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  1. ...and for my next trick I will bake a guitar entirely out of sponge cake and try to play it!!!!! Only kidding (my oven isn't big enough). I had thought of practising on Pine as it is disposably cheap and good to get used to using the proper tools on. BTW, should I use a P90 on my sponge guitar, or perhaps a couple of single coils?
  2. I've always thought that the deep pickup routings and 'overlapping' rear trem routings of a strat severely 'thin' the wood between where the neck joins and the bridge sits - look at a les paul and the neck runs a thick solid route all the way to the bridge mounts - excellent solid transmission from the top of the neck to the bridge. Maybe they could design a trem where the springs sit behind the bridge, with a trem routing in all that 'unused' wood between the bridge and the strap button!!!
  3. I got my neck for my Strat project from WilberryCastle on eBay.com (search under Seller name of 'wildberryskittles') - took just under 5 weeks to ship from America, but exchange rate is sooo good at the moment that it cost me 1/3rd of the price even with postage (Mighty Mite Birdseye Maple Rosewood fretboard - cost over here £200+, total cost including shipping £68 !). Exchange rate is now even better than when I ordered mine. Also got a Wilkinson trem for just over £30 new from same place - this was lighter and went through letter post, so took only 3 days!!! I'm doing the same as you for my first project and it's going great so far. Top tip - never assume anything is 'standard', and never rush something - I now have to order a custom pickguard slightly wider than a standard strat one as I made a cockup modifying the pickup routing!!! Best of luck.
  4. Hey basey, My cat passed away last year, so my project guitar is a tribute to her.. Here's the headstock decal... ..the guitar (as you mave guessed) is a Strat copy (built from parts off e-bay!). Hopefully it will purr when I get to play it!
  5. While we're on the subject, I have a Strat body which previously had a standard 6-hole mounting tremolo on it. I have bought a Wilkinson VS50 to mount on this, which is a two post pivot type, and need to know a few things: Firstly, on a standard 6-hole strat trem, do the 6 mounting holes each deliberatly line up with the centre of each of the six strings? (I don't have a standard trem to test this theory out! I need to know where the ccentreline of the guitar sits. Secondly, I have downloaded the CAD drawing of the Wilkinson routing and mounting holes, and it mentions the 'center of intonation'. If I measure from the fretboard edge of the nut on the neck, to the center of intonation, should this be equal to the scale length? i.e. helping me position the bridge correctly? And lastly, is the center of intonation about halfway between the furthest set back saddle (low E) to the furthest forward saddle (top E)? I'm hoping the simple answer is: 'center the two mounting posts on the six holes already in it'. There's plenty of adjustment on the saddles for intonation, but I'd like to do a pro job rather than risk ending up discovering problems with it later on. Cheers in advance!
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