Yeah its metallic blue waz.
I think the previous owner (there was only one) put them in probably early 90's
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Yeah its metallic blue waz.
I think the previous owner (there was only one) put them in probably early 90's
Someone's had a makeover :o
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Ooooh, so sexy now.
nice, it looks grreat
@ Andy40 That Strat is looking great now mate, the Metallic Blue you used looks a bit like the Metallic Blue I'm going to be using on my HotRod Strat.
looks sweet as Andy good job, I need to revisit about 50 odd of my builds should keep me busy for a while hahah
Thanks guys. all set up this morning and intonated. For me, I think I have the entire set up as near perfect as i can. That Wilkinson bridge is a dream to intonate.
Only one issue, (mainly for Ponch) once the tremolo springs are in place, they protrude about a .000015mm where they enter the block, the guitar body is slightly not thick enough. you can play no worries without the back plate, but I just did a makeshift "gasket" with some electrical tape so that back plate doesn't interfere with the strings.
More photos to come!
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Originally Posted by Andy40
There's another way you could fix that, what you do is you use a needle file to file a slight groove over each of the holes that the Trem Springs hook into, this will enable the springs to sit below the surface of the sustain-block (the big piece of metal that the springs hook into) and this will increase the clearance between the springs and the cover for the trem-spring route, I'll post a drawing to show what it should look like shortly.
Here we go, hope this helps:
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Alternatively you can cut out that section of the back plate to accept the trem block that is protruding which is what I do on all strats to make things easier to reload strings anyway.
I think Docs idea might work. Whenever i can put it down for a sec I'll take the back plate off and post a photo.