<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8854008952272005244</id><updated>2009-05-08T13:52:22.599-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Guitar GAS - Gear Acquisition Syndrome</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8854008952272005244/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://guitar-gas.com/blogger/index.htm'/><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://guitar-gas.com/blogger/atom.xml'/><author><name>guitargasonline</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04196384742510269044</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8854008952272005244.post-7650334137180087810</id><published>2009-05-01T20:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-04T06:41:10.374-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fender'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='50&apos;s'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stratocaster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road Worn'/><title type='text'>Fender Road Worn 50's Stratocaster Electric Guitar</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/6/1/8/575618.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 236px;" src="http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/6/1/8/575618.jpg" alt="Fender Road Worn 50's Stratocaster" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK, I know what you're thinking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"They want how much for a guitar that looks like it's been dragged behind a car?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's hard to put into words, but these guitars give the visual impression of "dues paid".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've played one recently and liked the way it felt and sounded when I plugged it in. Still bothers me that it's made in Mexico, but I'm sure the USA version would be 3 times the price.&lt;br /&gt;Overall, it plays nice and sounds good. Some differnces between this and the other Mexican strats include: Nitro finish, larger fretwire and different pickups.&lt;br /&gt;Nice guitar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/8854008952272005244-7650334137180087810?l=guitar-gas.com%2Fblogger%2Findex.htm'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8854008952272005244/7650334137180087810/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://guitar-gas.com/blogger/2009/05/fender-road-worn-50s-stratocaster.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8854008952272005244/posts/default/7650334137180087810'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8854008952272005244/posts/default/7650334137180087810'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://guitar-gas.com/blogger/2009/05/fender-road-worn-50s-stratocaster.html' title='Fender Road Worn 50&apos;s Stratocaster Electric Guitar'/><author><name>guitargasonline</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04196384742510269044</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry></feed>