Burnt Strat Bulid

jagsonic · Post by **jagsonic** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 9:11 am

Some days i shot a squier body on ebay which was quite cheap (i think because of the burnt finish), so i thought, it should be able to build a guitar with less than 100â‚¬. So i took the body, a P90 and a fender american standard tremolo out of my partsbox. Bought a neck, a pickguard and hardware from ebay and was at 96â‚¬.

So here's my Burntstrat. The body was finished so when i bought it. It was burnt with a blowtorch and finished with shellac. It feels very good!!!

.... and: it's not a tonepoti, its a volumepoti.

cooter · Post by **cooter** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 10:46 am

Nice job. I like it. Reminds me of the "barncaster" builds you see on some of the other forums.

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 12:18 pm

Nice, I'd rock that.

jagsonic · Post by **jagsonic** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 12:41 pm

The decal is shitty faked, so i'm thinking about burning the headstock, too. What do you think? Could this look cool?

Joey · Post by **Joey** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 1:39 pm

Back in wood shop class, we used to scorch pine with a blow torch. Sand it back just a bit and it looked really good.

Dude who did that finish, had no clue what the hell he was doing. He needs to go back to 6th grade.

jagsonic · Post by **jagsonic** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 1:47 pm

Joey wrote:Back in wood shop class, we used to scorch pine with a blow torch. Sand it back just a bit and it looked really good.

Dude who did that finish, had no clue what the hell he was doing. He needs to go back to 6th grade.

You mean he wanted to do a consistent finish? Then he failed. But it looks and feels good stained...

Chris Fleming · Post by **Chris Fleming** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 3:18 pm

I kinda like it. A burnt in leopard print might be quite groovey. Perhaps a slight amber tint on top?

BillClay · Post by **BillClay** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 4:11 pm

Burn dat headstock bro, finish the fight.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 4:16 pm

Love that, bet it sounds like a motherfucker with that P90. Nice choice with the blackguard... sweet bridge too, roller saddles?

jagsonic · Post by **jagsonic** » Tue Aug 13, 2013 8:27 am

thanks, don't ask for the saddles... I just had to have a look... It's a fixed tremolobridge from a '93 fender american standard strat.

cooter · Post by **cooter** » Tue Aug 13, 2013 10:06 am

jagsonic wrote:The decal is shitty faked, so i'm thinking about burning the headstock, too. What do you think? Could this look cool?

What about a black headstock to match the pickguard instead of a burnt headstock.
That way you can use the neck for something else later on if you ever need to.

jagsonic · Post by **jagsonic** » Tue Aug 13, 2013 2:06 pm

hmm, cool idea. I'm thinking about it...