Hi guys,
Okay, so this is going to be my first build. I've been playing guitars with double humbuckers (badly) for a few years (well... actually that's 20 few years...) and with age I'm starting to enjoy a nice clean funky sound and I thought I needed a Strat. And then I found I could build one... let's do it!
So order was placed, and my kit arrived a few days later. That was couple weeks ago.
There was a slight issue with the pickups, electronics and nut bones, but Adam sorted it out and a week after I had all the right bits with me.
I got from PBG:
- STA-1M kit with gold hardware
- Pure Vintage Tonerider pickups
- replacement Bone nut
- The Dingotone Colourless Neck Finish
- Dingotone Guitar Wax
- And a few Dingotone Luthier supplies (sanding paper, steelwool and copper shielding kit)
The plan is to make something like the deep blue STA1 built by Gavinturner a few months back that won GOTM April 2015. I had a blue Strat in mind and when I saw Gavin's that was almost exactly what I had in mind!
So same concept but with maple fretboard, and looking at keeping the white pickguard.
I found some blue and black Colortone and I'm going to try and make a black-blue burst... wish me good luck!
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