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Title: One of my hand build strats
Post by: catnine on July 08, 2009, 10:09:08 pm

 This is not a kit of parts but hand made by me in 1990 out of alder for the body and a flame maple neck and Brazilian rosewood finder board . Jumbo frets as tall and wide as I could get . used ibanes PU's , goto strat tuners and a goto left handed vibrato. It started out as sun burst then I used a razor bland to scrape it off and air brushed it white . I made another sunburst strat in 1991 out of light weight ash also left handed vib and both plus my 1994 strat made out of hondurous mahogany with a water based clear . that one is a right hand fender vib and fender keys and trem and texas special PU's  the sunburst one has Ducan 57 strat copy PU's and goto keys and a used pick guard . all have an 1 3/4" wide neck at the nut to fit my far too large handes . The only power tools used were a router to cut out the body cavities and neck slot and the 1/2 round over body edge and a hand held jigsaw to cut out the rough body and neck shape and a table top drill press for the tuners and the truing up of the body edge the rest I did with hand planes , spoke shaves and files and sandpaper . I cut the fret slotes with a fret saw .

 This is the white one .
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll112/blues90/newwhtstrat.jpg

 http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll112/blues90/croppedwhtstbody.jpg
 

Title: Re: One of my hand build strats
Post by: pullshocks on July 09, 2009, 01:09:52 am

Looks great, catnine.  I'm in the process of reworking the first one I made back in the '70s.  Like yours, it is scratch built

Title: Re: One of my hand build strats
Post by: tubenit on July 09, 2009, 08:26:04 am

Magnificent job!  Really a beautiful guitar.

With respect, Tubenit

Title: Re: One of my hand build strats
Post by: jjasilli on July 10, 2009, 05:11:42 pm

 :smiley:

Title: Re: One of my hand build strats
Post by: Manic on July 10, 2009, 09:56:52 pm

Im just blown away when guys can make a guitar from sratch.  :icon_salut:

Awesome!

Title: Re: One of my hand build strats
Post by: Cork on July 11, 2009, 09:49:51 pm

Nice Job Catnine.
Here are some photos of one of my scratch builds.

Title: Re: One of my hand build strats
Post by: Cork on July 11, 2009, 09:57:27 pm

Thanks for the photobucket idea.
I need to resize photos to post or I exceed KB's and the quality stinks.

Title: Re: One of my hand build strats
Post by: catnine on July 12, 2009, 10:10:07 pm

Quote from: Cork on July 11, 2009, 09:57:27 pm

Thanks for the photobucket idea.
I need to resize photos to post or I exceed KB's and the quality stinks.

 On my computer I can't seem to open these files but from what I can see it looks real nice.

 I started in 1984 with one one my own designes then got all involved in the turner #1 Buckingham used , I made one  from no real su=ize then made a few like it then finally we had the internet and I got a print then calculated the body size based on the scale length and built one . I made abot 12 guitar , the last was a strat that I had alread mde the body years ago and then chaned it to a right hand trem and used just a tone and vol and the neck PU like SVR had ended up selling that all all the others including a Lennon Rick copy traced the body at a guitar shop . I had the three strats and my very first guitar and an odd build that is solid mahog with one cutaway and a large body like a dreadnaught I have it sitting here with a flat fretboard like a classical guitar and small frets and I made an acoustic style bridge then got the bright idea of adding a bigsby  a knock off bigsby and a strat bridge set in a cutout in the original acoustic bridge and it is now crap . So someday I will pull the frets and radious the board add jumbo frets and take the bigsby off because it never worked right and fit a brass bridge I have and a gibson bar tailpiece . Someday , maybe .