New Strat parts

[Kuro Uma]

While I'm waiting on my Koa Baritone parts I need a project to keep me busy. So i poked through the showcase and decided i want a Strat. I ordered these guys with some input from the wife.

Chambered HSS Ash\Flame maple simple strat body

Alcohol was drying too fast. you guys get the idea.

A birdseye maple neck with those Arizona turquoise stone inlays. Gold frets (wife's idea).

I saw a blue washed dye strat body in the showcase that was close to what I wanted but I want to try my hand at it myself.
Here's a crappy photoshop mockup of what I think it'll look like. we'll see. I want to mostly use satin chrome or nickel hardware with a touch of gold.

 

[alterbridgefan]

LOVE the inlays!

I want to see a build with bloody basin jasper dots.

SokinG iNn dA BLoooDi BasINn...... :cool01:

 

[DangerousR6]

LOVE the inlays!

I want to see a build with bloody basin jasper dots.

SokinG iNn dA BLoooDi BasINn...... :cool01:

Copy that, looks pretty badass, but I'm not into dot inlaysanymore. But I still love the contrast..

Photochop looks pretty good too... :headbang1:

 

[Cagey]

I'm with Mr. R6. Can't get next to inlays any more. Especially not in hair dresser colors.

If you must have them, on that color/wood combo I'd go with cream.

Seriously, with a fretboard that attractive, you should seriously consider a "no inlay" option. You'd be surprised how easy it is to just go by the side dots. The learning curve is very shallow. If you're at all like me, you may not even notice the loss.

 

[Jumble Jumble]

I really like the look of inlays. It's one of the iconic things about the guitar.

 

[Great Ape]

I like inlays, too...I like DOT inlays... :icon_tongue:...and that neck, with those inlays, is pretty unique, and that's not so easy to accomplish these days...

 

[Kuro Uma]

Actually after looking it over I believe the dots stick out so much because I want to go with a blue jean faded denim look on the body. My wife suggested a faded turquoise on the body. I'm starting to come around to this idea.

Something like this maybe

Or in this one you can see how matching the inlays kinda rounds out the guitar

Possibly burst the edges a bit like Warmoths own Aquamarine finish

Like this but a bit more faded like the second PRS pic?

Kinda like this (I'm horrible at creating a burst in photoshop)

or no burst

Thoughts?

 

[Kuro Uma]

I'm with Mr. R6. Can't get next to inlays any more. Especially not in hair dresser colors.

If you must have them, on that color/wood combo I'd go with cream.

Seriously, with a fretboard that attractive, you should seriously consider a "no inlay" option. You'd be surprised how easy it is to just go by the side dots. The learning curve is very shallow. If you're at all like me, you may not even notice the loss.

I don't need the dots, most players i know go off side dots if not by just muscle memory of where they are on the fretboard.  I never understood the how anyone could see their inlays on the front of the fretboard anyway.  I do prefer no inlays as many of my builds are this way. But this is how the neck was in the showcase. I thought it was unique and the gold frets were the wifes idea. I was just going to go stainless. Now after holding it in my hands I think she made a good call. It's purely cosmetic to me.

 

[Cagey]

I don't really care for any of the "burst" finishes in that color. To my eye, the unbursted PRS example is the best of the lot. But, that's a matter of taste, for which there is no accounting. It just seems like the fade to a darker blue is being done simply to say it's been done, not to enhance anything. Or, perhaps it's because turquoise isn't really blue; there's some green it it, so it doesn't really match up to blue very well.

Just as an exercise, I wonder how that top would fade to a darker green?

 

[Cagey]

I don't need the dots, most players i know go off side dots if not by just muscle memory of where they are on the fretboard.  I never understood the how anyone could see their inlays on the front of the fretboard anyway.  I do prefer no inlays as many of my builds are this way. But this is how the neck was in the showcase. I thought it was unique and the gold frets were the wifes idea. I was just going to go stainless. Now after holding it in my hands I think she made a good call. It's purely cosmetic to me.

I agree. I'm sort of an oddball in that I can see the fretboard, but that's because I've rarely played standing up for the last 13 years or so. I'm missing a lung and don't have the same control over my left side that I used to so I don't have the stamina or coordination for it. Liable to fall down, go boom <grin> Still, don't need the inlays. Side markers are plenty.

 

[DangerousR6]

The neck kinda reminds me of the Def Leppard Hysteria Jackson...


It's got blue eye ball inlays for the dots... :icon_biggrin:

 

[Kostas]

I prefer no burst, natural back and I always liked the idea of matching color inlays on the neck. It will look great, I have a washed blue and I like the color.

Some pics closer to what you are trying to accomplish

 

[mullyman]

I'm liking the turquoise inlays but I'm thinking the body color should be something similar or they'll stick out like a sore thumb. Kind of like a black suit with brown shoes.
MULLY

 

[JimBeed]

LOVE the inlays!

I want to see a build with bloody basin jasper dots.

SokinG iNn dA BLoooDi BasINn...... :cool01:

End of Summer hopefully......

Oh and nice guitar its seeming to look like, I think the look of the inlays is great personally. .