One piece to go... transfigured fender

[Maltozombie]

Been a good while since i've been on here, but i finally almost have my first project finished. despite much criticism and frustration i actually managed to convert a standard tremolo routed strat into a hardtail firebreather  :guitaristgif:
it's not perfect, but i love it, it's definitely a great player's guitar. i love the feel and the output this thing has, the notes are very lush, i love the rosewood neck, the whole thing just sings. specs are below, with pics, (sorry for the pic quality, but eh...)

Let me know what you guys think  :icon_thumright:

Body - Standard Alder Satin Strat

Neck - Warmoth All Rosewood, 25 1/2 Scale, Pearloid Inlays, Graphite Nut.

Machine Heads - Locking Schallers

Bridge - Schaller 475 Hardtail

Pickups - Neck Humbucker/Bare Knuckle Cold Sweat  -  Bridge Humbucker/Dimarzio Super Distortion (wired pretty standard for a 5-way HH, Bridge at the bottom, coil splitting on the in betweens, center both on, and top is the neck only.)

Hardware is all Black......blacker than the blackest black....times infinity.

 

[Unwound G]

The guitar definitely looks Rock.  Good work and welcome to the forum.

 

[m4rk0]

Love it!

 

[zogoibi]

Looks promising.  Did you make the cavity plug or did you buy one of those Hipshot prefab jobbers?

 

[AutoBat]

the dethklok black hardware is brutal. i like it.

 

[Maltozombie]

Looks promising.  Did you make the cavity plug or did you buy one of those Hipshot prefab jobbers?

I got one of the hipshot blocks, then went to the local craft store and got a few blocks of mahogany and used a bandsaw to cut the pieces to size to fill in the gaps in the cavity that the hipshot didn't fill,
that being done, i fitted it into the cavity and glued the now enlarged block in, then screwed it in. cut a few shims out of the mahogany and wedged them into the millimeter sized gaps still remaining until the whole piece was solid as a rock.

 

[Nando Vallart]

Looks good, but you should get a matching bridge pickup!

 

[Maltozombie]

Looks good, but you should get a matching bridge pickup!

Therein lies the one piece to go... :-\ those Bare knuckle pickups (though absolutely amazing) are soooo pricey, but now that it's tax season i should be able to finish it up,
and i can put that super distortion into something else  :icon_thumright:

 

[-CB-]

Nice

 

[The Dealer]

Nice job. Looks like a nice Bridge and I love the neck, it's beautiful.

 

[Maltozombie]

Nice job. Looks like a nice Bridge and I love the neck, it's beautiful.

Thanks, i really want to get it completely finished with a  new pickguard and the bridge humbucker, and take some better pictures of it
maybe like some of those nice outdoor shots i see out there on the forum  :icon_thumright: