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http://www.fendercustomshop.com/features/last-waltz/
Not a particular fan of the music or documentary but the guitar has piqued my interest. Looking for feedback on something similar. Not interested in replicating the finish which is cool but prohibitive for me. I'm mostly interested in the pickup arrangement.
I'm pretty sure two angled Strat pickups adjacent to one another will not fit in any typical humbucker rout, so a bridge pickup rout will need to be opened up or go with a swimming pool rout.
I've never seen anyone offer a pickguard cut for this configuration so I may have to "roll my own."
The Fender Custom Shop website states that Robertson "...replaced it with a left-handed pickup and relocated it adjacent to the bridge pickup." I'm not sure how to interpret this. Assuming that it still had the original '54 pickups I don't know if the middle pickups were RW/RP then. Lefty Strats didn't receive different pickups (except for maybe pole height differences). By left handed pickup, do you think they're talking to pole height differences on a lefty strung guitar or a RW and/or RP pickup?
Thanks.
Not a particular fan of the music or documentary but the guitar has piqued my interest. Looking for feedback on something similar. Not interested in replicating the finish which is cool but prohibitive for me. I'm mostly interested in the pickup arrangement.
I'm pretty sure two angled Strat pickups adjacent to one another will not fit in any typical humbucker rout, so a bridge pickup rout will need to be opened up or go with a swimming pool rout.
I've never seen anyone offer a pickguard cut for this configuration so I may have to "roll my own."
The Fender Custom Shop website states that Robertson "...replaced it with a left-handed pickup and relocated it adjacent to the bridge pickup." I'm not sure how to interpret this. Assuming that it still had the original '54 pickups I don't know if the middle pickups were RW/RP then. Lefty Strats didn't receive different pickups (except for maybe pole height differences). By left handed pickup, do you think they're talking to pole height differences on a lefty strung guitar or a RW and/or RP pickup?
Thanks.