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I prefer old strats, particularly ash. The 54 I had was easily the best strat I've personally played. It was a body refin with some repro plastic so it was also MUCH cheaper than something with 0 issues.
It was pretty wow. At the time, around 2009, they wanted $4900 which was about 2x what a custom was going for. I went back and forth for a few weeks on whether to just pull the trigger then one day....it was gone.
I got one the other day. For $250 it's lots of fun and sounds way better than it has any right to. So far I think I like it best with a little hotter humbucker. Sure it's not an SLO 100, no one expects it to be..
The only reason I still have a subscription is because in the early 90's, they did a lifetime subscription offer for $99. I plan on making them honor that agreement for decades yet!!