The pieces/parts finally arrived! Below, you'll see a picture of the body itself. Wild maple top on an alder strat body; the finish is black cherry burst. I was originally just going to get a black body, but I saw this in the showcase and I just had to have it. I personally thought this finish on this grain looked badass!
To me, the cherry blending to the wood just screamed gold hardware, a touch of class, if you will, imparting "sleeper" status. But I wanted tonality ranging from metal to blues, so I went with Seymour Duncan Hot Rails, Vintage Rails, and Cool Rails (bridge to neck). I chose these again for "sleeper status," as there is no big humbucker in the bridge, but the hot rails is a pretty high output pup (Dave Murray from Iron Maiden uses it in his strat). The trem is an original Floyd. Not shown are the screws for the pickguard; they're gold too. The output jack is a Planet Waves shielded jack. The switch is a 5 way CRL and the pots are RS guitarworks, as is the tone cap. I plan to initially stay simple with the wiring, so I'm going to wire it with the "Fralin blender" modification.
The neck I've ordered for it is a maple angled strat style with abalone dots and gold frets. Unforunately, the neck is still a couple of months out. Of course, Doug (Dangerous R6) is making me a custom gold neck plate.
arty07: :rock-on: :guitarplayer2:
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To me, the cherry blending to the wood just screamed gold hardware, a touch of class, if you will, imparting "sleeper" status. But I wanted tonality ranging from metal to blues, so I went with Seymour Duncan Hot Rails, Vintage Rails, and Cool Rails (bridge to neck). I chose these again for "sleeper status," as there is no big humbucker in the bridge, but the hot rails is a pretty high output pup (Dave Murray from Iron Maiden uses it in his strat). The trem is an original Floyd. Not shown are the screws for the pickguard; they're gold too. The output jack is a Planet Waves shielded jack. The switch is a 5 way CRL and the pots are RS guitarworks, as is the tone cap. I plan to initially stay simple with the wiring, so I'm going to wire it with the "Fralin blender" modification.
The neck I've ordered for it is a maple angled strat style with abalone dots and gold frets. Unforunately, the neck is still a couple of months out. Of course, Doug (Dangerous R6) is making me a custom gold neck plate.
arty07: :rock-on: :guitarplayer2:edited
