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@cookiemonster
Ha - yeah, I get that it’s a little marmite. But if you want to stick with your lute then that’s cool.
It’s a really nice bit of kit but more interestingly it (to me at least) really brings home how visual guitars are. Its so much about the look, whether the classic shapes or the crap designs that we put up with (taking a neck off to adjust a truss road ffs, the crap Tele bridge, or stupid placing of the start volume knob). Or for that matter all the wood nonsense - large head strats have better sustain, people that claim they can hear the difference between ash and alder, and so on.
You get get the sense when you pick this up that Strandberg has thought about each part - what’s needed, what would work best - and arrived at this design.
The lightness and compactness is fantastic - especially in a central London flat where the guitar sits between a cello and piano. Lifting the strat up was like carrying a scaffold pole through a glass shop.
Only thing I’m not sold on is that it lacks the large forearm rest area (or something - I need to pick up the strat again to check what I actually do) for funk - my arm feels a little unconnected. But, yeah, I’m pretty happy so far.