FAT Strat

[just strum]

FAT Strat - SHOW US YOUR FAT

I had asked sometime back what is a FAT Strat and you guys said it's an HSS. It made sense and every Strat I saw noted as FAT Strat was an HSS. However, I notices a couple of Strats on E-bay noted as FAT, but having three singles. Are these just misidentified?

 

[thearabianmage]

Maybe one of the pups was a mini humbucker? If not, then I'd say yes - misidentified. . .

 

[Spudman]

I would ask the posters of those auctions instead of us. How would we know?

 

[marnold]

I agree with Joe. Unless at least one of the singles is a single-size humbucker, it ain't fat. It might be phat, but not fat.

 

[just strum]

I'm not interested as far as purchase, I was just looking at the page and it struck me as being odd, but then again...

I thought maybe I was wrong about the FAT label.

 

[just strum]

I would ask the posters of those auctions instead of us. How would we know?

Assumed someone here would. I don't have an ebay account anymore, so even if I was compelled to...

 

[markb]

Fender used the terms "Fat" and "Double Fat" for a while before switching to the more descriptive HSS and HH. Technically a "Fat Strat" is only one from the period when Fender was using that terminology but meanwhile back in the real world anything goes

 

[duhvoodooman]

In my expereince, "fat" applied to a Strat always implies presence of a humbucker, usually full-sized and in the bridge position.

 

[just strum]

Before I had a Fender or Squier, I thought the term had something to do with the thickness of the body.

 

[Spudman]

In my expereince, "fat" applied to a Strat always implies presence of a humbucker, usually full-sized and in the bridge position.

Exactly.

Now a "Super Strat" does not mean a Strat with blue tights and a red cape.

 

[just strum]

Exactly.

Now a "Super Strat" does not mean a Strat with blue tights and a red cape.

But that is a sales idea - beats a $20,000 intentionally beat up Strat.

 

[markb]

Exactly.

Now a "Super Strat" does not mean a Strat with blue tights and a red cape.

Do you mean a guitar with its underpants on the outside?

 

[just strum]

Do you mean a guitar with its underpants on the outside?

From the Madonna collection?

 

[markb]

From the Madonna collection?

Not pointy enough for that, maybe if they did an Explorer type

http://www.electric-babes.net/index.php

 

[just strum]

Not pointy enough for that, maybe if they did an Explorer type

http://www.electric-babes.net/index.php

I think Marnold has the pointy Madonna guitar collection.

 

[hubberjub]

Here's my Fat Strat. It's a '91 Fender American Standard. I've replaced all of the pickups with Seymour Duncan single coil sized humbuckers. A Lil' '59 in the bridge, a Vintage Rail in the middle, and a Cool Rail in the neck. I still think of it as a fat strat even though it doesn't look like one.

 

[helliott]

My #1 is an American Fat Strat. Humbucker in the bridge position.

 

[just strum]

My #1 is an American Fat Strat. Humbucker in the bridge position.

Let's see a pic of your Fat Strat

Here's mine, seen many times before by me and its previous owner, Plank

 

[sunvalleylaw]

I am jealous of that one Strum. Looks like a great axe. So does Hubberjub's but I really like the standard type 'bucker in the bridge.

 

[just strum]

I am jealous of that one Strum. Looks like a great axe. So does Hubberjub's but I really like the standard type 'bucker in the bridge.

Hubberjub's is a fine guitar, I wouldn't mind one like that. I still want to get my white Fender Strat with a maple neck. That is what I was looking for when Plank threw temptation before my eyes. Although he sidetracked me, I never have had a regret - well, maybe I had wished it was white, but other than that, no regrets.

 

[marnold]

Here's my modified Floyd Rose DST-3 with a Seymour Duncan Screamin' Demon in the bridge and Dimarzio Area '61s in the middle and neck:

Larger version

 

[helliott]

www.box.net/files#1:f:0:1:f_237404106

pic of fat strat as requested by Strum

 

[just strum]

www.box.net/files#1:f:0:1:f_237404106

pic of fat strat as requested by Strum

Can't get in.

 

[just strum]

Here's my modified Floyd Rose DST-3 with a Seymour Duncan Screamin' Demon in the bridge and Dimarzio Area '61s in the middle and neck:

Larger version

Very nice Marnold. What did that look like before the mods?

 

[marnold]

Very nice Marnold. What did that look like before the mods?

A little something like this:

Larger version

The rest of the details are in this thread. I much prefer the black pup/control look vs. the white. The pickguard is pearloid and sort of off-white so I didn't think the two worked so hot together. The new pickups sound tons better, especially the single coils.

 

[just strum]

I like the black pups, they give it an edge. You need some wood filler for that whole in the headstock - how many times has that been said to you? Probably like bald jokes, there isn't one I haven't heard.

 

[marnold]

I like the black pups, they give it an edge. You need some wood filler for that whole in the headstock - how many times has that been said to you? Probably like bald jokes, there isn't one I haven't heard.

I think the reason these guitars didn't sell well is partially because of the special strings required but mainly because of the headstock. I'd rather have it like that than headless. I've always thought a miniature stained glass window would look cool in there.

I always have to laugh how much guitarists get caught up in headstock shape.

 

[just strum]

I've always thought a miniature stained glass window would look cool in there.

That would be a cool mod.

 

[Dreadman]

Before I had a Fender or Squier, I thought the term had something to do with the thickness of the body.

Oddly enough there is a difference in body thickness. American Strats are 3/16" thicker than imports - at least the ones I've seen. Anyone else notice that?

 

[bigoldron]

Oddly enough there is a difference in body thickness. American Strats are 3/16" thicker than imports - at least the ones I've seen. Anyone else notice that?

I found out the hard way that Affinity Squiers are thinner. I bought the tremolo/steel block kit from Guitar Fetish and it sticks out the back of the guitar.