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[VMS]

Hi guys.


I put this together yesterday and I think I made some kind of record for different brands used.


Tokai body, Kramer neck, ESP bridge, Warmoth pickguard, Seymour Duncan Jazz humbucker and Fender single-coil pickup. CTS pots and Oak Grigsby switch.


Plays great.

[super&plexi]

 hey what am I doing wrong I wanted to throw my pictures into the mix but I keep getting a low memory note ..that mean the site or my stupid camera this is really  the lowest dig. Camera I could come up with its like 6:40 by 7:20 or whatever that lowest setting is. And I only tried to load one picture but it sure pissed me off when it took all my writing away.. always do that like an idiot I write in depth descriptions and then try to add pictures and it erases whole thing with the unable to complete previous operation due to low memory I'm going to try and come in with a post after this with just two pictures or one picture and no writing see what that does.  using my good phone with the huge 20 Mill resolution or whatever the hell it is... I'm going to reread the warning or heads-up posts that are at the top then I'll slap an 8 gig memory chip in this cheesy phone and see if that helps man we're flying almost the same thing axewise! Although my paint job is a quite possibly acquired taste. LT jr.

[super&plexi]

Okay let me try this again... Tokai body Warmoth reverse bird's-eye maple  licensed fender decals for that complete forged look mini Grover's with the Locking nut still on but not used or tighten down. all electronics are new CTS pots except for the rear with the Vox knob on it. 500k Push Pull that brings in the front pick up so you can have all three or front and back. The little switch does phasing with three positions one of them is that thin  Jimi Hendrix scream type of position... pickups are I think a little 59 in the back either my favorites old Seymour staggered or a Jackson J 200 that I really like also in the middle and a plain old Fender Telecaster in the front which is just started giving me problems but I think it's just a simple wiring issue...   three brass boat screws hold on the neck along with one zinc wood screw and I think vintage fender bridge and saddles the stamped fender wraparound 50 Style with the heavy sustain Block Round out the luxury appointments on the strat....    the Telly is newer.    mahogany piece  of wood my buddy gave me.     Carvin neck that was blank and I cut the headstock into and and spaced the Machine Head positions which was really a pain in the tail.    I did the neck a long time ago and just married it to that body pickups are two hot Seymour Fender jazz master pick-ups... the rear is like 14 or 16K... with really oversized slugs that actually protrude about a quarter inch or more below the pickup I think the pickup might actually be called a quarter pounder or something I don't know but I really like it both of them actually the rear can get pretty raucous but totally cleans up when you turn it down as does the front also I've had some 1600 humbuckers that just wouldn't clean up they always had that really heavy mid-range but both of these pickups have a strong mid-range when crank and then went back off just more bass and highs and pretty sweet I'd be willing to bet they were both alnico magnet.  I'm just running volume and tone on the Telly right now but if you can see the holes I plan on going volume volume tone tone because I've gotten used to mixing them like on my 335 style Epi's. I think I like that Les Paul style pickup switch also more than the Strat style and position except I like the out of phase on the Strat... would be coolest if they just put the five position up where the Les Paul one usually goes.    usually Jim Dunlop or Shaler strap locks go on them but they just happened to be off  because I've been farting around with different straps  going to different guitars.  maybe it'd be better if I waited until people ask me questions instead of filling in every gold dang thing... heck I don't know if anybody cares at all about these maybe you just wanted to see a oouple pictures!...  I'll bet this thread will take off because I also would bet that quite a few of us have some tele-$+rats,  stRAT'aDoozies....AsRATs???      LT jr.

[VMS]

I have 5-way super switch in mine so positions are:


1. full humbucker   2. split humbucker  3. humbucker and neck pickup in parallel  4. neck pickup
5. humbucker and neck pickup in series


So highest output positions are 1 and 5 and the mellower sounds are in the middle positions 2,3 and 4.




Do you have picture from front of that strat?

[super&plexi]

 man I am not lying the camera on this Obama phone is just the crappiest ever I'll try doing this over with my good phone maybe it was just a memories thing and not.....

[super&plexi]

 yeah I've got one or two of those super switches in some of my parts bins I've been meaning to get into them it seems best for HSS or probably HSH would be the best setup for those you could probably get full humbucking & full single coil all the way around, maybe even a little more they seem very cool.  Mine plays really nice also the neck is really sweet and the body's really light

[VMS]

That body looks cool, me likey.


This is my other HS strat that i have had for years. Super light alder body with hardtail bridge.

[BetterOffShred]

Super&plexi - your bits-o-Caster is awesome.  I love the neck, and the "finish" is pretty choice too!   
-Brett

[super&plexi]

Yeah, been selling off a bunch of my guitars...PRS McCarty, MIJ yellowish big headstock strat, 82? 84?, ..Blue Warmouth. But ended up parting out Warmouth, because I didn t want to get rid of that neck! The note that came with it , described it as Mike Morin built? Have no idea who that is, but neck is definitely hand finished. Rolled edges, high wide frets finished nicely, finish removed and tung oiled. Really feels great, and sounds way better on my wild painted body...better than its Warmouth body. That had tons of blue metalflake paint, & clear. Looked cool, but killed the 'ring' & its ability to breath. And that paint weighs a lot too.


Crazy strat originally had old Jackson, or Performance Guitar Hollywood neck, small head, but brought it to Utah from beach city's CA. ....it backbowed so bad, its unuseable.

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