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{{a|g|[[File:Strat.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Says it all really.]]}}The greatest piece of design in the last two hundred years is Leo Fender's wonderful [[Stratocaster]]: a design so good that noone has managed to improve it at all since Fender invented it in 1954. Ok: maybe the introduction of a rosewood fretboard in 1959. But that’s it. And it kills fascists, too.
 
[[Stratocaster|Stratocasters]] aren’t really {{tag|metaphor}}s for anything in particular. I just like them.
 
[[File:59 strat-1 1.jpg|thumb|a 1959, rosewood slab-board stratocaster]]

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The greatest piece of design in the last two hundred years is Leo Fender's wonderful Stratocaster: a design so good that noone has managed to improve it at all since Fender invented it in 1954. Ok: maybe the introduction of a rosewood fretboard in 1959. But that’s it. And it kills fascists, too.

Stratocasters aren’t really metaphors for anything in particular. I just like them.

a 1959, rosewood slab-board stratocaster