70strathead":16wukldy said:
feel good about it, grow up with it, play the fuck out of it ( yes with single coils), and your individuality will gleam. I never understood why people would take a great stratocaster and have the intentions of getting a strat sound, then they take it and put humbucker in it. EVH is different because he intented integrated a gibson sound with the strat look/feel. I recently saw somebody put a hot rails duncan in a E.J. strat, on both neck and bridge...that just boggle my mind, fuckin ruin a perfectly good strat with all the right components..might as well just settle for a guitar thats built for humbuckers.
I ruined one of my EJs with a humbucker in the bridge, but I guess I was wrong for thinking since it was my guitar I could do what I needed for my musical expression.

In my case, I love the neck and middle pickup tones, but need to be able to get aggresive HB tones too, so I did that with the guitar. It's best of both worlds for me, and certainly not 'ruined' in my opinion unless you have an extremely limited view of what works.
Pete