badger71
New member
Well, I got the bug to build a guitar with a nod to one of my favorite guitarists, Dave Murray. So, I dug around and found that Fender made this guitar, the Straight Six Stratocaster. The body and neck have thin lacquer, not poly.
I got that from the Music Zoo...great service, btw. I then found some chrome pickup rings online and ordered a prewired Fat Strat pickguard from guitarfetish.com. I swapped out the Fender tuners for some locking tuners I had lying around. I then ordered the Mexican Strat upgrade pack from Callaham which included a stainless steel trem block, shortened arm, stainless saddles, and hardened screws. I had a couple single coils lying around as well and picked the one that I felt would sit the best in between the humbuckers. After getting done what I could, I sent the guitar over to Jim Crawford for fretwork, rewiring, and single coil installing. I just got it back today. The bridge and middle are wired to the tone control. The switch is a three way with no split positions. It sounds fantastic. I can't wait to play our corporate outing with it in September. Here's the finished project. I'll try to get better pics later.
I got that from the Music Zoo...great service, btw. I then found some chrome pickup rings online and ordered a prewired Fat Strat pickguard from guitarfetish.com. I swapped out the Fender tuners for some locking tuners I had lying around. I then ordered the Mexican Strat upgrade pack from Callaham which included a stainless steel trem block, shortened arm, stainless saddles, and hardened screws. I had a couple single coils lying around as well and picked the one that I felt would sit the best in between the humbuckers. After getting done what I could, I sent the guitar over to Jim Crawford for fretwork, rewiring, and single coil installing. I just got it back today. The bridge and middle are wired to the tone control. The switch is a three way with no split positions. It sounds fantastic. I can't wait to play our corporate outing with it in September. Here's the finished project. I'll try to get better pics later.
