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[Otrala]

I got this finished today. My 10 year old daughter chose how to build it (well, daddy helped a bit The specs are:

Body = Quilt Maple on Mahogany, Tummy Cut, Forearm Contour, Contoured Heel, Neck Pocket: Strat® with 720 Mod, Binding Top: Natural Masked Binding, Top Finish: Fire Burst, Back Finish: Clear Gloss

Neck = Kingwood Fretboard on Mahogany, 1 11/16" Nut Width, Standard thin, SS6115 (Stainless), 22 frets, 10-16" Compound Radius, Corian Skull & Cross Bones Inlay, GraphTech Black TUSQ XL, Clear Satin Nitro, 25-1/2 in. Scale

Hardware & electronics = Bare Knuckle Crawler Humbuckers, Super 5-way switch & 2 x push/push volume & 1 x tone; coil splitting, series/parallel, Wilkinson VS 100 tremolo, Schaller locking tuners

It sounds as great as I dared to expect. Thanks for this forum, Warmoth and Tim from Bare Knuckle!  

 

[Nando Vallart]

Very nice! Congrats!

 

[exaN]

Woooo that's sick dude ccasion14:

 

[m4rk0]

that is fantastic!! I love the matching headstock.. especially the black edges!! very fancy..

 

[Graffiti62]

Ohhh that's class man!  Nice job!

 

[dmraco]

VERY nice....

Whats the 720 mod?  Looking at the guitat I would thin it has something to do with the cutaways.

Nice job.

 

[Otrala]

Thanks for all nice comments! This is a quote from Warmoth: Our "720 Mod" lowers the floor of a standard neck pocket from .0625" to .0720".  This effectively reduces the height of the gap between the body top and the bottom of the fretboard at the 22nd fret. We also incorporate a very slight neck pocket floor angle into this mod for best set up results. If you don't use the pickguard, the neck sits much better (for your eyes definitely and maybe playability?) on the body with this mod. It's only offered for rear route bodies but not for carved top.

 

[Strat Avenger]

Is there still a gap between the body and fretboard overhang?  I ordered the .720 Mod and there is still a gap.

 

[Cagey]

Nice choices - it looks fantastic. Bet it plays like a dream.

 

[JaySwear]

love it! even the bone inlays, which i've honestly never really liked before this guitar.

 

[Otrala]

There still is a gap but so small (about 1,5 mm) that I don't find it disturbing. I would rather think that a small gap is only a good thing as there's no way you could harm the fretboard or body finish. I quess it's fine to slightly sand the neck pocket bottom if there's any fragments or it's clearly craggy but I wouldn't do nothing radical, at least by myself.

Going to take it to a well-known local luthier next week and finish the nut better as it seems to hold strings. Even though the nut is TUSQ XL it has to be exactly fitted to your strings and desired action (hight).

Oh yes, I'm stoked about this guitar

 

[OzziePete]

Is there still a gap between the body and fretboard overhang?  I ordered the .720 Mod and there is still a gap.

Yes, the gap is smaller so it looks less like you ahve taken off the pikcguard, which a bare rear routed Strat might look like sometimes. I don't think you can use it for bound necks tho.

Great looking Strat you have there, well done!

 

[Panthur]

That is a gorgeous guitar. I love the black edge to the burst with the binding, it's a really stunning top.  :icon_thumright:

 

[taez555]

Man, that thing is beautiful.  The clean line, clear back and black just up to the edges of the quilt top is stunning.

 

[rapfohl09]

Not crazy about the skull and bones, but I'm going NUTS over that finish! :icon_thumright:

 

[Otrala]

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[Otrala]

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[Cagey]

Not everybody has or wants a Facebook account.

 

[Otrala]

I will upload more... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYjVCydqm1g