• From: Detroit
  • Registered: 2006-06-02
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Topic: Parts-built strat photos

Here is a link to a gig I played last weekend at Detroit's Maker Faire. It's a fair for local inventors and it was help at the Henry Ford Museum.  They were looking for musical acts to play their main stage, so I told them I've built strats from parts and have done guitar pickups before, so they gave us a gig.

here are the photos
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=7 … 52f84e2883

enjoy
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  • Registered: 2008-10-02
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Re: Parts-built strat photos

Nice! I so want to build one, the singer in my band has an old Squire body with all the parts he said I could have for nothin I just can't find a cheap neck to put on it yet!

  • From: Detroit
  • Registered: 2006-06-02
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Re: Parts-built strat photos

I got my neck from Torresengineering dot com
http://torresengineering.com/

it was back when they still sold Fender shaped necks. Mighy Mite has some fairy cheap strat necks that feel ok, they just need some fret finishing and nut work.

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  • Registered: 2008-03-07
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Re: Parts-built strat photos

NICE !!

Was the neck that color when you bought it or is there a way of making them look old

I have a 25yr old squier strat with a neck that color but my hendrix strat looks too new ??

"Everybody's entitled to my opinion. wink
  • From: Germany
  • Registered: 2006-05-02
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Re: Parts-built strat photos

hi there,

great looking Strat...  *thumbs up*

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  • From: Detroit
  • Registered: 2006-06-02
  • Posts: 5,807

Re: Parts-built strat photos

SOFTMC wrote:

NICE !!

Was the neck that color when you bought it or is there a way of making them look old

I have a 25yr old squier strat with a neck that color but my hendrix strat looks too new ??

It came looking brand new. It had a ton of laquer on it and I had a luthier thin it out a little. The rest is just from hard playing. I built the guitar in 2001, so it's been played quite a bit.

- Nic from Detroit... posting on JB's Forum since 6-2-2006
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