Been thinking about this as of late.
I have at this point replaced my neck, trem, tuners, neck pickup, pickguard/knobs, volume pot...on my one owner 1996 (50th anniversary) American Lonestar Strat. This all started out as a neck swap because of a bout of tendentious and steamrolled from there.
I have not gone the full build because I simply could not afford it all at once...and it was easier to upgrade a well known instrument over a completely new build (wanting to "fine tune" a known pleasurable feel and tone over a start from scratch deal).
So now I sort of feel bad for messing with a classic guitar. Looking on reverb...it seems like they are not at an over the moon price or anything...but I still feel it's sort of wrong to dismantle a USA Strat and have its guts sitting in storage.
Have any of you guys/gals had this experience?
Been looking at bodies this week...but I am so happy with my current guitar right now I don't want to bother.
I have at this point replaced my neck, trem, tuners, neck pickup, pickguard/knobs, volume pot...on my one owner 1996 (50th anniversary) American Lonestar Strat. This all started out as a neck swap because of a bout of tendentious and steamrolled from there.
I have not gone the full build because I simply could not afford it all at once...and it was easier to upgrade a well known instrument over a completely new build (wanting to "fine tune" a known pleasurable feel and tone over a start from scratch deal).
So now I sort of feel bad for messing with a classic guitar. Looking on reverb...it seems like they are not at an over the moon price or anything...but I still feel it's sort of wrong to dismantle a USA Strat and have its guts sitting in storage.
Have any of you guys/gals had this experience?
Been looking at bodies this week...but I am so happy with my current guitar right now I don't want to bother.