Hi Guys, just want to share my latest build with you.
This guitar is one of my body shapes with a slight tweak to to upper horn. The Body is a very lightweight Walnut with Rock Maple cap, and strips of Makaore, Wenge and PNG Rosewood.
The bolt on neck is from the same piece of Rock Maple with a Wenge fretboard, medium S/S frets. Locking tuners and a matching walnut skunk stripe on the back.
I went with a Wilkinson 2 point Trem, it's a pain in the ass to string up because you need string tension on it to lock it onto the two pivot posts. But once you have the 2 E strings fitted it holds itself in position and the rest of the strings mount up easily. I will try to just change one string at a time when re stringing. Other than that little niggle, it's a great Trem system and was super easy to setup for a smooth floating action. The best I have tried, for the money.
Pickups are Tonerider P-90's. Vintage 90 in the bridge and Hot 90's in the neck and middle positions. The middle pickup is RWRP and I have wired it with a 5-way switch, 1 vol, 1 tone. So you basically get your standard strat tones with noise cancelling in positions 2 and 4. I've used 250k pots with a .033 cap.
Looks like I have to resize some photos, I'll put them in the next post.
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