Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: Jonesy76 on December 12, 2007, 10:42:29 PM
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Well after her-who-must-be-obeyed said that the next guitar has to be something akin to the Blue Matteo PRS CU24 I used to have...........
Forgive me Father for I have sinned :twisted:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f301/jonesy76/Strat1.jpg)
That should sort out the Blue Matteo and my craving for a Strat in one easy go!
I'm gonna go for an all maple neck with the big CBS style headstock, and all gold hardware including gold locking Grovers for the headstock. The Scratchplate I reckon will be look good being a white pearl one with white singlecoils on board. Don't know if I can stretch to something from Tims wonderful stable yet, but any suggestions if I did? Gotta be potent enough to keep up with my mainly vintage equipped Les Pauls
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Gorgeous!
But I think you'd ruin it with a Strat headstock - I personally hate them.
I'd go for one of the more modern looking 3-a-sides.
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That's a nice quilted top and a nice finish!!!
I only don't like CBS headstocks...
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http://www.bigsbyguitars.com/products_guitars.html
put one of those headstocks on. teehee
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http://www.bigsbyguitars.com/products_guitars.html
put one of those headstocks on. teehee
:D :roll:
That makes the CBS Fender style ones look small! My reason for going with a proper Fender headstock is just to keep it in keeping with the original, as everything I have has 3-a-side tuners. I personally like the big oversized CBS era Fender Headstocks, so for me it'll be perfect.
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That does look very tasty, really like the colour as well... and yeah, nice big Fender style headstock would be gorgeous. Are you going with a Warmoth neck to partner it? My birds eye maple one is spot on for me.
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NICE!!!
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I already have a Mighty Mite neck to partner it to start with, but possibly in the new year sometime I might well partake of a figured maple neck from Warmoth themselves to partner it with.
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Allthough i LOVE the 70's CBS headstock, i wont put it on this body, a nitro finished birdseye maple neck with standard headstock would definately finish this wonderfull body. I would consider nickel hardware by the way, it allways seemed to bring out the warm tones on my guitar better as opposed to gold which distracts from the wood IMO. Or maybe black hardware or ehhh even aged gold hardware.... owell hope you get the idea.
The only advice i can give you on assembling the guitar is to make a plan up front so you wont rush it and definately let the neck be attached by a luthier, there are so many dull/lifeless sounding strats around and i think alot is due to poor placement of the neck to the body. Its actually alot more difficult to do correctly then just predrilling a couple of holes and screw the neck on it, the contact the neck makes with the body has to be optimal and that does take alot of experience to get just right.
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Attaching the neck won't be an issue.........
My old man is a Master Carpenter and Joiner, so lining everything up prior to drilling the neck will be simple with all the carpentry jigs he has in his workshop.
As for the gold hardware........sorry :oops: I like gold, and her indoors likes gold so gold it'll be. I just think it'll look good with the plain maple neck and is a bit different to all the other normal Fender Strats out there.
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Plain maple? Oh god.... please, Birdseye! :D
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Trilogy in the bridge, RW/RP Mother's Milk in the middle and Slow Hand in the neck?
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I remember seeing you post recommendations for Duncans last night Ed... Nothing wrong with that, just odd they disappeared.
I'm a convert to Slowhands, Mother's Milks are very 'woody', I prefer my pickups to be warmer, something the SH's have in spades. And they are punchy, powerful mofos. Bridge Trilogy is meant to be almost p90 like, according to Tim.
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I remember seeing you post recommendations for Duncans last night Ed... Nothing wrong with that, just odd they disappeared.
I'm a convert to Slowhands, Mother's Milks are very 'woody', I prefer my pickups to be warmer, something the SH's have in spades. And they are punchy, powerful mofos. Bridge Trilogy is meant to be almost p90 like, according to Tim.
I took advise and removed them. I misread the first post and thought the request was for other pickups because he couldn't afford Bare Knuckle's at the moment.
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So I wasn't seeing things! Just worried incase I'm spending too long on the forum I'm actually dreaming about imaginary posts...
As for the guitar in question, it's not my cup of tea... To me the whole point of Fenders is they are bits of wood that are bolted together to make noise, not crafted instruments of beauty... Hence all my guitar's are a solid colour with shiney metal bridges/knobs :P
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Plain maple? Oh god.... please, Birdseye! :D
Birds eye or flame/quilt neck is a definate addition to this........but not quite yet, as quite simply I'm not going to have the cash for a killer neck and all the components at the mo. I already have the neck, so it would be silly not to use it.
It was either buy the body and a killer neck and have it unplayable for a few months; or use the neck I have and buy components and have a working guitar by Christmas.
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hummm I know this problem... more than I wished :(
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Ordered all my components yesterday.......
It's amazing how many extra little bits you need for a Strat over say a Les Paul.
Scratchplate screws, switch screws, string trees, etc etc!
Got it all now though I think
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Thats pretty much why i dont want to assemble a strat but rather did a Tele. Im very interested to see how all turns out, would you be able to make some snapshots along the way?
Youll definately get something unique, probably very worthwile to delay ordering a new neck, this way you can decide which shape/radius while playing which is always the best thing IMO.
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Cheers Henk :D
I'll do another one of my 'how to' things if you want like I did with my guide on how to re-wire a 335?
The first thing to do will be to apply the Fender Stratocaster logos to the headstock, and get some laquer over them before the body turns up at the end of next week. The decals will hopefully turn up tomorrow, so I should have a week or so to get a good few coats of laquer on the headstock before re-polishing it.
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Hey Jonesy,
I'll be building a Warmoth strat too quite soon, depending on when I can find a suitable neck from their showcase.
I reckon a heavy birdseye neck on that body you've snagged would be fantastic.
Good luck! :D
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Cheers Henk :D
I'll do another one of my 'how to' things if you want like I did with my guide on how to re-wire a 335?
That would be great! I still have to rewire my '70s Washburn HB35 MIJ, but i know it will be a breeze with that guide of yours.. 8)