Strat/Mustang Hybrid

[Patriot54]

I thought I'd share my design for a Fender hybrid. It started out as a Frankenstein monster of a Strat, Jazzmaster, Tele and Mustang, but in the end it just looks like a Mustang/Strat, or a modified Cyclone. I'm going for a unique custom guitar, but still looks like it could have been made in Leo's shop in the '50s  :guitaristgif:

I love how it looks with the P90/humbucker hybrid at the bridge. I personally prefer transparent stains, but I think it would be awesome in a solid turquoise, candy red or yellow.

 

[rapfohl09]

I think it looks cool except for the strange jack. Otherwise I think what you've got there is totally on with your idea.

 

[Tipperman]

Yeah I would go for a Jazzmaster-style jack, maybe Jaguar pickups with the shielding claws + the p90 thing in the bridge. But thats just me. Really digging the concept, Patriot. Love that color on the Mustang body.

 

[ezas]

Personally I don't care for that style knob but the overall look is good. I think a little tweaking of the lines (mostly the pickguard shape) and it could be a really good looking guitar.  I like the jack at the end of the pickguard, just different enough an still look good. Captures that 'control plate' look of the early fenders.

 

[DangerousR6]

The "Stratustang"...

 

[Patriot54]

I'm not sure how I would make that jackplate since it arches out to match up with the pickguard, but I like how it looks on paper. Whenever this guitar does get built, I imagine abalone dots to match the turquoise, on a dark ebony fretboard.

+1 for the name Stratustang. So far I've been calling her The Muskrat, an evolution of Mus-Strat.

 

[MikeW]

I'd vote for StratOstang myself, but YMMV.

I dig the trans Turquoise. That's a great touch for the shape and vibe. I'd say that this would also be one of the few designs that a CBS headstock would work great on.

 

[Ddbltrbl]

I like it.  :icon_thumright: Particularly, the new location for the 5-way switch. I never liked the standard location, always hitting it by accident.
I would choose the solid turquois (or candy red or yellow) over the trans as well, but that's personal taste.
However, surely your going to get rid of that 6 screw antique?  ???

 

[stubhead]

Mustangs are great guitars, as long as you change the pickups, bridge, wiring, fretwire, neck and tuners. Which, ummm.... well, it kind of becomes more a "Mustang-shaped" guitar, in the same way that there are so very many "Telecaster-shaped" guitars around here. Back before the Trendoid pooftmasters established the Rules for Non-Conformity, John McLaughlin managed to record "In A Silent Way" and Bitches Brew" with Miles Davis using a Mustang, and much of the early work that MADE Johnny Winter into JOHNNY WINTER was done with a modded Mustang (and an Epiphone Wilshire)!