How's everyone doing? 

This time I'm sharing the guitar that started it all, the one that made me rethink why I played. As a fun fact, before this one I had a Gibson ES-335 Custom Shop Warren Hynes. A spectacular and beautiful guitar, but no matter how hard I tried, humbuckers... they're not my sound, or at least they weren't part of my sound system back then. 

Anyway, I kept searching for that sound that, at 19, I didn't really know where to find, because, being a lifelong Oasis fan, single-coil pickups weren't on my radar (although I always loved the P90s on the Les Paul Goldtop, funny how!). 

Anyway, this one came to me from a good friend who sold it to me with a heavy heart, haha. A very simple guitar compared to how egocentric Gibsons usually are. But as soon as I held it in my hands, I understood why Fender, even in its most questionable era, the '70s, was still a benchmark for a solid wood sound that could destroy amplifiers. It's worth noting that it has noise-free pickups, a modification made by the previous owner, among other things. But what does it matter? It's not the rawest Fender sound, let's say, it's refined. But to say it sounds more like a humbucker than a single-coil just because of the coil-stacked configuration? What nonsense! Sometimes, guitarists make the mistake of focusing too much on what they play and not how they play it. It's a truly spectacular guitar, it weighs about 100 kilos and has many signs of use. In my opinion, that just gives it the personality of someone who has lived almost 50 years. It lived through rock, suffered injuries and a lot of pain, but now it's with me and continues its story. By the way, the Warren Hynes is gone now, and this one stayed; it's been with me for almost 8 years, and maybe it will die before it stops playing. 

Extra fact, her nickname is Kaori

Cheers!

Stratocaster 79, the first of the gang