Natural finish strats

bazxkr · April 2016

EdGrip said:

I see someone ordered a plectrum from Thomann

Plural ! Two LOL

Jetfire · April 2016

@Drbob yes, but bazxkr has a very sexy bitsa. ..holy crap!!

DrBob · April 2016

Jetfire;1043039" said:
@Drbob yes, but bazxkr has a very sexy bitsa. ..holy crap!!

Totally agree mate but having played one of those ESPs that thin 'U' profile is pretty unique, if that's the key thing about those guitars that you like you might have a bit of a job finding something similar

DrBob · April 2016

Did your brother buy your birthday pressie yet ?
If not maybe a natty finish Strat body or cash towards to get the project rolling ?

HAL9000 · April 2016

Not a real Strat, but I believe Yamaha sell a natural finish Pacifica. Modern frets and neck. Only obvious fly in the ointment is that the bridge pickup is a splittable HB rather than a single coil. Oh, and some folks don't get on with the narrow necks. Apart from that it's all hunky.

english_bob · April 2016

HAL9000 said:

Not a real Strat, but I believe Yamaha sell a natural finish Pacifica. Modern frets and neck. Only obvious fly in the ointment is that the bridge pickup is a splittable HB rather than a single coil. Oh, and some folks don't get on with the narrow necks. Apart from that it's all hunky.

They certainly did for a long time. It was pretty much the selling point of the guitar when it came out- nobody else made a sub-£200 guitar out of solid wood back in the mid-90s, everything was plywood. All their advertising was about how nobody else made a natural finish guitar...

The old 112J model (discontinued, but still readily available new and plentiful on the used market) has all three pickups mounted to the scratchplate, so you could fairly easily get a new one made up for a bridge SC. The new 112V model has the bridge humbucker mounted to the body so no dice there.

Jetfire · April 2016

Im ok with narrow necks because Im an Ibanez player deep down. Something with girth on it (fnar) would be good but Im not a huge single coil player so I may bastard one of the early Pacificas for something like this.. Ive always fancied one tbh so I may just give it a whirl

HAL9000 · April 2016

Just looked on Yamaha's website. The Pacifica 112v comes in natural. Also there's the Pacifica VMX which seems to be the same but has a maple fingerboard.

Like I said though, the bridge pickup is a humbucker, but is splittable (via a push/pull function on the tone control) to give a single coil sound.

http://data.yamaha.jp/sdb/product/image/main/raw/p/pacifica112v_yellow_natural_satin/57DD7FC7EB7B42EB819D16857A98F875_12073.jpg

bazxkr · April 2016

Jetfire said:

@Drbob yes, but bazxkr has a very sexy bitsa. ..holy crap!!

THks....crap picture though...here is a better one showing the grain, before the pickguard/pup change. If you pick the right body/neck you will get a real looker

You'd think it a different guitar LOL

Jetfire · April 2016

What body is it? Warmoth?

bazxkr · April 2016

Jetfire said:

What body is it? Warmoth?

My mind said yes but just checked back & It is actually a Mighty Mite 2 pc swamp ash body lightly varnished

Neck is a Might Mite compound radius. Bridge Wilkinson VS50

I don't think you can beat the look of natural wood

Pretty certain this is the body http://www.byoguitar.com/Guitars/MightyMite-Licensed-Fender-Strat--Guitar-Body-in-Ash__MM2700A.aspx

Just add varnish job done haha

NPP · April 2016

mine is in my signature. It was a sunburst for the first 30-odd years of its 'life' but it feels like that only after taking the finish off and slightly reshaping the contours it's really finished and as it should have been

57Deluxe · April 2016

EdGrip said:

Exactly - I thought all the 70s reissue strats were natural finish by law?

yep - was a condition of getting mine...

http://i59.tinypic.com/fwffp.jpg

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