"You are a genius, you've solved so many problems for guitarists within this design, this bridge design, this is the mother lode."
"Dave Mustaine, a metal legend, never was into his signature models though, you know, pointy metal guitars and all that."
"Few guitar designs have been as influential, important, and loved as the Fender Stratocaster."
"So Daniel set out to design a guitar that was inexpensive to manufacture and had enough quality that would not discourage a new player, a difficult thing to do at an entry-level price point."
"Everything about this guitar is designed to be I how would you say it just like ergonomically aesthetically like Precision for guitar playing like it's meant to make everything easier."
"I wonder if in the future... if life ever says Dev, you know what you need? You need to go live on a beach somewhere and just make beautiful ambient sounds while we design the guitar for it. And this is it, man. I love this thing."
"The scale length is the absolute most important thing to look out for when considering what you want to buy as your first extended range or extended scale guitar."
"The guitar featured spruce top with maple back and sides, bolt on maple neck and 2 DeArmond golden tone pickups."
"If you're looking for a place on an acoustic guitar to really be innovative, I think the back is very fertile for that."
"This guitar is double X braced and has a really interesting tone; it's very warm and mid-present."
"It's a smart guitar; you've got like a whole freaking computer in the top of this thing."
"Most guitars even remotely like this don't have that feature, so that's a game changer in itself."
"It's a more resonant guitar, it's designed to be that way, its finish is really allowing it to breathe, it's really allowing it to move freely."
"One of the biggest strengths of this guitar is its beautiful simple clean finish."
"It's definitely a C-shaped neck here, it's a little bit chunky but not over the top."
"This guitar ignited my love for single pickup, just bare bones simple as it gets guitars."
"The taper of the neck changes a little bit as it goes up the neck to make it kind of faster and more comfortable."
"The very best guitar in the world is one with a giant metal disc in the middle of it that you are playing fun stuff on."
"The neck carve itself I have to say is amazing, it feels really good."
"The design of the headstock and the pearloid logo is understated and classic."
"The fan frets are very comfortable; it kind of follows the taper of your hand."
"It's a very flat fretboard, which I like; I think it makes playing, especially more complex chords, really easy."
"It's a really cool Les Paul Custom, and it's got the Super 400 inlays."
"The people that designed this guitar are the same luthiers who built guitars for John Lennon."
"Now it's just a question of carving away everything that doesn't look like a headstock."
"The guitar itself just looks great."
"The modern design of the steel-string flattop dreadnought was established in 1934."
"After years of being jealous of Chris, I got to design guitars for our store."
"I really think Leo Fender absolutely knocked it out of the park with those two."
"Oh my goodness, if you hate SGs because they usually have thin necks, don't have to worry about that on this bad boy because it is nice and chunky."
"That thing is beautiful, floating pickup, single control, awesome flame top."
"This guitar is an intimate small body that is really designed for people who are playing fingerstyle or light picking and strumming."
"Brand new guitars are artificially aged to look and sound old."
"I'm absolutely in love with the look of the whole thing."
"I like it 'cause you can see the wood grain underneath, and especially when you've got the pickup covers on, it just makes the guitar stand out so much."
"Torsion bar design keeps you in tune even if you break a string."
"The Stratocaster was so well thought out that today, nearly 70 years later, thousands of builders around the world still reproduce it with hardly any changes."
"It feels like a traditional early 60s kind of Strat neck to me."
"I loved it because it was single bound, so you can see it just has binding on the front and no binding on the back."
"I love this endless 7th fret end light; it has like flame in it on top of all the abalone goodness."
"The neck is thin and fast, and the headstock angles back slightly."
"The edges are all rounded off and this makes the guitar feel so much smoother and nicer to play."
"It's like Firebird meets Telecaster."
"Rolled fretboard edges... they allow better access to the upper frets and I like an unhindered playing experience."