My new Strat build

TerminalVertigo · Post by **TerminalVertigo** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:41 am

Let me know what you think.

matocaster · Post by **matocaster** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:15 am

I dig it. Love the CBS headstock. Who did the relic work?

astro · Post by **astro** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:48 am

Cigarette burn on headstock = WIN

msteuk · Post by **msteuk** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:57 am

Lovely stuff

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:27 pm

matocaster wrote:I dig it. Love the CBS headstock. Who did the relic work?

+1 i like that neck.

not hot on the blonde though.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 2:06 pm

+ 2 on the CBS headstock.
Looks good. Im not sure how i feel about relicing but its a good job of it whoever did it.

James · Post by **James** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:53 pm

The body relicing looks great all except for the bit near the arm contour. I think it's because it looks like it has gloss on the top rather than being just bare wood. Perhaps it's just an odd reflection. The rest looks superb though.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 3:11 am

cool, I dig the blonde. there's a 70s strat in a local shop here that is like that, so secksy.

the only thing that looks obviously wrong to me is it looks like it yellowed and then wore. when IRL it would have yellowed as it wore.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:24 pm

Sexy as fuck. Is the neck a Squier? Until I looked at the fingerboard and neck joint I thought it was a real 70s one with the bullet truss missing.

luke · Post by **luke** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:39 pm

I think the cigarette burn ruins it for me, but it's otherwise a nice job. I don't get why all people who do fake relics have to get carried away and do the cigarette burn...

chisa · Post by **chisa** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:57 pm

Malik wrote:I don't get all people who do fake relics

corrected

DaveB · Post by **DaveB** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 4:33 am

I don't get why all people who do fake relics have to get carried away and do the cigarette burn...

30 years ago, half the used guitars out there had ciggy burns in the headstock. Not everybody was Keith Richards. I swear, he doesn't inhale.

Actually, my '73 Telecaster (blonde), had clear over the wear spots. It was only 12 years old at the time. Kinda brings a tear to my eye.

luke · Post by **luke** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:06 am

DaveB wrote:30 years ago, half the used guitars out there had ciggy burns in the headstock.

Even if half of all guitars had cigarette burns on the headstock, why do 100% of fake relics tend to have it these days? It just seems like all the relicers get carried away at the idea of getting to burn their piece.

chisa · Post by **chisa** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 6:25 pm

Malik wrote:
DaveB wrote:30 years ago, half the used guitars out there had ciggy burns in the headstock.
Even if half of all guitars had cigarette burns on the headstock, why do 100% of fake relics tend to have it these days? It just seems like all the relicers get carried away at the idea of getting to burn their piece.

it is the easiest "relic" to do

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:32 pm

Doesn't really matter. At least he pulled it off, the amount of poly'd fenders I've seen with a bubbled-up clear area near the low E and thought "oh my, you plonker."

Let's face it, having a cigarette burn on your headstock only really makes you look like you left a fag end in the strings and damaged your instrument, which is lame in and of itself. Use an ashtray, Sideshow Bob!

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:33 pm

i quite love this stratocaster which is weird coming from me. well done.

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:17 am

Good color. Overall a decent look. It will look better with age as it gets scuffed and played.

TerminalVertigo · Post by **TerminalVertigo** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 11:49 pm

Thanks Guys

This baby is now for sale, check the F/S thread for even better pics