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Anybody own a strat? 🤪
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Brett
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I have a few that I'm quite fond of...
Pictured left is a Fender American Vintage Reissue '59 Stratocaster with a slab rosewood board. No mods other than changing the 3-way selector to a 5-way and putting Highwood Saddles on. I picked this one up after I fell in love with the AVRI '59 series at a shop in Houston. It's a great sounding guitar and is so comfortable to play.
Pictured right is a Fender 60th Anniversary Commemorative American Vintage 1954 Stratocaster. 100% stock. It gets played but very sparingly (it's more of a collector piece) but is one of the best sounding and playing Strats I've ever put my hands on. There's something "magical" about the pickups Fender installed in these.
I've got another that has a bit of a story:
This guy is my favorite of the bunch and is a bit of a Frankenstein.
The body started its life as an American Vintage '63 Stratocaster during Fender's Fullerton transition period (1987). Interestingly, this body's QC was signed off on by John Cruz (the CS builder who recreated Stevie's Number One and John Mayer's Black One Stratocasters). From what I gather, this was before Fender officially launched the "Custom Shop" and these guitars were more or less considered Fender's high-end models. I found the body on eBay a while back and grabbed it for many reasons but I wanted a black body with a nitro finish and here's something really cool, the body and myself were "born" only a few days apart (according to the neck pocket's date stamp).
The neck was custom ordered through BGP/Sound Guitar Works out of Washington. The wood species are roasted quarter-sawn maple with an Amazon Rosewood fretboard. The neck profile is their '63 carve and the frets are Jescar EVO gold in a profile close to Dunlop's 6105. The neck has already been re-fretted once and although BGP/SGW won't admit it, their initial fret job left a bit to be desired. I think the Amazon Rosewood is much harder than Indian rosewood and, combined with this fret wire, it caused them to lift prematurely. Fortunately, BGP/SGW did the re-fret at no cost and it's much better now than it was. I cut and installed an unbleached bone nut and Hipshot locking staggered gold tuners with pearl buttons. The neck is finished in Tru-Oil and waxed with a thin coat of carnauba. It's a dream to play, truly.
The star of the show for the electronics are the pickups. It's loaded with custom-ordered Mark Foley '59 Reserve V.1 pickups with a stagger optimized for the 10" fretboard radius. These pickups are the same pickups that Matt Schofield used to rock in his SVL Strat. They sound incredible. The controls are standard affair, 5-way selector with CTS controls and a PIO tone cap (yeah, it probably makes no difference vs a regular cap).
Honorable mention is another Franky but it needs a little work and it's apart right now. This ugly duckling won't make a cameo today, but it's a Gilmour-inspired Candy Apple Red Strat with a maple boat neck from Allparts and a loaded Gilmour EMG pickguard. The Mighty Mite body weighs a shitload and the guitar is apart right now because the fretboard overhang is too thick for the EMG pickguard and it has to be shaved down in order to seat the neck fully.
If you made it this far, thanks for reading and sorry if I got a little wordy. I'm really enjoying seeing everyone else's Strats! Please keep them coming!
Pictured left is a Fender American Vintage Reissue '59 Stratocaster with a slab rosewood board. No mods other than changing the 3-way selector to a 5-way and putting Highwood Saddles on. I picked this one up after I fell in love with the AVRI '59 series at a shop in Houston. It's a great sounding guitar and is so comfortable to play.
Pictured right is a Fender 60th Anniversary Commemorative American Vintage 1954 Stratocaster. 100% stock. It gets played but very sparingly (it's more of a collector piece) but is one of the best sounding and playing Strats I've ever put my hands on. There's something "magical" about the pickups Fender installed in these.
I've got another that has a bit of a story:
This guy is my favorite of the bunch and is a bit of a Frankenstein.
The body started its life as an American Vintage '63 Stratocaster during Fender's Fullerton transition period (1987). Interestingly, this body's QC was signed off on by John Cruz (the CS builder who recreated Stevie's Number One and John Mayer's Black One Stratocasters). From what I gather, this was before Fender officially launched the "Custom Shop" and these guitars were more or less considered Fender's high-end models. I found the body on eBay a while back and grabbed it for many reasons but I wanted a black body with a nitro finish and here's something really cool, the body and myself were "born" only a few days apart (according to the neck pocket's date stamp).
The neck was custom ordered through BGP/Sound Guitar Works out of Washington. The wood species are roasted quarter-sawn maple with an Amazon Rosewood fretboard. The neck profile is their '63 carve and the frets are Jescar EVO gold in a profile close to Dunlop's 6105. The neck has already been re-fretted once and although BGP/SGW won't admit it, their initial fret job left a bit to be desired. I think the Amazon Rosewood is much harder than Indian rosewood and, combined with this fret wire, it caused them to lift prematurely. Fortunately, BGP/SGW did the re-fret at no cost and it's much better now than it was. I cut and installed an unbleached bone nut and Hipshot locking staggered gold tuners with pearl buttons. The neck is finished in Tru-Oil and waxed with a thin coat of carnauba. It's a dream to play, truly.
The star of the show for the electronics are the pickups. It's loaded with custom-ordered Mark Foley '59 Reserve V.1 pickups with a stagger optimized for the 10" fretboard radius. These pickups are the same pickups that Matt Schofield used to rock in his SVL Strat. They sound incredible. The controls are standard affair, 5-way selector with CTS controls and a PIO tone cap (yeah, it probably makes no difference vs a regular cap).
Honorable mention is another Franky but it needs a little work and it's apart right now. This ugly duckling won't make a cameo today, but it's a Gilmour-inspired Candy Apple Red Strat with a maple boat neck from Allparts and a loaded Gilmour EMG pickguard. The Mighty Mite body weighs a shitload and the guitar is apart right now because the fretboard overhang is too thick for the EMG pickguard and it has to be shaved down in order to seat the neck fully.
If you made it this far, thanks for reading and sorry if I got a little wordy. I'm really enjoying seeing everyone else's Strats! Please keep them coming!
spi
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The neck is an AO60, the body is an EJ (Tropical Turquoise), bridge is Callaham, and the pickups are Antiquity Surfers. I love it.
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got the files along with a warlock and something Giger-esque.I know I'm not the only 3D printing enthusiast here, anyone else 3D print a strat
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Nothing special beyond paying attention you don't have to pay out the nose, redefining parts caster. $100 chinese kit off amazaon(1st kit ever before found Solo..) $100 set of Fender Tex-Mex p-ups, set of .. was either kutsons or gotoh tuners, voila player grade strat for 1/3 the price.
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Bricksnbeatles
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4 1/4 I suppose. Three, and a 3/4 scale, plus a body that I need to get a neck for.
I’ll try to get pics later on, but they are:
-2012(?) American FSR. SSS, CBS-style maple board neck, open grain satin honey burst (alder body) that’s worn to a silky gloss around the contours. My #1 for years, but it’s been decommissioned for the past two years because I started some mods, and forgot to ever finish them. Need a new pickguard now because I lost it
-Frankenstrat. First guitar I ever built. Spent an absurd amount of money over the course of my middle school years meticulously amassing parts for it, but the paint job is what took the longest time since I was meticulous and would redo the tape a few dozen times before committing to paint. Wiring this up is what actually got me into soldering. It’s not quite as accurate as I’d have believed back then, but I’m still super proud of it. Main thing is I did more coats than I needed since high res pics were hard to come by at the time, and it was widely believed that the coats were thick and noticeably raised between coats. Now that I saw the real deal at the Met in 2019 and have a ton of clear pics, I think I could do another as a “Grail” build (what the EVH community calls the hyper-accurate Frank builds) but I think I’ve moved past having interest in doing that. Maybe someday though, for the nostalgia.
-Sonic Blue HH partscaster. Hardtail alder Warmoth body. Mighty Mite neck with a rosewood board. Dimarzio SD in the bridge, and Dimarzio Humbucker from Hell in the neck. Built it when I was around 15 and really into Weezer, so of course I went with a double cream neck pickup to cop Rivers’ strat look, but Martin Barre and Holdsworth were both influences for the HH Strat too.
-Squier mini Strat (v1 I think). Won it in a goodwill auction for $30. Won an auction really cheap for some nice pickups for it. Got a vintage style mint green pickguard made for it, and I plan on at some point refinishing it in sonic blue and setting it up with a super light flatwound set tuned to A as I guess sorta an Alto/Mezzo-Soprano guitar (I call my mini teardrop tuned up to C a soprano, but I’m gonna try for E a full octave up with a set of 7s). I’m debating doing it as a Mini George Harrison Rocky, but I think the Sonic blue is a nice enough nod to it.
-a nice walnut body I got from a notable builder (can’t remember which at the moment) for cheap as a “b stock” since it has a knot on the face of it. Don’t know what I’ll do just yet, but I have ideas.
I’ll edit to add the pics below the descriptions when I get a chance.
I’ll try to get pics later on, but they are:
-2012(?) American FSR. SSS, CBS-style maple board neck, open grain satin honey burst (alder body) that’s worn to a silky gloss around the contours. My #1 for years, but it’s been decommissioned for the past two years because I started some mods, and forgot to ever finish them. Need a new pickguard now because I lost it
-Frankenstrat. First guitar I ever built. Spent an absurd amount of money over the course of my middle school years meticulously amassing parts for it, but the paint job is what took the longest time since I was meticulous and would redo the tape a few dozen times before committing to paint. Wiring this up is what actually got me into soldering. It’s not quite as accurate as I’d have believed back then, but I’m still super proud of it. Main thing is I did more coats than I needed since high res pics were hard to come by at the time, and it was widely believed that the coats were thick and noticeably raised between coats. Now that I saw the real deal at the Met in 2019 and have a ton of clear pics, I think I could do another as a “Grail” build (what the EVH community calls the hyper-accurate Frank builds) but I think I’ve moved past having interest in doing that. Maybe someday though, for the nostalgia.
-Sonic Blue HH partscaster. Hardtail alder Warmoth body. Mighty Mite neck with a rosewood board. Dimarzio SD in the bridge, and Dimarzio Humbucker from Hell in the neck. Built it when I was around 15 and really into Weezer, so of course I went with a double cream neck pickup to cop Rivers’ strat look, but Martin Barre and Holdsworth were both influences for the HH Strat too.
-Squier mini Strat (v1 I think). Won it in a goodwill auction for $30. Won an auction really cheap for some nice pickups for it. Got a vintage style mint green pickguard made for it, and I plan on at some point refinishing it in sonic blue and setting it up with a super light flatwound set tuned to A as I guess sorta an Alto/Mezzo-Soprano guitar (I call my mini teardrop tuned up to C a soprano, but I’m gonna try for E a full octave up with a set of 7s). I’m debating doing it as a Mini George Harrison Rocky, but I think the Sonic blue is a nice enough nod to it.
-a nice walnut body I got from a notable builder (can’t remember which at the moment) for cheap as a “b stock” since it has a knot on the face of it. Don’t know what I’ll do just yet, but I have ideas.
I’ll edit to add the pics below the descriptions when I get a chance.
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PapaBear
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ITG6
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I have a few, definitely not as many as some of you(who will be referenced when my wife says I have too many).
This is my current favorite - MJT body, random ebay neck, vegatrem, RH Factor pickups.
Also my Eric Johnson (that someone abused before I got it) or my Road Worn Player -
This is my current favorite - MJT body, random ebay neck, vegatrem, RH Factor pickups.
Also my Eric Johnson (that someone abused before I got it) or my Road Worn Player -
andare
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And those are just the Strats...
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Papi Fuego
Synchrony Pedalworks
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Took my girls to Taylor Swift, so I figured that I needed a reward. Got this one in Nashville and love it. This picture was at the store. I could only wish for those amps!
Coda
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That’s a cutie pie! Turns out I like sunburst black guard AND LPB…
jimilee
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Winner!!!!Oh man. I cant get them all in 1 photo!
there's about 20 more I don't have pics of.
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Locrian99
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I’m a big fan of the tide pool with a maple neck. But I just can’t really justify buying another guitar.LPB is hot AFit slays on any fender
