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    first time-strat style

    I've decided to make the neck now, I'm goiong to buy a pre slotted, 10-16" radius ebony fingerboard off of stewmac. My dad agreed to help me with the parts that I wern't too sure about like the truss rod and floyd rose routing. So the only thing I'm getting from warmoth is a custom pickguard and...
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    Need Help/Suggestions for First Guitar Project

    I always thought that basswood was used for cheap guitars because it''s a cheap soft wood, if I'm right I wouldn't want to use that on a custom guitar. Also have you played the evolution pickups I had one in the neck of my jackson dinky before I sold it and I thought it was way too bassy and...
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    1st build Strat. Hollow vs solid, Hardtail vs trem? Advice please.

    I made a mahogany strat, made the body myself out of a 1 piece mahogany body. Mahogany looks better clear finished but if your looking to get a traditional strat sound out of it mahogany is not the right kind of wood it will make it sound warmer and more like a les paul and it also weighs a ton...
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    first time-strat style

    No it's a strat style headstock it just came out weird on the thing, I've been thinking bout finishing the neck in black but I havent decided yet I'm starting to like the chrome on blank maple.
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    first time-strat style

    Thanks for the replies, I measured my dad's American strat and it's 1 11/16, I love that strat  and this is going to have all of my favorite features the things I'm changing witch this ebony fingerboard, thinner neck, floyd rose, and humbuckers hopefully it will play as good. I've made a strat...
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    first time-strat style

    I am planning on making a strat style warmoth guitar with floyd rose, h-h-h pickups, the middle humbucker will be single coil sized, 3 on-or-coil tap toggle switches for each pickup, 1 vol, 1 tone, buckethead style killswitch, recessed floyd rose rout, alder body, original floyd rose, gotoh...
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