I also got an American Strat recently and it's all I've been playing. Mine does have the RW fretboard, but I guess I am used to that. Funny thing is I had a Squier Strat that I gave away to my Dad a few months ago. I am no gear snob, but there is something about this Strat that speaks to me when the Squier didn't. It's not the name, just something different. I think even though Leo left the company long before he died, some of his spirit stayed in the design. I just love it to death and I'd have to say that I am, overall, a humbucker kind of guy.
...so ever since then, I always hang on to the buckle.
