Booked on with Crimson to build a strat (hard tail but as close to a superstrat as I can get) in May. My first from scratch and I don’t have anything for it yet.
I’m researching hardware…
Before I start buying new stuff does anyone have
- any recommendations for any of the basics (tuners bridge etc). Crimson have Gotoh and Schaller available so was going to go with one of them.
And any stuff for sale?
- any bridge and neck humbucker pickups.
I’m liking an EVH Frankenstein bridge, it’s what I know from my actual EVHFrankie, and I think Seymour Duncan make them. Alnico2.
I’m stuck for what to put at the neck. And no idea how to choose.
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For pickups - you won't go far wrong with Oil City ...
Because ash can be lighter or do you mean source a lighter wood like Swamp Ash? which is apparently very impossible to get.
These days the good swamp ash is comparable in weight to those other woods. Still light for ash, but rarely truly lightweight for a guitar
Expect anything sold as Ash, English or not, to make a very heavy guitar. Expect anything sold as Swamp Ash to be a more reasonable weight, but not always lightweight.
remember the swamp/punk ash was rejected for all other wood working situations where you would chose Ash.
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This is just some of the stock that David has, inside there are lots of Swamp Ash, one piece and multi piece pre-joined bodies blanks.
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