Thursday, April 30, 2009

New guitar project redux

So the Telestar project is on the back burner (yet again). I think maybe I'm subconsciously afraid of messing up on that one or something. Anyway...

Last week I dropped the hammer on a replacement Strat body in Surf Green from eBay. It's going to be a projet long-terme, as I'm going to gather parts here and there when I have a few bucks. There's no rush. Here's what I'm planning:

Surf Green body (check); mint green pickguard, prewired with Golden Age pickups (from StewMac); one-piece maple neck; standard Strat trem bridge (with tremsetter); maybe some of those Steinberger keyless tuners (if not,seeing as how these don't really fit with the vintage aesthetic, probably locking tuners).

I'm planning this to be my vintage-style, purely rock n' roll guitar. No high-gain tones expected from this one, just surfy, spanky Stratoriffic sounds.

I will post pics of the body when it arrives.

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