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I’ve learnt pretty all I know about Fender offset guitars from Mike Adam’s, AKA puisheen, on YouTube and Instagram.

Interesting - I had not noticed that. Amusingly, the tech mentioned that though he is a Gibson man he has often coveted Jaguars when they've come in, and whilst dealing with this he finally succumbed to the GAS and ordered a Fender custom shop model. Apparently, according to what I have read, they were originally meant to be a luxury model to poach Gibson's customers.

Returned today, with a partial refret, new plate, and setup with flatwound 12s.

That is indeed my plan. In addition to some fret and electronics work a new plate on the front should be involved.

In the end I was able to bag a nice Japanese Fender, which is now having some work done on it.

Good evening, @danhkr, and ... ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Filter-trons are an interesting ‘bucker option. Unlike PAF types, they don’t have that muddy honk.

Never really got on with Strats until fairly recently. I've had a few over the years which I didn't really connect with and ended up givig them away, but in the past year I got two which I do like and will keep. The first was a Sunn Mustang, which if you know anything about those, is a license-built Fender Strat made in India for the European market in the late Eighties. That's a very good guitar indeed. Finding that I liked that Mustang, it prompted me to get another Strat, a 1980 model which I relicked the living crap out of and tarted up with a few parts, and that one I really like too. You can see me playing that one through an MG15 here. I guess the moral of the story is, sometimes you have to kiss a lot of frogs.