Guitar of the Year 2016 (Non-Pit Bull Guitar kits and Scratch Builds)

[gavinturner]

Thanks Waz! Thanks Gav!

cheers,
Gav (#2)

[JB RETRO]

That's really cool

[andrewdosborne]

Unreal Gav, pro job

Sent from Android N

[Andy40]

Fantastic Gav, truly stunning guitar.

[FredA]

Hey guys,
Here’s my entry: the ‘Red Plywood Strat’
This was a full renovation of a very distressed old strat body and neck that a friend left me.

Photos:








Build diary:
http://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au...ead.php?t=6189


The body was sanded back to wood, adapted to replace the bridge single coil by a humbucker, dyed red with colortone, and finished with gloss wipe on poly.
The neck is natural, also finished with gloss wipe on poly.

Plastic fret markers were replaced with paua

Electronics:
* Entwistle pickups (from PBG): 2 x XS62N for neck and middle, and 1x Nemesis AFG Bridge humbucker
* CTS pots with orange drop capacitor
* Schaller MegaSwitch E to allow combining individual coils from the bridge humbucker with the neck or middle single coil pick up. This offers 4x humbucking positions out of 5x instead of the standard 3x. More explanation here:
http://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au...l=1#post114520

Cheers!

[stan]

Dr N hot rod strat is awesome
Gav the burl 335 is lovely
Fred , I remember the build for this - great job

[G-Axe]

Great job on that plywood strat. It's got to be the cheapest, nastiest timber you can use (I imagine chipboard just doesn't hang together), but what you've done with it makes it look top notch. Love your work.

[Andy40]

Fantastic work as usual fred, should go well with your blue strat

[FredA]

@G-Axe: It's actually good quality plywood, not the cheap type you get from home renovation shops.
I read that a lot of strat copies used ply instead of solid wood before... anyway, this thing's got amazing sustain and very nice tone with the Entwistle pickups, but it is a lot heavier than my ash body STA1!

[DrNomis_44]

@ FredA That Strat is looking great, I like how the plywood shows through the finish along the edges of the body, it's a great effect, how does she sound and play?