Got the new CV Strat on Friday and played it on & off all weekend. It's AMAZING how good of a guitar you can cop for $350 these days. Sucker was ready to play right out of the box, which I think is probably a testament to the checkout by the good folks at Sweetwater. I had to adjust the height on one saddle, but the set-up was otherwise right on the mark. Plays like butter and the pickups just drip vintage Strat tone.

I won't bother posting any photos (yet), since the guitar looks just like the ones above that Sweetwater sent me. But I've ordered a DiMarzio Air Norton humbucker for the bridge and a custom H-S-S pickguard from Warmoth, so the guitar will be looking--and sounding--quite different in a few days....