yes, kind sir, they are. MIM strats just piss me off and american made strat prices make my blood boil. MIJ strats are acceptable.
someone else said it best: "youre buying the brand, not the guitar..."
im the wrong person to ask on this one. i have an eclipse, after one of our first shows a friend of ours said that he thought i was playing a mini guitar cus it looked so small on my fat ass :(
yeah dude Im sorta a fat dude and I rock a fender jazzmaster it fits the gut pretty good if you dig that jazzmaster sound, and J. Mascis is pretty gutty these days and it still works for him fender=fat dudes ahhaha!