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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
Tags: Dudley guitar tech guitar project guitar tech guitar tech stourbridge Halesowen guitar tech Oil City pickups Partscaster Super Strat project Vega Trem Vegatrem
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A partscaster build for Nik

A partscaster build for Nik

Nik first reached out to me to inquire about some pickups and wiring for a partscaster project he was starting. Cut a long story short, he kindly opted for a loaded pickguard from myself, including the awesome McNelly 'S-Bar' hybrid strat pickup design, wired to a 7-way Strat harness and all mounted to a nice pearloid pickguard w/parchment plastics to soften the colours a little. Whilst we waited for the pickups to be made and arrive, we discussed his project further and he kindly asked me to assemble the whole guitar when everything was ready.
04 January, 2023 by James P Gascoigne
Tags: Dudley guitar setup Dudley guitar shop Dudley guitar tech guitar setup stourbridge guitar setups stourbridge Guitar shops stourbridge Home of Tone Home of tone customer service Home of Tone harness Home of Tone Harnesses Home of Tone pre-wired harness Home of Tone wiring James' Home of Tone Blog James' Home of Tone setups McNelly S-Bar pickups McNelly S-Bars Partscaster Partscaster assembly Partscaster assembly west midlands Partscaster build Partscaster building Signature Series wiring Stourbridge guitar Stourbridge guitar repair stourbridge guitar setup stourbridge guitar setups Stourbridge guitar tech Vega-Trem Vega-Trem install
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