strat project UPDATE

Mo Law-ka · Post by **Mo Law-ka** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:58 am

did this today at robert(original)'s house. the pickguard covers all the routing. i still need to drill the holes for screws, pots, and output.

its neck pickup only, and i plan on having a kill switch, volume and tone. cool, innit?

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:16 am

Lovely. Kind of '51ey.

letsgocoyote · Post by **letsgocoyote** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 3:24 am

dig. soehow i think it should have a bridge cover

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 3:30 am

I think it would look well with a big chrome control plate on it, like whatever is on those old Hagtsroms or whatever they are.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 3:31 am

dude, put a fucking strat jack on the guard

that would will be huge balls

Mo Law-ka · Post by **Mo Law-ka** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 3:33 am

i wish i could get a bridge cover for it, but its not one of the vintage style bridges.

i wish i could get some more chrome on it, but i dont want to drill any holes in the body.

that neck pickup sure will be lonely all the way up in that sea of pearloid.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 3:37 am

Double sided sticky tape?

Telenator · Post by **Telenator** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:02 am

Wow! Great minds think alike! I love the red/pearl combination on that guitar!

This guitar features the first neck that I built completely from scratch and boasts a longish 25 3/4" scale length! I built it in 1982.

The pickup is of the Kinman vairety and I got a little tricky with the tone control for this project. I wanted it to look very clean and simple so, I sawed the shaft off the tone pot, cut a little slot in it, and soldered it to the bottom of the volume pot. I don't often use the tone controls on my guitars but wanted to have the option of pre-setting it in case the guitar was too bright sounding. Anyway, there it is. The Monocaster!

Mo Law-ka · Post by **Mo Law-ka** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:52 am

pickup from the mysterious TRIBI

2 pots, theyre supposed to be vol-ton, but they dont work like that. its more like TON-nothing.

i also bought a killswitch, but havent installed it yet.

Mr.Ripley · Post by **Mr.Ripley** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:20 am

Mo Rocca wrote:2 pots, theyre supposed to be vol-ton, but they dont work like that. its more like TON-nothing.

One of your pots arenâ€™t grounded, On my tele project I did the same thing and when I fixed it I missed it so much that I put a mini toggle so that I could go between the strange tone tone circuit, which uses more of the amp's characteristics, and the volume tone.