New Strat

[ildar]

Hollow Poplar, quilt maple top.
I've included pics of it fresh out 'da box, and with the beginnings of a dye job on the top.

 

[RLW]

Looking good, what electronics are you installing? Details, man, details!!!

 

[ildar]

To ask for detail would be to presume that I have all of this planned out.  :dontknow:
I'm leaning toward EMG single coils, but that's right now, it can and will change. Guess I should also decide on what kind of neck pretty soon, huh?

 

[sundin4prez]

is that out of the showcase??

 

[ildar]

Yes, it was a showcase piece. I've heard the lukewarm opinions about poplar, but a hollow Strat for under $200 was too much temptation for me.

 

[-CB-]

Whadja use for dye?  Tell me it was RIT fabric dye....

 

[ildar]

hehehe...actually, no, it wasn't.
1st and 3rd washes were royal blue alcohol based dye, using powder I got from a guy on ebay. In between was black industrial pigment cut with lacquer thinner.
I didn't work up the testicular fortitude to use RIT, maybe on a swamp ash body I'm planning on buying after this one.

 

[nathan a]

About poplar.. you know what, if it was really terrible, warmoth wouldn't use it. Besides, you can take comfort knowing you're not depleting rainforests in search of tropical woods!

 

[rahimiiii]

That thing should have been rear routed!!!!!

 

[willyk]

That must be a pretty light body, hollow and all with that pickup route. What weight is it?

 

[ildar]

Well, it was 3lbs. 3oz. before I had them do rhe uni rout. It's probably just a shade under 3 lbs now.

 

[bpmorton777]

Poplar aint so bad...it could be agathis or whatever the crappy wood that Fender uses on their squire line.

Brian

 

[ildar]

Didn't Carvin use poplar for a while? Don't know what you guys think about their guitars, but poplar always struck me as a decent, middle-of-the road kind of wood.

 

[Soloshchenko]

Poplar aint so bad...it could be agathis or whatever the crappy wood that Fender uses on their squire line.

Brian

Poplar is a great tone wood often used for strats. It just doesn't look attractive. Nothing wrong with poplar strats!

 

[ildar]

Here's a shot of the body after about 8-9 coats of lacquer, and before a 320-grit rubdown.