NGD: Found a Strat in the local ads...

TheBurbz · Post by **TheBurbz** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:19 am

One of our old faves, a Rondo Music SX rebranded as Richwood:

Wait, shouldn't this be under "All other guitars"?

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NOOOOOOOO!

How much, you ask?

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Haze · Post by **Haze** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:44 am

looks a lot like one of them purdy 50s CV strats

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:48 am

TheBurbz wrote:Wait, shouldn't this be under "All other guitars"?

O.o
Looks closer to Gibson scale to me ..

Â£30, you cant go wrong!?

TheBurbz · Post by **TheBurbz** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:12 am

I'm not sure I like the sunburst, the wood grain is clearly a photograph stuck to the body, they haven't even printed it at a high resolution FFS

It would be funny if I wasn't serious.

johnnyseven · Post by **johnnyseven** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:32 am

TheBurbz wrote:I'm not sure I like the sunburst, the wood grain is clearly a photograph stuck to the body, they haven't even printed it at a high resolution FFS

Surely you could live with that for Â£30?

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:35 am

GOD I WANT A 24" STRAT SO MUCH. I WANT IT IN AGE|D OLY WHITE OR CREAM WITH A MAPLE NECK AND A PROPER STRAT HEADSTOCK

I am quite jealous. Top find!

rps-10 · Post by **rps-10** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:29 pm

That's an eye opener, never considered things like that would be anything other than 25.5"

TheBurbz · Post by **TheBurbz** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 3:46 pm

johnnyseven wrote:
TheBurbz wrote:I'm not sure I like the sunburst, the wood grain is clearly a photograph stuck to the body, they haven't even printed it at a high resolution FFS
Surely you could live with that for Â£30?

Of course. I think I may get a new pickguard though, what colour would suit sunburst?

gaybear · Post by **gaybear** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:55 pm

cream

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:03 pm

Classy HEadstock too, nice score.

gaybear · Post by **gaybear** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:05 pm

my post above was in regard to pick guard color, and not a euphamism for ejaculation of baby babies.

TheBurbz · Post by **TheBurbz** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 6:14 am

gaybear wrote:my post above was in regard to pick guard color, and not a euphamism for ejaculation of baby babies.

I was thinking that was an awfully enthusiastic comment for a guitar.

BTW, the guitar body is a good bit smaller than a standard Strat and the neck appears to be a conversion neck, at least the neck pocket and bridge saddles line up with those on my full-sized Strat. I was looking for more of these guitars on Google but I cannot find a single piece of info relating to a 24" Richwood, I thought it might be worth buying them for the necks alone if they're cheap enough.

EDIT: I just found out that my local guitar shop sells them with Rosewood necks instead for Â£89.99 new, I might buy another

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 9:30 am

So would the neck fit a normal strat body? Colour me interested if you ever flip this on!

TheBurbz · Post by **TheBurbz** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:18 am

Will do. I'm going to try it on my Squier Bullet later, just to be sure but I'm pretty sure it'll be okay.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:51 am

TheBurbz wrote:I'm not sure I like the sunburst, the wood grain is clearly a photograph stuck to the body, they haven't even printed it at a high resolution FFS

Pixelgrain FTW

TheBurbz · Post by **TheBurbz** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 4:00 pm

Hmm, I tried the neck on my Bullet and was about a quarter inch short of space to move my saddles forward, they hit the pivot screws on the tremolo plate. I noticed that the heel of the neck is cut at a slight angle so it does not sit up snug in the pocket of the Bullet, it's about 3mm out of square so sanding it straight would give me half of what I need. I might get some countersunk head screws and sink them into the tremolo plate, it looks amazing on my Bullet so I have to make it work!

cur · Post by **cur** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 5:16 pm

NIce find. The neck stuff has all been covered extensively before. They are a conversion neck same as newer jagmasters. A normal strat picguard will not fit that.

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 5:30 pm

cur wrote:NIce find. The neck stuff has all been covered extensively before. They are a conversion neck same as newer jagmasters. A normal strat picguard will not fit that.

Other than the angled butt, it should fit. I have a Jagmaster II neck on my strat that, with the bridge compensated a bit, works just dandy.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 8:35 pm

nice find, burbzy.

robbie (portugal_willie) has loaned me a Richwood Telecaster Thinline in Sunburst (and menstrualtort), and it has a proper rosewood tele neck and headstock. it's really a nice guitar (white/cream bound top), but shitty shitty p90's.

i'll have to take some pics of it.

TheBurbz · Post by **TheBurbz** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 12:22 pm

I just bought a twin brother.

I knew my local shop had them for Â£90 but when I went for a look they had them on sale, Â£10 off. Black, mint guard and rosewood neck...the neck is fucking ace, it's just like a Classic Vibe Squiers. Also bought a Roland Cube for knocking around the house...pics later, they're still in my car at the mo.

It looks like this:

I think I might put the rosewood neck on the sunburst one.

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