Having grown up at a time when Hendrix & Blackmore had been the leading guitar heroes playing Strats - the big-head ones - I haven't ever been fully reconditioned by the sniffers to see them as wrong & bad. There was a time after Hendrix died when Fenders were not as popular as Les Pauls, at least as lust objects in the eyes of kids, and the vintage thing hadn't kicked in at all. So kids staring at Fender catalogs were staring at big-head CBS models, not knowing that "the old ones were better." I owned one of the original Tele Deluxes for a while, and Steve Morse put a big-head Strat neck on his Telestein monster, so it looks balanced to me... the sniffers sound unbalanced, to me.... :icon_scratch: Peghead weight = tone, in my experience, it can just be inconvenient if you want to dance around on stage without holding your guitar neck up.