2003 Valley Arts Custom Pro (My Snuffy Walden Strat:)

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Digging this guitar, but, I can only afford to keep one, so, since my Van Nuys Schecter didn't sell, and I have been wanting another Tyler SE (see my screen name/avatar:), this one unfortunately has to go. Up for bids is a Valley Arts Custom Pro in natural...the only other one of these I've seen is the one Snuffy Walden played w/Chaka Khan back in the 80's - it was all maple though (& they generally don't sound as good, as I just offloaded a Steve Lukather I bought at the same time that was all maple, & this one sounds SUBSTANTIALLY better) I'm quite sure I'll regret getting rid of this, as the neck on this thing is a DREAM...VERY Tyleresque, & Very close to the Brent Mason Tele. These are imho some of the finest Floyd equipped Strats I have ever owned, & this one is even better with the Guthrie Govanesque mod he did :) The Floyd is sans fine tuners, the nut is Ebanol, & the tuners are locking...STELLAR...but, If you want the nut/bridge back to it's original state, I'm sure I can have our shop guy do that. Looks like the only thing this dude didn't do uber well, was getting the trem (& pickguard) on cosmetically...it seems originally this was a rear route w/a Wilkinson. Glad he didn't touch the Luke (that I know of:) Pickups were the same as the Luke (SA/SA/85), but were swapped out w/the SAX/SAX/JH...hotter, & MUCH less sterile. Again, I can only afford to keep one w/all o'the COVID Crud goin' on... My apologies for the funky lighting. I am again, not the original owner, but, it does come w/what I believe to be her original fret protector, and a nice gig bag/soft case. The condition is, I'd say only a 7-8 out of 10 cosmetically - sonically/playability wise she's DEF. a 10 imho. Because of the replaced items/condition, I feel she's priced accordingly.