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| blazer
Member Username: blazer Post Number: 87 Registered: 12-2003 |
I am the proud owner of a late eighties Squier Stratocaster which I bought new on my fifteenth birthday back in 1991, this old girl, lovingly called "the Veteran" has been through a LOT of modifications but now I'm restoring her to strathood. But as to take three dimensional photograph I'm building a closely matching replica of how the "Veteran" used to look with the mods and all. I'm thinking of naming that one "The rookie" http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/My%20musical%20instruments/TheVeteran.jpg The "Veteran" before the restoration, the "Rookie" wil look just like this. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/My%20musical%20instruments/Rookie1.jpg Here's the raw maple with the strat routing template. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/My%20musical%20instruments/Rookie2.jpg After sawing off the exess wood, ready for routing. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/My%20musical%20instruments/Rookie3.jpg After routing, a nice clean maple strat body to be. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/My%20musical%20instruments/Rookie4.jpg Routing out the neck pocket, I put in the neck to check if I haven't routed it too dep, luckely, I got it right. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/My%20musical%20instruments/Rookie5.jpg And so I started working on the vibrato channel. And while doing so I completely forgot that I had a camera with me and failed to document the routing of the pickup and control routs, and of me bevelling the body. I only remembered my camera when I put the thing together to see how it looked. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/My%20musical%20instruments/Rookie6.jpg http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/My%20musical%20instruments/Rookie8.jpg The "Rookie" at home. The neck, Kahler Vibrato, pickups and pickguard all come from "the Veteran" as you can see I am FAR from finished, I need to drill the holes for the bushes of the vibrato and spray the body in sealer before I can add the first layers of red. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/Veteranandrookie.jpg The Veteran and the Rookie together, I still need to find a good bridge pickup for the "Veteran" as you can see I put the Kahler back in because I love the smooth feeling of that bridge so much. Luckely I have a second one. Compare the "Rookie" to the picture of the "Veteran" at the beginning of this post. It'll be a long time before I can play the "Rookie" but bot I'm having a ball just making it. | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 1529 Registered: 7-2004 |
Wouter: Very cool and impressive. I'm looking forward to the completed pictures and a full review. It this the first guitar that you've built? Bill, tgo. | ||
| gtrguy
Member Username: gtrguy Post Number: 73 Registered: 9-2004 |
I picked up a garage sale Strat clone with a full set of Fender noiseless pickups for $20 this summer. Turns out that with those pickups, it sounds better than my vintage Strat! They turn up on Ebay all the time. Dave | ||
| blazer
Member Username: blazer Post Number: 88 Registered: 12-2003 |
I did the last sanding job and put the body in primer. Now I need to start wet sanding (after the primer has dried of course) and then I can start applying the layers of color. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/Rookie12.jpg Boy I'm having fun with this. | ||
| blazer
Member Username: blazer Post Number: 89 Registered: 12-2003 |
Okay you guys, I finished Building the "Rookie" compare it with the Picture of the Veteran in the beginning of this thread. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/My%20musical%20instruments/P1010098.jpg http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/My%20musical%20instruments/P1010099.jpg As you guys can see, I went with a different neck. I could get this gorgeous Birdseye maple neck for a bargain price and I went for it. Apart from the headstock shape I suceeded in making a matching copy of the "Veteran" They look so similar that I have to catch myself sometimes. The swimmingpool rout of the Rookie gives it a very airy open sound, I figured that the all maple construction would result is a very bright sound but that's not the case, it has a very tight low end and it nails that David Gilmour tone when overdriven. All in all this project was a success. | ||
| dannobasso
Advanced Member Username: dannobasso Post Number: 355 Registered: 3-2004 |
Congrats! It should give you a lot of satisfaction. Love the tele style neck. This weekend i'm embarking on milling out a jap strat for a Fernandes Sustainer kit. I'm also putting on Sperzels. I'm not ambitious enough to work on finishes. Also have to figure out how to make a second single coil work with the kit. " Can you hear the sustain?...... Well if it was plugged in....." |
