Of course I would never do this to a real '54 Strat!įender Stratocaster, with black body, pickups, and pickguard along with a rosewood fretboard And the relic'd aged look - front and back - is a thing of beauty. Great pickups and like all the other pine guitars, it sounds amazing just strumming it on the couch. The Floyd has held! We'll see how it does with time, but so far, so good. The moment of truth came and this pine axe passed all the tests.
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And to complete the Floyd, I added a black EVH D-tuna, a brass Big Block, and I swapped out the stock Special saddles (zinc) for a Korean-made 1000 series set (steel). Stratocasters first were introduced to the world in 1954, so I purchased a 1954 quarter to place under the antique silver Floyd Rose Special. Since I wanted this to resemble an old '54 Strat that had been upgraded (like the owner added a Floyd and a humbucker in the 80s), I used only slotted screws for that vintage look. The single coils came in a pre-wired SSS Strat pickguard and I just had to remove the bridge SC, wire in the DH-1, and swap pickguards (I had a white SSH WD pickguard handy). It looked good and seemed ok, but this wasn't an ash body so I wouldn't know for sure until I strung it up, played it for a while, and let time have its way with it.įor the electronics, I went with a pair of Fender 50s Reissue single-coils (middle reverse wound) and a black DH-1/Atomic for the bridge. I also counter-sunk it into the body face, so it's flush (some fine chiseling work there, I must say). So I carefully (and I do mean carefully as in measuring 2x and drilling once) installed the thing, hoping that there was enough wood in front of it to hold the tension. I thought my best gamble would be to go with a Floyd post/bushing mounting bar as I had seen on some Ibanez guitars, although I replaced the stock hex screws with slotted screws. And pine isn't exactly known for its durability. The question that was always in my mind was could the pine wood withstand the force/tension of the two Floyd pivot post/bushings? If you've been around Floyds and guitars long enough, you've most likely seen more than a couple of blown-out Floyd bridges where string and use tension cracks the wood in front of the pivot screw/post toward the neck. One of them was "antique silver" and I remember thinking that it would look really cool on a relic'd guitar - so that's the Floyd I went with. When Floyd Rose starting making the affordable Floyd Rose Special tremolo in 2008, the company added a few new "color" options in addition to the standard chrome, black, and gold.
Also relic'd some Schaller strap buttons and a Fender neck plate. I just painted it black and aged the crap out of it. But it took a while to track down the pine Strat body, but I eventually found one on eBay (Spalt King Guitars) in December 2013 and I was ready to go. I just aged it and added the Fender Stratocaster waterslide and a set of nickel Wilkinson Deluxe vintage tuners.
It was easy to get the Mighty Mite maple neck, which already came routed with the Floyd nut shelf. Well why couldn't I basically do this Strat - but in pine? And a similar one with a maple fretboard: 1 2 3. It has long been said that pine is addictive wood (?), and while I was in the middle of creating pine after pine aged Teles, I stumbled on a killer relic'd Fender Stratocaster with a Floyd. My first guitar (21 years ago) was a Yamaha S-Style and, since then, I've never played a S-Style guitar let alone a Fender name guitar.With all those crazy pine Telecasters, it was just a matter of time before I went off and did a pine Stratocaster. I have an email out to them asking this but: Would I need the "Fits Strats! Staggered" kind for a 2004 MIM Strat or will the "regulars" work? I wouldn't mind doing some drilling to fit or if there were screw holes showing on the back of the headstock but if I could find a drop-in set, then all the better.Īnyway, I'm happy to be here - This is my first strat as a I'm just getting back into guitar over the last year and I've also been an LP fan since I was a teen so one of them was my first purchase. I'm going to be putting them on a 2004 MIM Strat and I'm not sure they will fit because GFS also stocks something called "Fits Strats" Staggered Height Gotoh Style ( ). Has anyone used the Gotoh Style Locking Tuners from GFS ( )? I'm not sure if Gotoh "style" means they are a Gotoh knockoff? Or is Gotoh not a name brand itself?Īnyway, if you have used them how do you like them? Is it worth an additional $20 for the Fender Locking Tuners?
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