DGNR8's Late Seventies Strat

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DGNR8's Late Seventies Strat

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DGNR8 had a couple late seventies ash strat bodies he wanted me to take a whack at. This one had a few routes that
had been filled with alder plugs. The small ledge for the trem was missing and needed to be replaced in a way that would be sturdy.
I knew I wanted to replace the alder plugs with ash but that was about the extent of my game plan at the time. He was great
about letting me take as much time as I needed to figure things out.

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First off was routing out the alder bridge pickup plug and filling it with an ash plug. This would be completely covered
by the pickguard so I wasn't extremely worried about it matching.

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Next up was the trem ledge and replacing the rest of the alder with ash. I decided to route out a 9/10" deep strip from the trem opening
all the way to the butt of the body. I made it slightly wider than the trem opening and I curved the edges inward as it entered the opening.

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Routed and sanded smooth. Now the trem has a proper ledge and DGNR8 can do the sunburst refinish he has planned. :D

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Top notch work, with the sunburst and a pickguard nobody would know. Impressive stuff!
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Awesome work!
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Very impressive man.
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Post by Gabriel »

Amazing skills there, very impressive work!
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Post by robert(original) »

thats a very nice match! good job!
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Dude. Who are you? Seriously, what sort of voodoo magic have you performed to have such awesome skills?

This is awesome!
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Post by JamGuy »

Holy crap... I'm very impressed with your work! I certainly don't have the tools or know how to do a job like that. Pretty cool that you can resurrect the big hair mods that so many of those 70's strats underwent. No offense to anyone with big hair... or those with a Floyd equipped strat, honestly they're pretty sweet IMO. Funny, nobody cared about molesting these 70's strats and now they're getting old enough to be desirable. I digress... fantastic work!
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Post by cooter »

Thanks guys. I usually send pics to whomever I do the work for and I leave it up to them if they choose to post those pics.
But, DGNR8 said it would be cool if I posted his. I was really happy with how it matched up but there was a good dose
of luck in there too.
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Post by cur »

good stuff cooter.

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Amazing work Cooter. Now if only someone would be able to work magic on all of those desecrated vintage Marshalls.
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nice one :shock:
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Post by paul_ »

The grain on the pickup plug matches top and bottom.

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paul_ wrote:The grain on the pickup plug matches top and bottom.

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Post by serfx »

Shit Son as much as I loathe Strats you've saved a body, and that is worth more then anything in the world, great work (as usual)

and knowing DGNR8's re-fin skills this'll end up looking better then anything coming out of the fender shop in the past five years.
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Post by DGNR8 »

I was going to have to post soon if Cooter didn't! Even in person this thing is an Escher box. It's more dubbed than spliced.

I am going to try for a no shit sunburst on it, per Cooter's suggestion. Why not, right? The big question is the bridge pickup patch, but even on that he got the lines to match up nicely. The lack of tint is deceiving. Just wait till the amber hits it.

I always photograph the process, but for this I will actually try to post them. The neck came without frets. It's going to be a bit of a job.
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