I should have put this one up as soon as I finished it! Been busy with work to post a lot of stuff.
Neck: I've had it a couple of years now, '59 VM strat neck, 6130 frets, pao ferro board, MOP dots, home-cut bone nut, sperzels. A great neck. Finished by me in a couple light coats of satin poly.
Body: Tonar's "castoff" body! 3 lb 0 oz one piece swamp ash finished by the man himself, then rejected for absolutely NO reason I can fathom. It has a couple nicks from Sactown gigging which I certainly don't mind. Tonar's garbage is definitely another man's treasure.
Pickups: Troubled Treble's Roadhouse brand "65" underwound strat pickups. I LOVE these. They sound heavenly! A5 magnets, traditional coil structure, wound under 6k, very very articulate, classic, clear. They go so well with this whole package. They sound just as fantastic in series, actually, EXTREMELY usable sweet bucker sound. Full review w/sound clips coming soon.
Neckplate by Dangerous!
Bridge is just the Gotoh that warmoth sells, I couldn't bring myself to spring 4x the price for a callaham. Maybe I'll buy callaham saddles or something. Controls: 5 way does the normal thing, master vol master tone (RS guitarworks 500k pots), the second tone just operates as a pull-for-series switch. Does what I want, not too much thinking needed.
That means 4 of us had a hand in this lovely. I'll submit for GOM once I get those last pickguard screws in it, and the fingerboard edges rolled down at Rudy's.
Neck: I've had it a couple of years now, '59 VM strat neck, 6130 frets, pao ferro board, MOP dots, home-cut bone nut, sperzels. A great neck. Finished by me in a couple light coats of satin poly.
Body: Tonar's "castoff" body! 3 lb 0 oz one piece swamp ash finished by the man himself, then rejected for absolutely NO reason I can fathom. It has a couple nicks from Sactown gigging which I certainly don't mind. Tonar's garbage is definitely another man's treasure.
Pickups: Troubled Treble's Roadhouse brand "65" underwound strat pickups. I LOVE these. They sound heavenly! A5 magnets, traditional coil structure, wound under 6k, very very articulate, classic, clear. They go so well with this whole package. They sound just as fantastic in series, actually, EXTREMELY usable sweet bucker sound. Full review w/sound clips coming soon.
Neckplate by Dangerous!
Bridge is just the Gotoh that warmoth sells, I couldn't bring myself to spring 4x the price for a callaham. Maybe I'll buy callaham saddles or something. Controls: 5 way does the normal thing, master vol master tone (RS guitarworks 500k pots), the second tone just operates as a pull-for-series switch. Does what I want, not too much thinking needed.
That means 4 of us had a hand in this lovely. I'll submit for GOM once I get those last pickguard screws in it, and the fingerboard edges rolled down at Rudy's.
