Hey all, new here and hopefully this thread isn't as dumb as the title sounds-
So I had a chance to play an acoustic lately with a 1 7/8 nut and 2 3/8 (maybe, wider than normal) bridge spacing and I immediately realized that superwide is what my fat fingers have been waiting for my whole life. So while I'm waiting on the SW neck for my mexi-strat, I'm starting to think about a super versatile studio guitar that isn't a *strat*.
But... I still love the form factor of a strat and love that pickguard blanks are cheap so I could experiment with pup setups without routing etc. Basically I just don't want the strat quack and for lack of a better way of saying it, a more generic electric guitar sound that could get into LP/other territory.
Pups will obviously be non-strat ones- likely starting out the tinkering with some sort of HHH setup with coil tap/split.
So the questions-
* Do you all think the 24.75 scale is necessary to get away from the stratty/fender sound? The fat fingers also prefer 25.5, but has anyone with big fingers used a 24.75 superwide?
* Mahogany neck with jumbo SS frets? Or other options to tame the strat quack?
* how important is body wood here?
* or, is this whole thing a bad idea and it's still going to have that stratty sound no matter what?
Thanks!
So I had a chance to play an acoustic lately with a 1 7/8 nut and 2 3/8 (maybe, wider than normal) bridge spacing and I immediately realized that superwide is what my fat fingers have been waiting for my whole life. So while I'm waiting on the SW neck for my mexi-strat, I'm starting to think about a super versatile studio guitar that isn't a *strat*.
But... I still love the form factor of a strat and love that pickguard blanks are cheap so I could experiment with pup setups without routing etc. Basically I just don't want the strat quack and for lack of a better way of saying it, a more generic electric guitar sound that could get into LP/other territory.
Pups will obviously be non-strat ones- likely starting out the tinkering with some sort of HHH setup with coil tap/split.
So the questions-
* Do you all think the 24.75 scale is necessary to get away from the stratty/fender sound? The fat fingers also prefer 25.5, but has anyone with big fingers used a 24.75 superwide?
* Mahogany neck with jumbo SS frets? Or other options to tame the strat quack?
* how important is body wood here?
* or, is this whole thing a bad idea and it's still going to have that stratty sound no matter what?
Thanks!