Feline Guitars in "not Les Paul shaped" guitar shock

FelineGuitars

More roasted maple loveliness in this hardtail S-type with BKP Mothers Milk pickups and a Freeway 10 way switch

hollywoodrox

Great neck joint ,well done

normula1

Very nice indeed

FelineGuitars

Work is in progress of something that I have had in mind for a while 

It has been nicknamed the Surf Strat for a long while 

Here is a peek at the pickup choices courtesy of Ash @OilCityPickups ;
The Hardman tele bridge pickup and two Hardman spec Jaguar pickups 

We have in the past found that a tele pickup in a Strat makes for a fabulous surf rock sound and teamed up with a pair of very obvious "surf guitar" pickups  makes for an interesting mix.

Sonically it is fab ......nice and throaty but with nice high end snap to the sounds. It's actually a great guitar for many kinds of indie, pop and rock.

There is a push/push on the tone control to bring the neck pickup in with the bridge to allow for 7 sound options in total.

There will be two of these in total, but will take a while to get them all painted up - thinking Olympic white for one of them at least

timmypix

Surf Green for one, surely? Looks like great fun!

Jonathangus

timmypix said:

Surf Green for one, surely? Looks like great fun!

Have a wis.  Surf Green and Maui Blue.

FelineGuitars

Oh it seems to do jazzy tones quite well too as we found out when @Grangousier tried one out.

DrBob

This is a very cool alternative take on a Strat

FelineGuitars

We have two of them with identical specs 

Necks are roasted maple with Dunlop 6155 frets 

Tuners are the Gotoh height adjustable post versions 

Nut is Earvana

Neck fixings are threaded brass inserts in the necks held by Steel hex bolts 

Trems are the Fatcat "double whammy" - narrow spaced (52.5mm E-e) with Highwood saddles

Cold rolled steel blocks and CR4 topples with a stainless arm

Bodies are lightish American alder - about 44mm thick

Elecs 
Oil City Hardman tele bridge pickup and two Hardman spec Jaguar pickups 

CRL Switch and CTS250k pots and a push/push on the tone control to bring the neck pickup in with the bridge to allow for 7 sound options in total.