ST-25TH Firemist : BEST HB STRAT and push/pull volume

I was looking for a decent budget strat like guitar, but I stay away from strats due to 1 specific reason...tremelo. They're not Floyd Rose tremelos by an means and 90+% of the time, they suck. This guitar has a slightly upgraded tremelo over the other HB strats and with stainless frets sold me. I was pleasantly surprised by the blade bridge pickup, it's pretty damn hot. It's just about as hot as any Rosewill humbucker. The pickguard is something that jumps out at my wife as it doesn't look good to us. It's an odd mint and I will be trying to replace it with a white like there's on the Te-25th, as that Iooks much cleaner. The guitar has a 5 way pickup selector and a push/pull pot on the volume for more tones. Excellent guitar.