Last week I had a rare trip into town to look for emergency grain filler (fail of course) and chanced across a nice sunburst strat. The guy in the shop said it wasn't for sale as needed major work, but I asked to try it anyway. Sounded amazing and played nicely enough (better than most brand new guitars do in the big box stores) but definitely does need the frets levelling and crowning, which I'm about to do this morning. I said I wanted it anyway and he sold it to me for a stupid-low price with no warranty.
It's a Classic 70s, quite a light (swamp?) ash body and I've spent the last week playing it and remembering that I have always really loved strats! I played one for a few years as my live guitar and this has reminded me why. I love the vivid burst and having owned a '78 strat for while I also have a soft spot for the bullet truss. Neck profile is nice too, very like the 78 with the so-called U shape.
I was surprised just quite how good it sounded so I popped the pickguard this morning when removing the neck.
Nice surprise there are some CS pickups in there - no wonder it sounded quite nice.
I think they may be Fat 50s - can anybody ID them for me?
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Was there also a baked potato in the there Jon?
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And I have about 200 of them in my cupboard. No other real reason, I'm not a huge believer in the tone fairies, in fact I rarely use the tone or volume controls at all. But to some it's a bonus and while pickguard is off and I'm snooping I may as well.
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I've just finished crowning and polishing and itching to get it set up!
I use the PIO caps for new builds just because I happened across a big bundle of them, but this guitar sounds great anyway.
I'm going to check the neck pickup with the multimeter to get an idea of what set might be in here (the ground wire from this was badly soldered to ground anyway and has come dislodged. Then all good.
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Neck 6.0
middle 6.2
Bridge 6.6
So I would have thought Fat 50s (which is what I was hoping for) but the bridge is a tad higher than the stock specs, would be in the low range for the Texas Specials though.
I'm guessing these figures have to vary - so what would people say, most likely the 50s?
Whatever they are I like them so that's good.
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