Hi All,
I had a maple American Professional Stratocaster neck sitting around from a build that never happened, and I've been getting into winding my own pickups lately so I decided to jump on the vintage spec Mary Kaye body that was in the showcase a few weeks ago to have a single coil testbed guitar.
Specs:
Vintage Spec Strat body
Swamp Ash
SSS route - 6 screw tremolo - 4lb 5oz
Maple American Pro Strat neck
Fender locking tuners
Fender anodized gold pickguard
American Professional style wiring w/ treble bleed
Vega Trem system - it's flat out awesome. Pricey, but it has all the tuning stability and function of a floyd rose but looks nice and sounds like a traditional strat bridge system. This is the 2nd one i've used and I think I'll use them going forward.
1/4" A5 rod magnet single coils in neck and bridge - 43awg enamel. 9.4k neck - 8.5k middle - 10.31k bridge with a steel baseplate attached.
currently a 15.8k bridge wound with 44awg, but I think it's a tad too dark and compressed compared to the 10.31k one, which sounds like the best parts of a P90 and tele bridge put together. I'll swap the 10.31k one back in next string change.
I really like Duncan Quarter pound pickups, but was annoyed they only come in black, and always wished they would fit in normal strat pickup covers. So I decided to wind my own that would, lol. I take standard strat pickup covers and stick them on the drill press to enlarge the holes just enough for the pole pieces to have wiggle room. I first tried a hand drill but it mangled the holes, and with the drill press the holes are super clean and i'm able to "kiss" the covers with the next size larger on a step bit to clean up the holes.
Anyway, on to the pics! My wife just got me an external flash for an early 1st Father's Day present so I spent the day trying to learn how to use it, so sorry if the pics are overdone haha.
I had a maple American Professional Stratocaster neck sitting around from a build that never happened, and I've been getting into winding my own pickups lately so I decided to jump on the vintage spec Mary Kaye body that was in the showcase a few weeks ago to have a single coil testbed guitar.
Specs:
Vintage Spec Strat body
Swamp Ash
SSS route - 6 screw tremolo - 4lb 5oz
Maple American Pro Strat neck
Fender locking tuners
Fender anodized gold pickguard
American Professional style wiring w/ treble bleed
Vega Trem system - it's flat out awesome. Pricey, but it has all the tuning stability and function of a floyd rose but looks nice and sounds like a traditional strat bridge system. This is the 2nd one i've used and I think I'll use them going forward.
1/4" A5 rod magnet single coils in neck and bridge - 43awg enamel. 9.4k neck - 8.5k middle - 10.31k bridge with a steel baseplate attached.
currently a 15.8k bridge wound with 44awg, but I think it's a tad too dark and compressed compared to the 10.31k one, which sounds like the best parts of a P90 and tele bridge put together. I'll swap the 10.31k one back in next string change.
I really like Duncan Quarter pound pickups, but was annoyed they only come in black, and always wished they would fit in normal strat pickup covers. So I decided to wind my own that would, lol. I take standard strat pickup covers and stick them on the drill press to enlarge the holes just enough for the pole pieces to have wiggle room. I first tried a hand drill but it mangled the holes, and with the drill press the holes are super clean and i'm able to "kiss" the covers with the next size larger on a step bit to clean up the holes.
Anyway, on to the pics! My wife just got me an external flash for an early 1st Father's Day present so I spent the day trying to learn how to use it, so sorry if the pics are overdone haha.
