That will get you the true sound of the strat. They were originally made in America, and the non US models are just over priced crappy copies of the original. I think the USA model is very overpriced. They give a nice rounded woody clean tone. The notes in a chord are beautifully defined.
Blues is fantasitic.
For distorsion you should roll off the tone quite a bit or it will sound very brassy and unapealing. The number two position comes into its own when using lots of gain because the mids are scooped out by the way the parallel impedences of the pu's interact. Just think of the dynamics of grunge. The Strat is a very bright instrument relatively speaking, so on your amp put the treble and midrange down about half that of you bass setting. Use your ears, you don't want to dull out the thing.