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Black Strat with a figured twist

Guitarsan

Guitarsan

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This one will take a while, I have to finish my first build, a spalted Tele first. But, since I've made final decisions on this and have now acquired the pickguard and neck (as you can see, the important parts) I'm putting up this Photoshop proto photo. The pickguard is kinda funny looking, as this is the Ebay photo and I had to rotate and stretch to make it look halfway right. At some point I'll take a proper photo.

Watcha think?

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Wow!  I normally despise spalted maple anything, but that pickguard looks great on the all black strat body!  Looking forward to seeing how it turns out.
 
It looks very good.

Although as much as I like Birdseye maple I could not help thinking if the neck had a spalt maple veneer on the headstock it may give a little more continuity. But in any event it looks very good as is.
 
stratamania said:
It looks very good.

Although as much as I like Birdseye maple I could not help thinking if the neck had a spalt maple veneer on the headstock it may give a little more continuity. But in any event it looks very good as is.
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Thanks! I had that thought certainly. But unless I could match the flaming and color/tint of the pickguard (which I couldn't unless I went completely custom outside of Warmoth, if then), I think it would detract too much.

So I went for matching the tint as closely as possible with a standard Warmoth neck. If you look at the center part of the pickguard and then the headstock it's a very close match. I wasn't looking for birdseye in particular, could have also done flame, but color-wise and contrast-wise (birdseye vs. flame/spalt) it's a good complementary look. And you should see the back of the neck.  :icon_thumright:
 
stratamania said:
@Guitarsan, that all makes sense.

I'd love to see the back of the neck. Post some pics ;-)
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The stock photo will have to do for now, Warmoth is drilling the tuner holes hopefully as we speak....

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Very nice, you can't beat a bid of Birdseye I think. It will look even better when you have it and can turn it in the light.
 
stratamania said:
Although as much as I like Birdseye maple I could not help thinking if the neck had a spalt maple veneer on the headstock it may give a little more continuity. But in any event it looks very good as is.
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I had this same feeling myself but understand your reasoning.
 
Well, months have gone by and next month I'm about to turn my sights and attention to this spaltedguard Strat.

All I have at this point are the pickguard and neck. But, I'm making steady progress on the electronics and one or two custom/unique twists on how I handle extra switching options and in the combination of pups used. I'm a bit frightened about that as it will require some surgery on this one of a kind pickguard. I think I'm actually going to be able to buy the electronics/pups pre-made, which would be nice.

I've made a decision on the body and have my eye on an actual Fender body rather than going Warmoth. Weight and low dampening play a role in that decision. Watch this space in mid to late June!
 
Well, I decided I just didn't like that neck with the pickguard, so sold it and have another one coming.

Have been wanting to try roasted maple and found one I think color-wise blends in real well. For now, here's a rough mock-up of the back. (I do mean rough, the plate photo was taken at an angle). Gonna take me a while to build this, but now have the body I want, the neck I want and next is getting the hardware and electrics here.

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Add another vote for the spalt laminate on the headstock. I was thinking that as I read down through the posts.
 
Jeez, if you ''don't have time'' for it right now, why not tuck it away and have it in reserve at a later date? Seems as though you've put alot of thought into this piece-it'd be a shame to give it up, no?
 
Man... even counting my baritone as two separate guitars... they've still been over a year each.  Counted as one project it's been like oh my goodness... 5-6 years? 
 
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