Restrung this tonight for my Son with EB .009's and did a complete setup.
This is the original Von Herndon prototype - Serial Number VHO-0001 with body and neck by B. Hefner.
I leveled the bridge for the lighter strings he wanted, set bass side action @ 12th fret to .060" and treble side to .040" respectively. Adjusted pickups to 4/32" and added the gold plated brass trim rings.
I raised the pots up all the way so I could get the volume knob to clear the bridge trim ring.
Guitar intonated very easily and intonation checks out across the fretboard.
This 100% mahogany guitar is super lightweight. The neck is one piece construction, 1950's 'U' profile, 12" radius and 24.75" scale length.
The Floyd is a licensed copy (Gotoh I think) with a steel block.
I cut the pickguard myself from a single ply blank and countersunk 9 holes in it. The pickup spacing/routing is different than a regular Stratocaster - the pickups were squeezed together for the change in bridge position.
The idea was to step up to a better, commercially made pickguard later, but he likes the black on black look.
Originally, this guitar was fitted with a Tone Man harness and 12 pole adjustable Von Herndon Supre-Sonic humbuckers measuring 17k.
Several different sets of pickups were eventually used in it.
I pulled the Tone Man harness for use in another project and fitted this guitar with discontinued GFS "Double Slugs" (circa 2007) and both have 50mm neck spacing. The pickups measure 15.0k.
This guitar uses Alpha metric pots and a .022uf K40Y PIO tone capacitor. At 4/32" pickup height, the tone is incredibly well balanced.
Not a bad guitar for free...
This is the original Von Herndon prototype - Serial Number VHO-0001 with body and neck by B. Hefner.
I leveled the bridge for the lighter strings he wanted, set bass side action @ 12th fret to .060" and treble side to .040" respectively. Adjusted pickups to 4/32" and added the gold plated brass trim rings.
I raised the pots up all the way so I could get the volume knob to clear the bridge trim ring.
Guitar intonated very easily and intonation checks out across the fretboard.
This 100% mahogany guitar is super lightweight. The neck is one piece construction, 1950's 'U' profile, 12" radius and 24.75" scale length.
The Floyd is a licensed copy (Gotoh I think) with a steel block.
I cut the pickguard myself from a single ply blank and countersunk 9 holes in it. The pickup spacing/routing is different than a regular Stratocaster - the pickups were squeezed together for the change in bridge position.
The idea was to step up to a better, commercially made pickguard later, but he likes the black on black look.
Originally, this guitar was fitted with a Tone Man harness and 12 pole adjustable Von Herndon Supre-Sonic humbuckers measuring 17k.
Several different sets of pickups were eventually used in it.
I pulled the Tone Man harness for use in another project and fitted this guitar with discontinued GFS "Double Slugs" (circa 2007) and both have 50mm neck spacing. The pickups measure 15.0k.
This guitar uses Alpha metric pots and a .022uf K40Y PIO tone capacitor. At 4/32" pickup height, the tone is incredibly well balanced.
Not a bad guitar for free...
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