TheGreatRedDragon
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I kind of stumbled into this one.
A while back I came across this thread and immediately wanted a Graffiti Yellow Super Strat. I didn't know what specs, I just loved the color. A little while later I saw a very stripped down Strat build: Maple neck, one humbucker, white body, black pickguard and hardware. The simplicity struck me. Stripped down and hot rodded. The first thing that came to mind was this:
The Graffiti Yellow finish had a home. (it's not until making this post that I realize Graffiti Yellow is named for Harrison Ford's hot rodded 32 Ford from American Graffiti.
From there I planned the rest of the build. It would be cheap and simple but effective. With that in mind, I decided to use a non-locking 2-point trem and a set of locking tuners rather than a Floyd Rose. Aside from the volume pot, the only other control would be a push button killswitch. I also decided that the neck and body would come from the Showcase. If I had to wait for the right parts to show up I would wait.
Well wait I did. The necks I were after were all over the place but a Graffiti Yellow Strat body just would not pop up. Aaron even told me that it's something that would probably have to be BTO. I moved on to another project, a Charvel Pro-Mod parts build, but kept checking the RSS feed daily.
Then in mid-December the Graffiti Yellow Strat body pops up in the Showcase. The timing was about as lousy as it could be, I'd already sunk a huge bunch of cash into my Charvel project and was just days away from dropping more coin on the body finish, but there was no choice. So here it is (apologies for the phone pics):
Body is a standard Strat. Swamp Ash with a universal rout.
Neck specs are Modern construction, 1-11/16" nut width, 10-16" radius, Wolfgang profile, 6100SS frets and a black Tusq nut.
For the hardware, I went with a Gotoh 510 trem, Gotoh SG360 locking tuners, Dunlop strap locks, a 24mm Sanwa arcade button, a Bourns low friction 500k pot and a Jalen '78 (clone of a Duncan '78 for half the cost).
The neck is being finished in tung oil. Just following the directions on the can: Rub in a coat, wait 10 minutes, buff it all off, let it dry for 24 hrs, repeat. Two coats in and it's coming along very nicely.
The body assembly is mostly complete. I just have to install the strap locks. The knob is a placeholder, the black Strat tone knob I got from Warmoth was the wrong size. It doesn't match the theme but I kinda like it anyway.
A while back I came across this thread and immediately wanted a Graffiti Yellow Super Strat. I didn't know what specs, I just loved the color. A little while later I saw a very stripped down Strat build: Maple neck, one humbucker, white body, black pickguard and hardware. The simplicity struck me. Stripped down and hot rodded. The first thing that came to mind was this:
The Graffiti Yellow finish had a home. (it's not until making this post that I realize Graffiti Yellow is named for Harrison Ford's hot rodded 32 Ford from American Graffiti.
From there I planned the rest of the build. It would be cheap and simple but effective. With that in mind, I decided to use a non-locking 2-point trem and a set of locking tuners rather than a Floyd Rose. Aside from the volume pot, the only other control would be a push button killswitch. I also decided that the neck and body would come from the Showcase. If I had to wait for the right parts to show up I would wait.
Well wait I did. The necks I were after were all over the place but a Graffiti Yellow Strat body just would not pop up. Aaron even told me that it's something that would probably have to be BTO. I moved on to another project, a Charvel Pro-Mod parts build, but kept checking the RSS feed daily.
Then in mid-December the Graffiti Yellow Strat body pops up in the Showcase. The timing was about as lousy as it could be, I'd already sunk a huge bunch of cash into my Charvel project and was just days away from dropping more coin on the body finish, but there was no choice. So here it is (apologies for the phone pics):
Body is a standard Strat. Swamp Ash with a universal rout.
Neck specs are Modern construction, 1-11/16" nut width, 10-16" radius, Wolfgang profile, 6100SS frets and a black Tusq nut.
For the hardware, I went with a Gotoh 510 trem, Gotoh SG360 locking tuners, Dunlop strap locks, a 24mm Sanwa arcade button, a Bourns low friction 500k pot and a Jalen '78 (clone of a Duncan '78 for half the cost).
The neck is being finished in tung oil. Just following the directions on the can: Rub in a coat, wait 10 minutes, buff it all off, let it dry for 24 hrs, repeat. Two coats in and it's coming along very nicely.
The body assembly is mostly complete. I just have to install the strap locks. The knob is a placeholder, the black Strat tone knob I got from Warmoth was the wrong size. It doesn't match the theme but I kinda like it anyway.