Since I've been having some issues with all the Floyd Rose style Locking-Nuts I've tried on my Hot Rod Strat, I thought that I would try a different approach/tactic to fixing the issues, so, I was thinking to myself about seeing if I could fit my Charvette neck to the Hot Rod Strat body, and was wondering if it would actually fit the neck pocket, so I gave it a try and it does indeed fit the neck pocket, it is even a 22-fret neck like the original Strat Style neck, it's a bit of a tight fit but it does seem to fit well, I can push the neck down into the pocket so that it sits flush with the bottom, so no issues there, the scale length is fine ( it's a Fender 25.5 inch same as the Strat-Style neck so no issues there), just need to dowel and re-drill the neck mounting screw holes and it should be fine, here's a pic of the guitar with the Charvette neck fitted, it looks more like an 80's shred machine now, I think it looks cool, I'm keeping the Schaller Lockmeister bridge though as it seems to be still useable:
I'm calling it my Custom Hot Rod Strat 2.0 now as it's the second version of he design.
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