Great! Another challenge…
I was in the planing stage when the challenge announcement was made, so thats a result!
So, whats it to be? Deep down Im a Fender sort of a chap, Strats mostly, not a Fender necessarily, but Strats and to a lesser extent Teles, but Strats is pretty much where Im at..
I have several, all but two are Partscaters, bitsas, abominations, but Strats at heart, ish, if you squint, in the dark.
The “real” Fenders are modded, with pickup changes to reflect what I dislike about Strats, those that have trems are decked, all but one have a high output or humbucking pickup at the bridge, all have the middle tone moved to the bridge.
I suppose I should share photos a my little fucked up family of Strats
Rosie, GSP/WD
All Rosewood sublime, weighs as much as a family hatchback (and its weight relived) its get very little use, no idea why, but its lovely, I should really sell it, but….
Cray, Fender
Hardtail, lovely neck, didn't like the pickups, so it has a JB Jr at the bridge and Creamery SC size P90’s elsewhere
Performer Plus 2020, Fender
The less said about the noisless pickups the better, didnt like them, lots of folk do, but I dont, so they’ve gone.
New scratchplate, JB at the bridge, Iron Gear SC at the neck, lovely neck
Mary Rose Guitarbuild/ WD
One piece Swamp Ash body in Mary Kaye White Blonde, WD Rosewood Tele neck, Steinberger tuners, decent pickups (cant remember what) probably a Sinner neck at the bridge
Coppercaster, Guitarbuild/GSP
Nitro Copper, light relic, relic hardwear, 60’s wind pickups
Eleven*
GSP/Squier
Swamp Ash body/Squier LH neck, Scratchplate from GigInk, decent pickups, reverse slant bridge pickup
Thing
@FatePete body, Booboo neck, Iron Gear Blues Engine
From the sublime to the ridiculous….
*after the character in Stranger Things as its “Upside Down”
So after all that waffle, I bet none of you will guess what the next project will be?
OK…its another bloody Strat shaped object
Subject to minor change
I have a body blank that Ive never had the bottle to have a hack at, Ive had a few scary moments with routers to convince myself that I should leave them well alone, I also have a bookmatched, London Plain top…..
@FatPete has agreed to make the body, I just need to mail the wood to him.
Neck is from my first ever partcaster and is left handed, supplied many years ago by Brandoni, currently fretless as I have removed them to fit Med Jumbos. I have a set of tuners
Body will have no comfort carves (maybe a belly carve as I had a few too many pies during lockdown) and the pickups direct mounted, no scratchplate, single push/push or pull push volume to select either neck SC or Bridge HB, no tone, although the control cavity will be big enough to accommodate one, if I decide I need one further on down the road..
Tele half bridge
First for me a stained burst finish, oiled….
Proposed body
So thats the background, all set up for some progress…..What could possibly go wrong…
More inane ramblings from the South Island soon
Comments
First post proper and already a change!
I thought I had a set of LH tuners to go on the Tele neck, that’ll be “no!” then
So I forgot I had this Strat neck, that I refretted and inlaid some time ago, so I installed the RH tuners that I thought were LH and Bobs your mothers brother…we are off! I’m pretty sure I have gold string tree, Ive found a jack plate and ordered a Gold Tele half bridge….
I may well inlay a Star into the top of the body, if I can find some bottle, that’ll tie it in to the neck.
Very tasteful!…..
Appreciate the offer though
The body, the wood is packed and ready to put in the mail today, I was rummaging in the loft and came across a Sapele (probably) body blank, that I forgot I had, so that and a bookmatched pair of London Plain for the top with be on their way to @FatPete to work his magic.
The neck
I saw a post on here about Mex Strat necks on offer from GuitarGuitar, at 150 quid it was a no brainer, so I got one for this project and another for “just in case”, (as you do) ituses the type of tuner with two pins on the rear. I really wanted the Fender Deluxe ones with pearl buttons, but everywhere is out of stock, or in the US, and mail costs were ridiculous, so I settled on Fender lockers, then a response to a wanted ad on here, highlighted a set with Pearl buttons had come up on eBay, in the UK, so they are also in the mail.
Id like to swap the buttons over, so that the Pearl buttons are on the lockers, when they get here Ill see if they will swap, if they are not compatible then the Pearl will go on this and the lockers on the spare neck..
So thanks to
@FatPete for making the body
@Mark123 for the heads up on the necks
@CasperCaster for the heads up on the Deluxe tuners
@Rabs for the wood for the top, I bet Ive had it a couple of years, at last its getting used…
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/89942/caspercaster#latest
http://www.rabswoodguitars.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/RabsWoodGuitars/
My Youtube page
Im just a bit excited!
http://www.rabswoodguitars.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/RabsWoodGuitars/
My Youtube page
I wonder what it is?
I could swear I got it from you…..
But then Im not sure what I did yesterday!
http://www.rabswoodguitars.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/RabsWoodGuitars/
My Youtube page
I did consider using them to make Mrs nb57 a necklace, but Ill have to rethink that….