ST-90SA Swamp Ash DLX Series : Decent, decent guitar

I am positively amazed by this guitar!

Arrived with a reasonably decent setup. So far I only made very quick-n-dirty adjustments on truss-rod relief and strings intonation. Haven't even changed the strings on it but I will try to set the action lower at some point.

PUs are lovely and sound like a proper strat, don't feel the need to change them AT ALL.

The neck is quite thicker than I expected and although I would prefer a skinnier neck, it plays comfortably. Frets are polished enough that it won't feel like 100-grit sandpaper (like for example in the HB-35). I will be fine polishing them soon though.

Pots are good, 5-way selector is more on the cheap side of things but does it's job well, for now (it still feels better than the common Chinese crappy ones).

Tremolo & saddleblock are solid and rather good quality.

Tuners are fine but not the greatest, I may replace them in the future with 18:1 ratio tuners of better quality.

The nut seems made of plastic but very nicely shaped. Bought a tusq one together with the guitar but haven't bothered yet to change it. Maybe when I bother to change the strings.

Stuff that is really nothing to worry about and much better than expected for the price but I will perhaps do in the future:

- change 5-way selector and perhaps add push/pull pot for "guilmour mod"

- clean-up a bit the cut edges of the pickguard

- replace tuners with greater ratio ones

- go to the gym and exercise to handle the guitar. It's heavy, people.

I don't find it very hard to resist modding it (which is strange for me). It's a proper guitar and there's nothing urging to be improved on it, really.