITION —THEY ALWAYS SOUND FULL AND YES THEY ROCK, MY STRAT NOW GETS MORE ATTENTION, THAN MY OTHER GUITARS GET, BECAUSE THANKS TO FRALIN PICKUPS, I NOW HAVE THE SOUNDS I ALWAYS HEARD ON RECORDS AND IN MY HEAD. IF YOU CAN RELATE TO ANY OF THIS, DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND GET A FULL SET OF STEEL POLE 42’s , ALSO—- CUSTOMER SERVICE IS TOP NOTCH, LINDY AND HIS WHOLE CREW ARE THERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE .
