Ok, so a friend of mine clued me in via his bass teacher that a local music shop was having a humungogigantic sale for the holiday season. I figured I'd go and dive face first into the shop and see what they had to offer. After a while I'd found a brand new american fender stratocaster deluxe up for grabs marked down to $950. The guy threw in a half off hardshell case too since I was friends with one of his students. Sadly it's in layaway right now. If my job gives me a bonus check then it's almost entirely going to that guitar.