One nicest things about the guitar visually is the lovely bird's eye figuring in the fingerboard and the abalone dots.
Aside from that it is very simple. It is not a lefty because I wanted "Hendrix string tension," as one of my friends observed. It is a lefty neck because that's what was on sale. If you look closely you can see the treble side dots on the neck. Those are original. I added dots to the bass side, something Hendrix probably did not need to do.
I can't remember why I got a hard tail. It was either to keep things simple or because they had a poplar hardtail body on sale.
I wanted to keep things as simple and clean as possible. The only exception is the switching. The middle "pot" is actually a four way switch which puts the rail humbucker pickups in H+H, S+H, H+S and S+S modes. There is push-pull switch on the tone pot that switches the S+S mode from traditional to humbucking mode.
Deets:
-- Bone nut from DB
-- Gotoh vintage (Kluson-style) machines
-- GFS Lil' Puncher (Modern Vintage) pickups
-- Oak Grigsby 3-way blade switch
-- Bourns master volume and tone pots, the latter with a DPDT push pull switch
-- 4-way, 3-gang rotary switch that somehow made it into my box of parts, I know not when or how, but it looked like decent quality...
-- Dragonfire custom cut pickguard
-- Pure Tone jack
-- Not sure on the brand of the string trees, bridge, strap-buttons or jackplate. I know they were inexpensive and nothing fancy, but seemed like decent quality.
It was originally going to be dark blue with a drawing of a spaceman on it that my oldest daughter made. I had logo drawn to make this an "Astrocaster" but she could not find the drawing I remembered. My son, meanwhile liked the "Bali Green" color...which had more of a surf vibe. So my youngest daughter, who is practicing her graffiti style made me an "Aquacaster" logo. Not sure I am crazy about the way I got it aligned, but my daughter thinks it's cool. After three daughters, my experience is that when your 15 year old says something is "cool" you should stick with it, because you may never hear that again.
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