Creamy strat...

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Not so much a build, more of an assembly. Had the neck kicking around for ages and it was nice and chunky. An old SX strat neck but felt nice because of the chunk - those bloody headstocks though :(

Picked up a squire body from tardme awhile back for 30 bucks, finally got around to marrying them together. Somebody faux-jo'd the body but its actually not too bad.

The neck, I reshaped the headstock to be strat-ish but smaller, I think it looks great :) Refretted with jumbo's, rolled, stripped and finished with 3 layers of tru-oil, all it needed. Blended the back of the neck a little. I got this neck solely for the purpose of practicing refrets, this was the fifth refret I've done and the second on that neck! So it has dings but it feels bloody lovely.

Pickups, middle and neck are rio grande vintage tallboys, the bridge was made by Adrian (Ash) - they were all looking for a home.

Electrics are from our very own TouneLounge master, one of his pro upgrade kits, so cloth wiring, blend pot, etc....

The trem is one of my favourite wilkinson waves I've had hanging around for ages, it really does chirp and comes back to pitch perfectly :)

So much of the stuff was hanging around anyway so I feel like I have a free guitar out of the parts box. So chuffed with the neck, wish I'd taken more care of it when fretting now - I literally just used it for fretting practice, but its currently my favourite profile!
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if you haven't seen that headstock shape, it looked originally like this...
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Lovely job, jeepers those saddles look like they are raised quite a bit! Headstock looks 100% better than it did originally.

Nice work.

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Wow! Amazing work! I dig it!

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Mini Forklift Ⓥ wrote:Lovely job, jeepers those saddles look like they are raised quite a bit! Headstock looks 100% better than it did originally.

Nice work.
Yeah its set for up and down. Works great with the two post bridge, I can get a whole tone up.
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Mini Forklift Ⓥ wrote:Lovely job, jeepers those saddles look like they are raised quite a bit! Headstock looks 100% better than it did originally.

Nice work.
Oh you mean the saddle height themselves? different necks, different pockets. Action on this is actually medium-low, but to get that, the saddles are high :) Unless a neck/body are matched from the outset, there is always that approx 4mm adjustment on the saddles :) or an old business card in the neck pocket.
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Fantastic!!!
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love it
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willow13 wrote:love it
Turned out like a proper strat, I'll bring it to the tronfest... I may even be at this one ;)
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oh is that what that is? I often see it lying around the house and have no idea as to its use....
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.

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