Originally Posted by DC Ron
Fender has tried to improve the Stratocaster SO many times. S-1 switching. Lace Sensor pickups. Roller nuts. The list goes on. Thankfully, they keep rolling it back to something close to Leo's original design.

I actually like the Lace Sensor pickups, I have them in one of my strats. Never cared for the Gold ones, mine has the Red, Silver and Blue set. I'm on a Strat user group over on FB and lots of people still swear by them.
I also like the Fender Noiseless pickups they introduced a few years later, I have them in my '04 strat which is my main guitar.
And I would argue that the five way switch that was introduced in the late 70's is a definite improvement over the original three way switch that Leo chose.

To each his own I guess! wink