Custom Hollow Stratocaster Body with Zebawood Top

[PumpinIron]

This is a custom made hollow Stratocaster body that weighs in at 3.4 lbs. The top is Zebrawood and the body is swamp ash. The body has a center block and hollow wings, and is extremely light and airy when you pick it up. The top is routed in traditional Stratocaster style, so that you access the controls through the top, just like you would on any other Stratocaster.

This thing is unfinished and will need to be sanded and painted of course. The small chunks of wood you see around the edges are used to hold the body in place while the CNC machine cuts it. They are easily sanded off during the sanding process.

There is a nice neck cut on the rear so that you can easily access the upper area of the neck.

This is an extremely nice body and will make for a truly unique Stratocaster!

If you're interested, I've got it listed on Reverb here:

https://reverb.com/item/10117007-custom-hollow-stratocaster-body-with-zebawood-top

 

[bagman67]

Preface:  I am writing this with no intent to slag your part.  The idea of a hollow bodied strat is pretty rad, and that body has the potential to inhabit a really interesting future.  But for a body requiring so much work, your asking price looks quite high.  Unless you're offering the service, the buyer will need to drill for a fixed bridge (best case scenario) or rout a trem cavity and drill for bridge studs, sand the body, possibly even out that belly cut, cut or bore a hole for a jack plate, and rout the body edge.  A chambered strat ready for finish in swamp ash with a zebra top is $272 from Warmoth, whose work we all know to be of predictably high quality.  If you're trying to get out from under a stillborn project, you will be able to move that body a little quicker if you either put more work into it to get it closer to finished goods, or lower your price, or a combination of the two.  Best of luck, in any event.

 

[Cagey]

I agree. I'm afraid that one is in the "labor of love" category. As it sits, I wouldn't even want it for free. It needs a great deal of work just to bring it up to a $75-$100 part, and there's no way I'd do that amount of work for that kind of money.

Of course, you never know who might look at that, fall in love and say money be damned. Ever read Stephen King's "Christine"?