Thanks fot interesting opinion.. so why you say that once you get better and better I would want to play a strat? something is gonna happen to my hands? Actually I already have a strat, not the american one but a mexican, with tex mex pickups on it, it s a great guitar and dont have any complaints. However, personally I find more comfortable the neck of a Gibson but probably it really depends on the mood.. I think I will keep my roadworn 60s strat and get a Les Paul too if I will have enough money.