Falcon Mini-Stratocaster

This is a Falcon mini-Stratocaster, which I had from my father at my 5:th birtday - five years ago. It has the half size of a real Stratocaster.I think it is made in the USA in the middle of the 90's. It has 21 frets. It has as 1 volume and 1 tone control and a 5-way selector. It has three Falcon single-coil pickups. Body probably maple, neck maple and rosewood finger-board. It has a tremolo-arm, which is not so well functioning. It has olympic-white body and looks a bit like Jimi Hendrix's guitar even if Jimi Hendrix often had maple finger-board.

The sound is surprisingly stratocaster-like. The neck pick-up gives a full and rich sound, and the others sounds well too. The middle/bridge-position gives a light howling sound which fits well for rock&roll. Still it is too week for my style, which is bluesoriented rock and AC/DC. My daddy use it to play country but for AC/DC-stuff it is not the perfect choice. Country and softer jazz is perfect. I am using a Music Man 50W and sometimes a delay effect. It is possible to get a lot of sounds from this guitar. Like I said it is perfect for country and a little bit of pop and rock. I like the sound and the finger-board, but it is now too small for me.

The guitar had 0.10 strings from the factory, but I changed to 0.9 and that was better for me. It is a surprisingly good guitar: most people believe it is a toy-guitar but can't understand how it is possible to make it sound as an ordinary Stratocaster. The tremolo-syetm does not work at all.

I have played live with it many times. The bridge has lost one of its screws - it had not a perfect fit in its hole.The tremolo-arm have never functioned. Otherwise the durability is good.

Never have had a contact.

This is my first guitar, I got it when I was five. Now I am 10. If it was stolen, I would not buy it again since it now is too small for me. I'm planning to buy an Epiphone SG of normal size. That will fit my playing style better.