They have everything in them that I like about a Strat -- vintage radius, vintage frets, impeccable QC, good wood, all the best features of my favorite '60s Strats, pickups sound just like '63,'64,'65 types to me, neck carves are best of early '60s too. Not into sig guitars, like Mayer mostly for keeping the Dead thing alive, but he and Paul deserve a ton of cred for getting these so right. Thanks to SS, I am not on the hunt for vintage '60s Strats half my free time. QC so good on SS that I have 4 now and they are all so identical, except my one maple board (love that they did a lam board on it!), which has somewhat more shouldered neck carve.