When I was a child I dispised the strat just because I perceived it as "the standard", which I saw as "the devil" (again, I was a child XD). A couple of friends of mine had black and white strats and gosh I hated that design XD
Then, when I was 27, I bought a Strat Billy Corgan Signature and loved every single piece of it. The humbucker in single coil shape pickups were amazing. But I missed my other guitar's (a Jackson Dinky DK2S) floating tremolo (although I didn't like the floyd rose at all) and Sustainiac pickup.
So I asked a local "luthier" (actually more like an "assembler") if he could make a strat like mine, but with a floating tremolo (not the floyd rose) and the Sustainiac pickup, and that's been my guitar since 2010 (body and neck were Warmoth's). I changed the body in 2014 to a chambered, transparent red one (it was metallic grey, solid) and now I'm about to change the neck to a poly gloss finish one (the current one was satin, and after a few years I've realized I prefer the Fender poly gloss finish), and now it looks like this:
Looks awesome (to me, of course), sounds awesome and feels very light and comfortable. Once I get the new neck, I'll change the pickguard to a full black matte one.
Now I recently discovered the Jazzmaster (I mean, I already knew it, but I've been learning a lot about it in the last few weeks) and I'm making a custom one, which would be just like my Strat (same pickups, same colours, same maple neck unlike the JM), but with a Jazzmaster body and tremolo
![Smiley :)](./images/smilies/smiley.gif)
I feel like I'm giving a brother to my current guitar lol.
PS: to this day, though, I still hate the black body with white pickguard typical Strat XD To me, it's really boring. And I also dislike the typical Jazzmaster pearl pickguards too
![Grin ;D](./images/smilies/grin.gif)