My Quilted Purple Sunburst Tribute

[stratamania]

My Quilted Purple Strat is complete. It has been for a while but did not get around to posting in here. I would like to get some better photos done at some point also.























Dedicated to Jon Lord...above and beyond.




Specifications

Body

Model: Chambered Stratocaster®
Orientation: Right handed
F-Holes: None
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Quilt Maple on Swamp Ash
Rout: Top Rout
Pickup Rout: Strat®, Strat®, Strat®
Controls: None
Bridge: Custom route for Gotoh 510 Tremelo
Stud Install: No Stud Install
Jack Rout: Strat® Top Jack Rout
Neck Pocket: Strat® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Countours: / Tummy Cut / Forearm Contour
Battery Box: No Battery Box Rout
Binding: Natural Masked Binding
Top Finish: Purple to Clear Burst
Back Finish: Purple to Clear Burst


Neck

Style: Stratocaster®
Construction: Warmoth Pro
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Birdseye Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Ebony
Nut Width: 1-5/8"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: SS6100 (Stainless)
Tuner Ream: Schaller (25/64" 11/32")
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Scale: 25-1/2"
Fret #: 22
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Pre-Cut Installed String Nut: Earvana GraphTech Black TUSQ XL
Inlays: Mother Of Pearl Dots
Side Dots: White Side Dots
Finish: No Finish from Warmoth, but completed with Satin Nitro for the headstock and Birchwood Casey Tru Oil for the neck by myself.

Pickups

Kinman Woodstock Plus set with K9 Harness.

Tremelo, Gotoh 510TS-FE1 (Steel block) trem in chrome

Tuners, Hipshot Locking tuners.

Strap Buttons, Dunlop Dual Design Straploks.

Custom Neckplate, FSR Custom Neckplate made based on a design I sent in.


The neckplate design was based on something I found online where someone had taken the Deep Purple, album cover of Deep Purple in Rock, with the band in Mount Rushmore guise and the logo from The Battle Rages On, and it just looked somehow right to me for this guitar. The two albums were the first and last album recorded by the MKII line up of Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice and Blackmore. I had started thinking about dragons for the logo and purple dragons ended up with me finding this image. It somehow seemed right as the Purple to Clear burst was something I really liked on the Musicman Steve Morse Y2D, which is where I got the tru oil for the neck idea and the finish I was looking for initially.


Link to the fairly detailed build thread of this guitar.

Quilted Purple Strat Build

The out of the box thread with a number of nice pics can be found here. https://unofficialwarmoth.com/threads/purple-quilt-day.22444/ The very first build type shot after taking things out of the box where I did a quick test of the fit of the Hipshot locking tuners that are going on this...

unofficialwarmoth.com

Thanks for looking.

 

[JCizzle]

Very nice! A little old school meets Steve Morse Purple!

 

[Surf n Music]

I like it! Turned out so good!!

 

[stratamania]

Thanks guys  ccasion14:

 

[croquet hoop]

I really like this one, especially since I have a similar body here (flame maple, not quilt, and still waiting for a neck). Your heavily documented build thread was a joy to read, too.