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colabonham wrote:Yup, I'm basically ready to start the hunt for a steel block etc. which (probably) have to be changed. Something about the color is really alluring. I hope it'll be even more orangy in nature.
I think someone should make a guitar out of Ikea chopping boards. Just for the hell of it.

If you get the one from GFS (which I recommend) you might have to get a new bridge plate as well - the block didn't fit the original plate on my squier. If were you I'd spend the extra few quid to get the whole trem...

http://store.guitarfetish.com/minmeimstupt.html

swap the saddles over etc

Good advice! And it seems they ship to my neck of the woods, too which isn't sadly very common.

colabonham wrote:Good advice! And it seems they ship to my neck of the woods, too which isn't sadly very common.

You could always just ask Santa for one, since he lives there apparently

So I went and traded my rumble for the guitar.

First impressions:

"Hey this ain't bad!"
"I have to change the pickguard"
Pup's are actually quite good, don't think I'll change them.
Too soon to say anything about the tremolo, it works an stuff.

I'll put pictures when I get all of my new stuff here so that I can make group photos.

I really dig the earthy look of that strat. Is it as you pictured in the original post?

Yup, it look like the one in the picture, but more orange = win. It's strange, since the guitar is basically everything I do not like in guitars.
1. It's a Strat of all things (nothing personal, just way Claptonized these days)
2. Natural (or semi?) finish. It feels so wrong yet so right.

Ugly tort pickguard, the cheap ones where you can see where one piece of the "tort" has ended and another began. I reckon a black pickguard should fix it.

Also bad: It has been brutalized , some dings etc. Which the guy I got it from didn't mention, but hey, they do not interfere with the playing.

Good: It definitely has seen some pro TLC, since it has been set up really nicely, frets are 100%, the pup's seem like they have been worked on as well.

I was expecting for some reason the seller to about the same age as me, but he was a 40-something bass player who had used the guitar for old-school r'n'b and surf.

colabonham wrote:I think someone should make a guitar out of Ikea chopping boards. Just for the hell of it.

i've seen one, strangely enough. i think fran posted an ebay auction a while back with that very thing.

does the guitar play fine colabonham?

Yes, actually it does. Nice guitar, I think I'll hang on to this one for now.