First time partsocaster - Advice needed

Bridgehouse

shaunm said:

Shape I know, a big and chunky thing. Like the old Baja or Beck Strats. 

Radius would be 7.5

fret size. I'd like jumbo frets I'm not sure of the wire size though

Jumbo as in wide and flat or tall and fat?

shaunm

Tall and fat

Bridgehouse

6105 big, or 6100 obscene?

shaunm

6105, I'd have thought that would be plenty

Bridgehouse

shaunm said:

6105, I'd have thought that would be plenty

Yes, I would reckon so

Van_Hayden

Get some Jescar or even Stewmac wire, better than Dunlop these days. 

Big frets on a 7.5 board is unusual, are you sure?? Come and try my strat, 9.5 & 7105 frets. 

Pickups are easy!

GoldenEraGuitars

Vintage cream HSS strat? I'm just finishing this one up @shaunm . It'll be going off to its new owner shortly 

https://imgur.com/gallery/Qjldz

shaunm

Yes, that's the kind of look I like. Add a rosewood board, covered Hb and it would be right into my line of thinking.

gwEm

My biggest advice for building a partcaster would be to take it slowly - especially when fitting the bridge. Measure it out a few times. Fit the pickguard last.

GoldenEraGuitars

shaunm said:

Yes, that's the kind of look I like. Add a rosewood board, covered Hb and it would be right into my line of thinking.

Yip, sounds good man. Shoot me a pm if you need help or any work done

paulnb57

While I have a three Guitars from GSPBASSES, and very nice they are too, for a first attempt I would suggest something from Guitarbuild.co.uk, they have very reasonable to very expensive, good quality bodies on offer, I have three of those too, they are compatible with Fender and Fender pattern parts.....you could get a perfectly usable body for a bout £80 and an Allparts neck for about £120 by shopping around, then choose your hardware amd finish. Assembling a partscaster is not difficult amd there is info here and on You Tube etc.....