Hi all
I haven't been on the forum much lately, but I thought I share one of my project that I am doing at the moment, and since its a music theme, I place it here in the lounge. with moving just over 12 months ago, I have been able to get some of my guitars out of storage.
one of these is this stratacastor I rescued, I thought it had potential and desevred to be rebuilt, we will call it the techno color yawn, and no, I am not responsible for its state.
yuk.......
LET THE RESCUE BEGIN
STRIPPING BACK TO WOOD
STRIPPE.
at this stage, all screw hole are drilled to 5.5mm and 6mm dowel is glued and hammered in, then sanded flush, for new screw mounts.
NEW GEAR
New prewired scratch plate, wired with two single and one humbuck pick up, this also has active elctronics on both the middle pot and bottom pot, the middle is the equalizer, the bottom has effects, also a new neck is brought with shipping, from the states, $250, not bad at all
LET THE PAINTING BEGIN
I am using the P&P candy apple paint system which is in pressure pack cans
four couts of silver flake base
four coats of gold, two of trangerine orange
starting the fire engine red coats
red finished
mid stage, plate sitting in to check look
two coats of chocalate brown, thenthe matt black coat
even I am impressed how it is turning out, from a pressure pack can system
next, let it dry then 6 ccoats of clear, cut then polish
stay tuned.....work in progress
Nice man! I'm a complete guitar whore.. import a lot from japan to sell locally. Went through a phase of building my own but I dunno, you end up spending as much as just buying one.
Metallic Sunburst, don't see that too often.. Actually I recon I've only seen it on Gibsons as 'Silverburst'.. Very cool!
Very noice!!
Thanks for the support.
I have sanded the coats in to each other and gave it five coats of clear, I am leaving it for another week to let the clear set before cut and polish.
this is going to make a good pratice guitar, not like how it started.
I keep an update as it progress is made
What's the neck you're getting for it? And what pickups are they? Original tone pots?
sorry for the delay in responding. been away for the holidays
The neck is an un finished fender strat copy, needs to be stained and sealed.
the pre wired plate is a single humbuck at the bridge and two singles for mid and neck and active electronics, it is even wired for stereo output at the jack.
this is going to make a good pratice guitar
here is a description from the website of the features
Features include:
Black Active Dragonfire Pickups, an 85A at the bridge and 2 single coils S pickups for the middle and neck.
Your choice of pickguard colors,
Black Knobs
EXP and BCU Onboard Effects
We took a good setup and made it affordable for you!
All wired and ready. Solder wires to your input jack and connect a 9V battery
See what our setup offers,
The 85A- Based on the EMG 85, our pickups uses a alnico magnet for a rich, warm tone with lots of output.
Active Single Coil Pickups -
Based on the EMG S pickup, our active single coil offers the same tone for a fraction of the cost. Uses a ceramic magnet for clear and crips tone.
7 Way Switching -
We use a push/pull 25k volume pot and do a little fancy wiring here
. When the switch is down, the switch is that of a normal Strat.
Pull the switch up, and you engage the Bridge pickup in any postition that the switch is in. So in position 4 and the pot pulled up, you have all 3 pickups on. In position 5, the neck and the bridge pickups are both active.
The BAND CONTROL UNIT
Every guitar pickup has a natural resonance characteristic. The BCU is designed to supplement the resonance and to change the frequency and gain spontaneously to provide the controllable parametric EQ option
. The BCU will give you a chance to experience the sound that starts from the bright tone of vintage Tele to the fat, mid-tone of a humbucking pickup .
Knob 0; leads your pickup to sound more rich, fat and warm by boosting the gain in a mid-range and reduce the low and high frequency range. You can have a humbucking sound from your single coil pickup.
Knob at 5-leads your pickup to give the harmonics a boost. Shifting the mid-high band slightly and reduce the gain in low-mid band.
Knob at 10 -leads your pickup sound more bright and distinctive tone by expanding your guitar sound. Low and high frequency will be boosted while mid range is ’V’ shaped It has a powerful bass and treble by boosting a high and low frequency range while mid range is ’V’ shaped.
Just pull the knob to up to engage the BCU.
THE EXP
The EXP is a combined equalizer that has three unique functions in one unit. First is the frequency expander, second is a mid-band peak control and third is a flat booster.
Knob 0; leads your pickup sound weightier and rich by boosting the gain in a mid-range and reduce the low and high frequency range
Knob 5 ; leads your pickup sound the harmonics a boost. It is similar to ordinary flat booster.
Knob 10 ; gives your pickup crystal-clear and vivid tone by expanding the frequency range. It has a powerful bass and treble by boosting a high and low frequency range while mid range is ’V’ shaped.
Just pull the knob to up to bypass EXP
All this at the turn of a knob! And all without a pedal.
So what do we have when we combine it all.
You have a pickguard that has just about any tone you may need. From a Strat, pull the volume knob up, and you have the sounds of a Tele, roll the BCU and turn those single coils into fat humbuckers, making your strat sound like an LP.Kick in the EXP and have that sought after Clapton "woman tone"!
Nice thing is you only need ONE battery!
We have it all wired and ready, we even supply the stereo input jack!
I brought both plate and neck through an ebay shop called Guitarpartsonline
here is the link to the plate page
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all up with the neck and shipping , it cost me $250
the pre wired plate was US $140
I also had to open the slot for the bridge pickup and
notch the slot for the pots to allow it to fit,
as this is a strat copy and not a real fender, I didn't have a proble doing that to the body
