I will always have this urge to hear certain guitars in action. So it's a Friday evening, it's the holiday eve, time for some Strat action. This is my Traditional 70s Japanese Strat which could be purchased for $1.3K back in the day (pre-COVID).
This is also my opportunity to share some opinion on the Alice guitar strings (.009 set) since the guitar requires a re-string before proceedings.
The respective gauges were neatly latched into the holes as seen above so that strings don't get entangled when uncoiled for use.
Despite all these efforts in upgrading their product packaging / presentation, the immediate impact here is the feel. The Alice of today still feels like a sub-par budget set, these could not match Olympia considering both are in the same price bracket. I have no idea if these should be installed immediately upon purchase but more than two weeks have passed before I got things going. I might give it a benefit of the doubt & maybe try another set just to eliminate this mitigating factor. For the record, the most repulsive strings that I've come across in terms of feel is the Orphee brand. This Alice set, I must say, sits above the Orphee but still not quite appealing. It's like some chemical reactions took place in the packaging before the strings were installed & the fingers could actually feel this difference.
