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A brief history of the Strata
The Strata bass was Rob Green's first approach to creating the ultimate
bass. It was though that Rob made only 16 instruments in his original first ever batch of basses
and he named them the "Strata". After having found Strata N°
20 (below) we are no longer sure of how many were actually made before
... Fender stepped in issuing law
proceedings claiming that the Strata name was too close to the
Stratocaster and put an end to that. Rob Green was forced to change the
name of the instruments to "Status" and rename the instruments by
fitting another bridge with the new name on. A very small number of the
instruments had sold by this time and Rob was unable to trace them for
the re-branding ...
If you own a Strata please let us know so we can
trace as many as possible - Thank you!
The Strata Guitar
The Strata Basses (Go
here for more Strata details and reviews)
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Serial N° 05
4 string, fretless currently belongs to
themoo
(United Kingdom)
Built in 1982, this Strata has a flame maple/ash body
finished in clear lacquer and a graphite through neck. Two
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Serial N° 8
Last seen on Ebay in March 2008 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=140212528395) |
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Serial N° 9
4 string, fretted currently belongs to
Wil (United Kingdom) which he has had since 1986 |
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Serial N° 10
4 string, fretted currently belongs to
xsoqbass (Australia)
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Serial N° 11
4 string, fretted, currently belongs to
chucky (United Kingdom)
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Serial N° 16
4 string fretted, made in July 1983, currently belongs to
andre
(Switzerland)
Original spec sheet hand written by Rob, the bass features
classic graphite through neck construction with an ebony fret board, a flame
maple front, walnut inner veneer and amazaque (ovangkol)
back with herringbone inlays. Pickups are GMT with an active bass/treble circuit.
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Serial N° 20
4 string fretted, made in July 1983, currently belongs to
mcdonap (USA).This Strata
actually belonged to Mike Rutherford. I bought it a few
years back when a bunch of Genesis stuff was auctioned off
on eBay.
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Serial N° 24
4 string fretless, currently belongs to BP.
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Serial N° 28
This beautiful black
4 string fretless, currently belongs to Phil Spalding
(thanks for the pics Phil!)
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