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An awesome Ferrari Yellow Super Strat for Ryan!

An awesome Ferrari Yellow Super Strat for Ryan!

This was a wicked project to be part of. A great Home of Tone supporter, Ryan, mentioned he had a project in mind quite some time ago, making use of an old Mighty Mite maple neck he had for years, along with a HH super strat body he picked up for a good deal from Guitar Build. After some discussion over time, specs were decided on and parts were compiled, body was painted and it was time for me to get stuck into assembly for him.
I won't go into lots of detail of each step of the assembly, as I've covered a lot of the same kinds of things a number of times on the blog via other partscaster builds. But I'll share the photos nonetheless.
Very much an EVH inspired build, featuring some wicked parts, some of which I was lucky enough to supply as well as install, such as numerous Gotoh hardware items, the Vega-Trem bridge, Tesi Switch kill switch button and all of the wiring.
20 January, 2024 by James P Gascoigne
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Building a custom hardtail Strat body

Building a custom hardtail Strat body

I wanted to feature something a little different to the usual content on the blog, so have decided to document my process of making a guitar body. I'll may follow on with more like this if it's of interest! Within this article I'll be making a hardtail Strat body for a project, there are of course some superb pre-made bodies available these days, including custom specs but when you've got a workshop full of tools they need to be put to use don't they! So let's get busy and I suspect as a result the final product will be more meaningful too. I have a few spec ideas that will make this body a little unique, something that has been bouncing around my head for a while so will be nice to bring it to life.
01 February, 2023 by James P Gascoigne
Tags: Dudley guitar setup Dudley guitar tech guitar & bass build router template guitar & Bass build router templates guitar & Bass build templates Guitar Build Guitar Builder guitar project guitar repair stourbridge guitar setup stourbridge guitar setups stourbridge guitar work stourbridge Home of Tone Home of Tone Blog Home of Tone News James' Home of Tone James' Home of Tone Blog Strat build Strat project
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