After 30 Years, I'm Back To A 1987 Stratocaster:

kevinpaul said:
View attachment 10521 I put P94s from Gibson, maybe. They were in a Gibson box. They being big single coil pups I thought they would be real noisy but they are not effected by anything. I just finished it and my love Tia asked to borrow it. She was overly protective of it and put it in the deep freezer at the place she was playing. Others in the band told her not to but she said it was hot out and the Doctor just painted it. Cool is good for paint. It was frozen stiff when she came home crying and as it warmed up you could hear the hardware fall off the case. She is pretty sharp with guitar repair, so she took it a part and the auto body place repainted it. A three colour sunburst, I was surprised she paid for it. The office lady called me to see if her checks were good? Some wood missing around the pick guard but it plays the same. It sounds good and from now on she hides it in the lettuce crisper.
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That looks really cool and unusual, Kevin!!!
 
Really been nervous lately using my Gibson SG and Von Herndon Double Neck in some of these dives and biker bars. People see a double neck and think big $$$$, regardless of what it cost to produce. Ive seen some looks that would make Mother Teresa uncomfortable.

The Gibson headstock is another concern of mine, and it makes me nervous every time the guitars are in the stand and we are changing bands around.

So, I thought that I really need something more durable, less valuable and economical, yet something that can still give me a good humbucker tone with OOP in the middle position and be built from junk on hand.

The old 1987 Squire is all but gathering dust now and 10 year old Quinten only bangs around on it casually, plus he has a short-scale Ibanez H-H Mikro of his own and a Epiphone amp.

I can't do anything about the scale length or the neck profile, but tge radius is the most critical component for me.

This morning, I pulled the frets and re-contoured the fretboard to a comfortable 12" radius. I picked up some super tiny #6230 fretwire from a buddy and knocked them in, then leveled and crowned it. I've got the frets down to about .036" off the wood.

Ive got some used 500k CTS and Alpha pots, some good used tone capacitors, a new 3 way CRL switch, 60 feet of black and white cloth Gravitt wiring and two Gibson humbuckers.

All I need is an H-H pickguard, so the project will be one of the cheapest ive ever done.

Not sure how this is going to work out...
 
May have to build a H-H strat 24/75" scale for this at some point. Found a place that makes skins for guitars, so i could even design something that fits the 'Wastelander' look and just skin it...
 
Robert Herndon said:
May have to build a H-H strat 24/75" scale for this at some point. Found a place that makes skins for guitars, so i could even design something that fits the 'Wastelander' look and just skin it...
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I have pick guards coming out of my pick guards. I will send you the one from my Fender sunburst and I think you will love it. I'm going to turn it back into a Strat. Tia was playing for fun and work. She just stopped and plays her Wolfgang. Tell me and it will be yours forever.
 
kevinpaul said:
I have pick guards coming out of my pick guards. I will send you the one from my Fender sunburst and I think you will love it. I'm going to turn it back into a Strat. Tia was playing for fun and work. She just stopped and plays her Wolfgang. Tell me and it will be yours forever.
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H-H with rounded pickup openings????
 
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