DrNomis_44's Gold Standard STA-1M Build.

[stan]

haha turn it up and let the speaker cone push it along...

[DrNomis_44]

haha turn it up and let the speaker cone push it along...

Hahahaha....yep, that's it mate.


I'm just about to start spray-painting the Gold Strat body, I've made a wooden handle with a hook on the end of it that gets screwed to the body where the neck normally goes, definitely makes life a lot easier when Spray Painting, I'm going to spray the body using the White Knight White Undercoat paint, will post a pic after it's done.

[wazkelly]

How is the scale length on the 22 fret neck? Does the end of the Fret Board hang over the leading edge of the scratch plate or is it solid to the end of the heel?

Looked into a 22 fret neck for my Tele and they were some of the issues that I was likely to encounter and just stuck with the standard neck to be on the safe side. Some of the ones I looked at had the FB protruding that little bit further south to accommodate the extra fret and thus not affect scale length but from memory they were the dearer ones from USA rather than cheapies out of China.

[DrNomis_44]

How is the scale length on the 22 fret neck? Does the end of the Fret Board hang over the leading edge of the scratch plate or is it solid to the end of the heel?

Looked into a 22 fret neck for my Tele and they were some of the issues that I was likely to encounter and just stuck with the standard neck to be on the safe side. Some of the ones I looked at had the FB protruding that little bit further south to accommodate the extra fret and thus not affect scale length but from memory they were the dearer ones from USA rather than cheapies out of China.

I checked the scale-length and it's a Fender 25.50 Inch, and as far as I could tell there weren't going to be any issues with setting the intonation right, yes, the 22nd Fret sits just above the heel of the guitar, on an overhang over the leading-edge, it's really just the same as a 21-Fret neck except for the extra 22nd-fret, so if you were to swap-out the stock neck on your Tele for a 22-fret neck, provided it fits the neck pocket, you should have no major issues.

On the Scratchplate for my Gold Strat, there seems to be more than enough clearance between the neck-pickup hole and the overhang on the 22-fret neck I'm using, and as far as I can tell, the overhang does not affect the scale-length in any way whatsoever, I'm not sure what country my Mighty Mite 22-fret Maple Neck was made in, the seller I bought it from was located in America, I think from memory the neck cost me about US$180.00 all up.

One thing you do need to be mindful of is the clearance between the neck overhang and the surface of the body of the guitar, it needs to be big enough so that it'll accommodate the thickness of the Scratchplate, otherwise the neck will tilt up at a slight angle in the neck pocket.


I just finished spraying the body with the White Undercoat and will post a couple of pics shortly.


Here's what the neck overhang looks like viewed from the side of the neck: