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My Space-caster

grimm26

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Yeah, it's a dumb name but the silvery-ness of it seems to make it right :).  It's a Fender Robert Cray body in Inca Silver with a Warmoth maple/maple angled strat neck, and Lace Alumitone pickups.  There's grover mini locking tuners, a Megaswicth E 5-way (middle position gives me neck+bridge), graphtech string saver saddles.  The Cray body is made for a vintage spaced hardtail (2 3/16"), but I wanted import spacing (2 1/16") cuz the E's aren't so close to the fretboard edges and I already had the saddles from pulling them off of another guitar that got GHOST saddles. I had to fill and redrill two of the mounting holes for the bridge plate that I got that had the import spacing. also had to drill out some of the string holes in the body to accomdate the bridge plate spacing. I am also only using a single volume and a single tone control instead of two tones or tone + TBX. Having an extra tone control is not a big deal to me and I hate having the volume knob as close to the bridge as it normally is on a strat. I covered the hole for it with one of my custom picks (and a little elmers).  She's pretty much ready to go now, but the 13th fret is a bit high.  I hate to pay for a fret leveling when just that one is out of whack.  Maybe I'll finally get my own tools for fretwork.
 

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Cool guitar man!  Those PU's really look nice on that body.  I really like the idea of not having the middle pickup and having the neck/bridge instead.  Seems more useful, I mean how often do you ever use the middle PU anyway? 

Oh yeah, I read it as My-Space Caster at first. Sorta like the Facebook-Caster. :-)   Too much social media I guess. :-)  
 
Looks great!  I like the idea of the pick to cover the volume hole, a mini toggle that's not actually connected to anything could look cool, too - just tell people it's a mojo switch.  I think a black or tort pickguard would look especially killer with those pickups, but it's certainly not shabby as is - congrats! :)
 
Corey P. said:
Looks great!  I like the idea of the pick to cover the volume hole, a mini toggle that's not actually connected to anything could look cool, too - just tell people it's a mojo switch.  I think a black or tort pickguard would look especially killer with those pickups, but it's certainly not shabby as is - congrats! :)

Yeah, I've used dummy toggles in the past to fill holes that I no longer needed.  Since it is just a pickguard, I figured I would just glue a pick to it :).  I don't think a black pickguard would look as good.  I may go for a white pearl one in the future, though.  I think I just tend to like white pickguards.
 
So... it's the Justin Timberlake signature model? :icon_jokercolor:

It's a cool guitar, I've always liked the look of those pickups.
 
grimm26 said:
Yeah, I've used dummy toggles in the past to fill holes that I no longer needed.  Since it is just a pickguard, I figured I would just glue a pick to it :).  I don't think a black pickguard would look as good.  I may go for a white pearl one in the future, though.  I think I just tend to like white pickguards.

I can support that logic. :)
 
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