Thanks for missing me, Luis ; )
I just got back from Madrid, Spain, and before that, Yokosuka, Japan. I was out of the US for 7 years and it is really strange being back where everyone speaks your native language! I am really excited to be with my 90+ guitars again though! For the last 2 years I had one guitar, my Seymour Duncan DS-200/M strat and that was it. I couldn't take anything else with me since they wouldn't pay for it to be shipped.
So it is like many Christmases all at once being able to play all my guitars again. I know, it's kind of ridiculous to have that many, and that's why I am selling out, trying to whittle them down to my favorite 10. That is HARD, though.
As far as Navigators and Edwards are concerned... the worst thing about the Edwards is the top finish... you first have this really nice satin nitro and THEN after you play it a while, it rubs off to shiny new poly underneath and looks hideous. Nothing you can do about that except wear the entire guitar's finish down, which is harder than you think.
The Edwards are great for players, and I love the relic models because you get a real lacquer finish and can see that the wood is better on those since the wood shows. They are great guitars on a budget.
But, I ended up getting a Navigator and there was just no comparison. Even the strats have appointments that are just crazy... like individual fret edge binding on a strat and/or on a tele... yep. I guess Fender did a few like this in the early 60's but it got too time-consuming and difficult so they stopped that practice. Well, Navigator did that on many of their earlier 2000s models. Even my '52 tele with a maple fretboard has this individual fret edge binding carved by hand up to meet the edges of each fret - talk about a smooth feel... no other company I have ever seen did that or does that now - not even Fender Master Grade guitars have that as far as I have seen.
But, the new Navigators are not like the early 2000s models. They bear the same model numbers in most cases, but have not been up to par with the earlier ones - like on the strats and teles, they now put the serial number on the back of the headstocks. Not stamped into the neck plate like the early ones. And the cool fret-edge binding I described on mine - they don't do that anymore either.
BTW, my Seymour Duncan DS-200/R (the blue one on my site) has this fret-edge bidning as well. Not standard for sure, and there are not many like that in existence. I have seen a lot of them. And I had a DS-280Pro a while back and that one didn't even have it - go figure.