This Japanese strat was picked up quite cheaply in an end-of-line sale at the infamous "Mr. Tiles" in Cologne. I was a bit disappointed with it to start off with, but then I added two springs to the tremolo, screwed it back tight and changed the strings to 10's. That brought it to it's present lovely clean sound. All of the slide guitar is played on this, as is a lot of rhythm and some of the solos on the album.