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Some of the very cheap Chinese strat copies you see on Ebay have bodies made of MDF. I'm talking about the extremely cheap ones. A friend of mine bought one for £39.99 and brought it round to me for setting up. One of the pickups wasn't working, so I removed the scratchplate to check the wiring, and hey presto, the body was made of MDF with a polyester type coating. There was a wire off the pickup selector, which I resoldered, reassembled the guitar (did some fret levelling!), and it sounds quite reasonable, although not brilliant, due partly because of the crap pickups. They have a DC resistance of just 4k, and are as light as a feather. I wonder how it would sound with a set of Iron Gear pups...
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They were probably disposed of. The ones he set on fire were in pretty poor condition, I think right at the end of their recycling life. I was a coach driver from 1968 onwards, and on three occasions I drove people up to London to see Hendrix perform. Coach drivers usually watched the shows from the wings backstage (always free admittance, drivers' perks), and I've seen the broken guitar parts being assembled into something just about playable, and Hendrix dashing in to swap guitar just before the end of the set. Of course, as a coach driver, I could never stay long enough to see what happened to the burnt guitars as I had to get back to the coach ready for the passengers.
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Not really a new idea, is it? Jimmi Hendrix kept all the broken bits of the few guitars he smashed. These bits were then fastened together to be used in future gigs. He would go off stage just before the end of his act and put his good guitar down, and pick up one that had been roughly put together out of bits. Then back on the stage to finish the last number before destroying the bits'n'pieces guitar. The bits would be kept again ready for "recycling". So, you could say Hendrix created the first guitars made for smashing. I don't know how many good guitars he smashed, but I believe it was very few.
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The Marshall Rocket Special is a Strat copy aimed at the beginner. They've been around for a few years. Nothing special, but the bridge pickup isn't bad for a starter guitar http://www.dv247.com/guitars/marshall-gap1...amp-pack--46712
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It is very possible it is really a 24 fret plus a zero fret = 25 frets total. I've seen a number of necks and fretboards advertised on Ebay like that.
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I have also thought about this problem as well. How dangerous do you think this is? On that page there people who say that it's fine, but presonally doubt it a little bit. Does it have to be then an incredibly strong wood? Does it mean that if I use something as maple it will be just be split in two the second day I build it? That point on the neck would, in my opinion, be in the range of very weak to fairly weak, depending on the type of wood used. A laminated neck may possibly stand the strain for a considerable time, but I certainly wouldn't chance it on a solid neck. The question is, would it stand up to being knocked or dropped? What would happen if the guitar fell off a stand, or something similar? Not something I would personally trust.
