Antoniotsai Stratocaster Copy

Custom handmade in Vietnam by Antoniotsai with all the stratocaster features. It has teal green finish like the original US Made Highway 1 stratocasters, so it has more of a satin appearance than glossy. Perfect stratocaster style body, very solid and quite heavy for a strat. It has a standard stratocaster tremelo, which is made of bent solid steel instead of some cheaper materials. It's got gotoh tuners on it with 22 medium frets on a rosewood fretboard. It came with an incredibly nice gig bag. It is a solid top with standard stratocaster controls being 2 tone and one volume control with a 7 way selector switch so that you can use all three pickups at the same time or the bridge and neck pickups together. It has 3 alnico 5 passive pickups. It's made of solid alder with a maple neck and rosewood fretboard. What is incredible is the headstock and inlay work that he did on this guitar, it is absolutely stunning. I have to max this one out - since we are talking about features and looks. It looks awesome and has all the features you could ask for.

I play blues, blues rock, classic 60's and 70's rock, country and folk. I have my hard rock and metal moods and with these alnico pups and 7 way selector switch it will do metal quite well. I've got a bunch of amps I have collected over the years, a VOX AC 30, a Marshall JCM 900 Combo, Peavey Classic 30, Peavey Valveking, Laney VC15, Orange Crush 30R, and a Behringer V Toner GMX 210. This guitar sounds great on all these amps. Since it has the alnico 5 pups and the 7 way selector switch, it tends to have more midrange than most strats, but you can get yourself a good twang on the bridge pup if you just adjust the amp's EQ. On my other strats, I would put the low on 7, the mids on 4 and the highs on 6 so that I could get more of a beefier crunch, but this guitar seems to work best with the amps set a 6 on the high, 2 on the mid and 5 on the bass. It has a rich full sound, kind of in between a stratocaster and a les paul with those settings. I can't give any guitat a 10 on sound because I have not came across the one guitar that will do anything I want it to do yet. This comes close, but misses the mark a little, so I'll give it an 8.

It arrived here perfectly in tune, everything was adjusted perfectly -
I didn't even need to adjust the truss rod. No flaws - very well packed.

Yes, most definitely this guitar will withstand live playing - it does three nights a week. Hardware is steel, so I don't think it's gonna go bad anytime soon. Finish is great, it hasn't let me down yet, so it is dependable. Although I have never even broken a string while gigging with this guitar, no musician would gig without a backup.

They were very polite, good communication and very concerned that I got a good product.

I've been playing for 45 years and I have way too much gear to list here because that is what everyone gives me for gifts. I already bought another one in a different color - so yes, I would definitely get another one if it were lost or stolen. I love the weight - a good solid strat with some weight behind it which gives it one heck of a lot of sustain.