Originally Posted by: elklanderccI know my guitar didn't come with the nick, I was playing it one day after several months of playing on it when I did a bend and heard something hitting the string and making it ring. Turned out to be the nick. (sp on nick?)

What I was saying early wasn't that the guitar came with the nick. Rather, the frets were cut in a way that makes it a lot more likely that a chunk of the fretwire will pull away. In the fasion that it did for elklandercc. It's likely that since your Strat was only a few months old at the time that that's what caused it... For elk and for pure.