justinianus
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Thought I'd post some pictures of my first build (first post as well, so I hope this works)
I've been customizing my guitars for over 10 years now, but this is my first build from scratch, and it turned out great!
Here are the specs:
Warmoth Vintage Modern Stratocaster neck
One piece Flame Maple
Standard Thin shape
Clear Gloss Finish
SS6150 (Stainless) frets
GraphTech Black TUSQ XL nut
Black dot inlays
Chrome Fender Locking tuners (with brass bushings)
Warmoth Telecaster Thinline 72 body
Flame Maple Top
Mahogany body
Tiger Eye dye finish
Tobacco Burst back finish
Natural Masked binding
Gotoh massive steel block vintage tremolo with PRS nickel/brass saddles
Warmoth custom Cream Pearl Thinline 72 Pickguard
Seymour Duncan JB Trembucker bridge pickup
Seymour Duncan P-rails neck pickup (wired rails to middle and P90 to neck)
CRL Stratocaster 5 way switch
2 Fender TBX tone pots, one wired to neck and one to middle
Push/Push Volume pot with trebble bleed
3 way mini toggle switch for bridge s/s/p wiring
2 way mini toggle switch for 7 sound mod + bridge tone
Amber speed knobs
US tele input
Schaller strap locks
The wiring is something I designed myself, and I'm very pleased with the sounds it gives me. I basically used a standard stratocaster 5 way switch wiring with some extra mods. I use the P-rails as two seperate pickups with a push/push pot to get all 4 sound options (Rails (middle)/P90 (neck)/humbucking series/humbucking parallel (stratocaster *2 in between like sound)).
I wired the bridge pickup to a mini toggle switch to be able to switch between humbucker series/single coil/parallel wiring. The *4 position gives me bridge+rails pickups, and the 2 way toggle switch adds the p90 to the selected pickup and also adds the neck tone pot to the bridge (these options give a more Telecaster like sound). The bridge pickup doesn't have a tone pot, so it gives a ''hot'' output (around 16k) and a very Les Paul like sound. The rails pickup has a very Stratocaster like sound with the TBX control on 10 for ''boosted'' trebble (it's passive so it's more of a change in focus than an actual boost, allthough it does give it about 0.5k extra output). The P90 has the typical ''hot'' singlecoil sound, with the TBX control on 10 for extra clarity it's a bit like a boosted stratocaster neck pickup (I like it a lot! and couldn't do without the TBX anymore).
I've been customizing my guitars for over 10 years now, but this is my first build from scratch, and it turned out great!
Here are the specs:
Warmoth Vintage Modern Stratocaster neck
One piece Flame Maple
Standard Thin shape
Clear Gloss Finish
SS6150 (Stainless) frets
GraphTech Black TUSQ XL nut
Black dot inlays
Chrome Fender Locking tuners (with brass bushings)
Warmoth Telecaster Thinline 72 body
Flame Maple Top
Mahogany body
Tiger Eye dye finish
Tobacco Burst back finish
Natural Masked binding
Gotoh massive steel block vintage tremolo with PRS nickel/brass saddles
Warmoth custom Cream Pearl Thinline 72 Pickguard
Seymour Duncan JB Trembucker bridge pickup
Seymour Duncan P-rails neck pickup (wired rails to middle and P90 to neck)
CRL Stratocaster 5 way switch
2 Fender TBX tone pots, one wired to neck and one to middle
Push/Push Volume pot with trebble bleed
3 way mini toggle switch for bridge s/s/p wiring
2 way mini toggle switch for 7 sound mod + bridge tone
Amber speed knobs
US tele input
Schaller strap locks
The wiring is something I designed myself, and I'm very pleased with the sounds it gives me. I basically used a standard stratocaster 5 way switch wiring with some extra mods. I use the P-rails as two seperate pickups with a push/push pot to get all 4 sound options (Rails (middle)/P90 (neck)/humbucking series/humbucking parallel (stratocaster *2 in between like sound)).
I wired the bridge pickup to a mini toggle switch to be able to switch between humbucker series/single coil/parallel wiring. The *4 position gives me bridge+rails pickups, and the 2 way toggle switch adds the p90 to the selected pickup and also adds the neck tone pot to the bridge (these options give a more Telecaster like sound). The bridge pickup doesn't have a tone pot, so it gives a ''hot'' output (around 16k) and a very Les Paul like sound. The rails pickup has a very Stratocaster like sound with the TBX control on 10 for ''boosted'' trebble (it's passive so it's more of a change in focus than an actual boost, allthough it does give it about 0.5k extra output). The P90 has the typical ''hot'' singlecoil sound, with the TBX control on 10 for extra clarity it's a bit like a boosted stratocaster neck pickup (I like it a lot! and couldn't do without the TBX anymore).
