First build

[euroa guitars]

This thread makes me feel so much better about my soon to be 12 month old EXA build. Did you have the pyrography done or was it all you with a fine soldering iron Euroa?

I'm not that good! The pyrograpghy was done by a local artist she goes by the name of Gee-Gal on facebook she also did the pyrography on my scratch built tele. Check out her facebook page she is carving a redback into a pitbull tele kit for her partner, it is amazing. Below is the snake tele she did the artwork for.

[FrankenWashie]

Stunning work. Will have to flip over to Facebook and view some of her other work.

[euroa guitars]

Wasastrat started 2 1/2 years ago as my first kit build an ST-1. Had big plans for this kit, but then got busy with custom jobs and repairs and it was put on the backburner.
It is a vastly different guitar to what I envisaged but more than happy with the end result.

Now for the mods:

Fretboard was de-fretted, sanded to a 16 inch radius Inlayed with Paua Shell dots and refretted with medium jumbo frets
Back of body sprayed in Purple Mica, custom pyrography by local artist on front and sprayed with precat lacquer
Grover style black and white tuners. Bone nut
Custom cut pickguard with bridge humbucker Hot PAF style 11.2k push pull vol pot for series and parallel, vintage style trem.

[Simon Barden]

Well, what a change from the original Strat kit! Looking superb. You've done a lot of great work to it.

How are you getting on with the 16" radius neck? I've got a 12"-18" compound Warmoth neck on a Tele and I find it too flat for me.

[euroa guitars]

Well, what a change from the original Strat kit! Looking superb. You've done a lot of great work to it.

How are you getting on with the 16" radius neck? I've got a 12"-18" compound Warmoth neck on a Tele and I find it too flat for me.

Hi Simon, thanks it is a big change from the original kit. I wouldn't have refretted it originally but it was stored in my not so water tight garage for some time and the frets were in bad shape, also the side chamfer was a bit extreme from the factory so it really needed a refret. Because of that I decided to go a bit extreme with the changes, its a bit of a beast with just the bridge pickup it screams (in a good way) so just have to find a rock chick to sell it to lol!
As far as the radius is concerned most of my scratch builds either have a full 12 inch radius or a 12 to 16 inch compound radius. It feels okay and I think for the type of guitar it is works well. Its definitely no longer a strat!

[Simon Barden]

I think I meant 12" to 16" as well!

10" on my Gibsons is fine for me, even the 12" on my Ibanez RG is fine, but 12" on a Tele just seems wrong to me. Maybe it's a combination of fairly flat plus something about the neck profile that puts me off the Warmoth neck. Maybe for me it works better with the flatter Ibanez style neck profile. But that's just me.

[euroa guitars]

I think I meant 12" to 16" as well!

10" on my Gibsons is fine for me, even the 12" on my Ibanez RG is fine, but 12" on a Tele just seems wrong to me. Maybe it's a combination of fairly flat plus something about the neck profile that puts me off the Warmoth neck. Maybe for me it works better with the flatter Ibanez style neck profile. But that's just me.

Yeah its funny I did a custom explorer for a client and it had a 12 to 16 compound radius with a base ball style neck,he loves it, horses for courses I suppose. Me doesn't make much difference I still play badly

[andrewdosborne]

Really nice Eurora, love what you have done to the ST-1 kit

[euroa guitars]

Really nice Eurora, love what you have done to the ST-1 kit

Thanks Andrew...It took long enough

[christodav]

It's not my personal 'cup of tea', however, those guitars look like a work of art and you can see how much time and effort has gone into them. Well done for being original and thinking outside the box. They are like tattoos! I have no doubt that they play really well like custom guitars should.

Chris