Acousticraft Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 (edited) I just finished my Strat Ive been working on for a little while. It has an Ash body, glued in Maple neck with Rosewood fingerboard and Brass nut with Vintage style tuners. The bridge is a tremelo which I havent come to grips with yet. Pickups are Kent Armstrong STV1 and have that classic Strat sound. I wired it so positions 1&2 use the top tone control, 3 has no tone and 4&5 use the bottom control. The cavities are fully shielded with aluminium foil tape and pickups and wiring loom is wrapped in copper tape. This thing is noiseless just like my other Humbucker guitars so Im really pleased. The sound options are amazing and 3 (centre pickup) gives a rich full sound almost like a Humbucker. Now I know what Strat quack is. The body I built, but the neck, electrics and hardware was given to me in exchange for a re fret on an Ibanez This is the first Strat I have ever built and all my other builds have Humbuckers. I also custom built the case for it as I have done for all my electrics. I always wondered what a single coil guitar would sound like thru my Valvetronic and all I can say is wow. Many of the amp models that I dont like so much with my Bucker guitars all sound good with this baby. http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g111/One...03Image0003.jpg http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g111/One...Image0004-3.jpg http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g111/One...Image0005-2.jpg http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g111/One...Image0006-2.jpg http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g111/One...Image0009-1.jpg Edited January 2, 2008 by Acousticraft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblaty Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 Lookin´ really great!! I´m a fan of natural strats, and that glued neck is also my favourite option... Post some progress protos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougK Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 I wont lie, I'd rather have a Strat more than just about any guitar. I love mine and looking forward to finishing the few Im working on. Im not normally a fan of Ash but in all clear it looks really sharp Bravo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitar101 Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 I just finished my Strat Ive been working on for a little while. It has an Ash body, glued in Maple neck with Rosewood fingerboard and Brass nut with Vintage style tuners. The bridge is a tremelo which I havent come to grips with yet. Pickups are Kent Armstrong STV1 and have that classic Strat sound. I wired it so positions 1&2 use the top tone control, 3 has no tone and 4&5 use the bottom control. The cavities are fully shielded with aluminium foil tape and pickups and wiring loom is wrapped in copper tape. This thing is noiseless just like my other Humbucker guitars so Im really pleased. The sound options are amazing and 3 (centre pickup) gives a rich full sound almost like a Humbucker. Now I know what Strat quack is. The body I built, but the neck, electrics and hardware was given to me in exchange for a re fret on an Ibanez This is the first Strat I have ever built and all my other builds have Humbuckers. I also custom built the case for it as I have done for all my electrics. I always wondered what a single coil guitar would sound like thru my Valvetronic and all I can say is wow. Many of the amp models that I dont like so much with my Bucker guitars all sound good with this baby. http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g111/One...03Image0003.jpg http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g111/One...Image0004-3.jpg http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g111/One...Image0005-2.jpg http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g111/One...Image0006-2.jpg http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g111/One...Image0009-1.jpg I have the Valvetrox 30 watt amp and I bought my son a Traynor YCS-50 . The Vox was a jump up from my solid state Marshall on the clean tones but let's put it this way I can't listen to the Vox anymore compared to the Traynor. Thats not a knock on the Vox the Traynor is more money. It's a great amp. congrats on the Strat it looks great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acousticraft Posted January 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 Thanks guys for the comments. The Strat certainly must be the most ergonomically designed guitar as they are so comfortable to play and so versatile for every style of music. It makes you appreciate the brilliance of Leo Fender how he made the neck out of one thin, cheap, easily machinable piece of wood and all the electrics mounted to the pick guard so it it preassembled and wired plus the removable neck. I have come to appreciate all these things as the build has progressed. The Chrome series Valvetronic like my AD50VT is no tube amp but for the price the sound quality is amazing. The blue series AD120VTX is certainly the king of the modelling amps and not far off a full blown tube amp for sound quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
low end fuzz Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 i find the 'stratocastor' the most boring and 'over advertised' guitar in the world; still; that is one niice looking guitar! besides the finish the simple look of that ash and your whole scheme just 'does it for me' thank you for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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