MIM strat upgrades

ChaosJunky135

 A few years ago i walked into my local music store to buy strings and walked out with this beautiful guitar. Plays much nicer than a lot of american strats i have played. so i finally decided to give her some love and give he an upgrade. Here is a list of things i have done to her over the past few weeks.

• Pickups : all Dimarzio.

• Super distortion in the bridge

• Area 58 in the middle Out of phase when coil tapped

• Air Norton in the neck 

• Push Push Coil tap 

• Wilkinson bridge (locked down) 

• Sperzel Locking tuners

And this is her now. In my opinion one of the best looking and playing strats i have ever played!!! And still works out cheaper than a USA standard as i got her second hand, Still considering having a real nice flame maple neck built for her but i love the feel of this one too much for now 
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Fretwired

I got an early Mexican in a trade but I loved the body weight and neck but not the pickups. My upgrades (over time) included:

• Kinman noiseless pickups and new wiring
  
• New fixed bridge and saddles
  
• Roland GK internal pickup fitted

There was a guy on the old Guitarist forum did a Trigger's broom. He had an excellent blog on the various upgrades from a new neck to pickups, wiring, bridge, tuners, knobs scratchplate  and in the end he got a new body. There was nothing left of the original guitar .. can't remember his name ...

@ChasJunky135 .. your guitar looks cool. Some nice components in the upgrade. How does it sound?

ChaosJunky135

Fretwired said:

I got an early Mexican in a trade but I loved the body weight and neck but not the pickups. My upgrades (over time) included:

• Kinman noiseless pickups and new wiring
  
• New fixed bridge and saddles
  
• Roland GK internal pickup fitted

There was a guy on the old Guitarist forum did a Trigger's broom. He had an excellent blog on the various upgrades from a new neck to pickups, wiring, bridge, tuners, knobs scratchplate  and in the end he got a new body. There was nothing left of the original guitar .. can't remember his name ...

@ChasJunky135 .. your guitar looks cool. Some nice components in the upgrade. How does it sound?

I love these pickups, the coil split options sound better than the original single coils. They give me everything from screaming metal to crystal cleans at the push of a switch. I love everything about this guitar now and haven't picked up any of my others worth more than 3x the price since i have done these mods