New Partscaster Build (Pic Heavy)

johnl

Having decided that I very much didn't need any more guitars I made the mistake of browsing ebay and seeing a solid rosewood strat neck with only a few minutes left to run. Inevitably it is now mine and I'm starting to pull together some pieces to make what I think is going to end up being a rather special guitar.

Firstly - the neck:


Very, very chuffed with this. Made by Guitarbuild Miami (who, naturally, are based in Brasil) - it's a lovely, comfy neck with some particularly excellent fretwork and...well just look at it:   
The look I'm going for is this:


but with gold hardware inspired by David Gilmour's 0001 strat. Pickups and wiring will be done by @TheGuitarWeasel and Rich @lamf68 will be spraying the body (currently on its way from guitarbuild) so all in all a fair amount of man hours are going to go into making this just so I can sort of almost play the solo to comfortably numb. The only part I'm not sure about is hardware - does anyone have any suggestions for very good (and very gold) strat hardware?

TwoSpellWizard

I was also watching that neck on eBay! Glad to see it's going towards a worthy project.

johnl

Hardware and strings on and it's already looking pretty sexual: