7/8 Stratocaster "Mark II" Roasted Maple/ Alder

[NLD09]

I'm not really a multiple guitar kind of guy. I have a couple guitars that I tend to rely on, a main and a backup. Everything else usually ends up getting torn apart/rebuilt/destroyed in a mad scientist kind of way. So when I started having trouble with my main guitar due to a few years of constant modification in pursuit of who knows what, I decided to gut it, start over, and build the end all be all of guitars in my mind.

It's a near replica of the old one (with many of the same parts) only this time in miniature. I present "Mark II"

Specs:
Body- 7/8th size, Solid Alder, Swimming Pool Route, Floyd w/ Angled Pocket, Extra Light at 3lbs 1oz.

Neck- Right Hand Reverse Warhead, SRV carve, Roasted Maple, Sperzel Trim-Lok Tuners, 1 11/16 nut width, Stainless Steel Jumbo Frets.

Pickups- All Dimarzios. Pro Track (neck), Virtual Vintage 54 Pro (Middle), AT-1 (Bridge). Single volume knob, no wiring tricks.

And here's my first video with it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYzyxDgGA2s

 

[stratamania]

That's pink, with a gold Floyd, I like it.

Great video, haven't heard any Jeff Healey for sometime. Well done.

How do you find the 7/8 compared to a normal Strat size and scale length ?

 

[NLD09]

That's pink, with a gold Floyd, I like it.

Great video, haven't heard any Jeff Healey for sometime. Well done.

How do you find the 7/8 compared to a normal Strat size and scale length ?

Thanks!

It took almost no time at all to get used to the scale length. There were a few "stretchy" riffs that I would over-shoot for the first couple days, but now I'm used to it. I've started using a Les Paul copy as my back-up guitar though, just to avoid having to switch scale lengths during a show.

The size thing is a non-issue. Looking at it I can tell that it's smaller sitting in it's stand than the old one was, but it feels no different.

What's strange to me is that I transplanted everything over from the old guitar, yet somehow, despite the shorter scale length, this guitar sounds way brighter and significantly more "strat-y" than the actual strat the parts came from.

 

[stratamania]

Thanks for the feedback.

I perhaps may try a 7/8 one of these days, they look a lot of fun.

 

[DocNrock]

Good stuff, man.  I like it.  Then again, I'm a fan of anything with a Floyd.  :icon_thumright:

:rock-on:

 

[Surf n Music n Ski n Bike]

Ha nice Pink floyd  :laughing7: Sweet vid too. How you like that SRV neck. I just got one and I am really diggin it.

 

[NLD09]

Ha nice Pink floyd  :laughing7: Sweet vid too. How you like that SRV neck. I just got one and I am really diggin it.

I love it. I've always played the low string with my thumb and the thick asymmetrical carve works perfectly for me.

 

[MikeW]

That's really nice. The thing that makes it for me is the skull-flower at the south end. Really cool.