Hmmnn ........ how can I make a strat more ugly?

axisus

I know, Change the headstock, raise the pickguard up and give it a weird angle compared to the body, and do the most frikking ugly neck join and back plate combo that the world has ever seen. I'm sure everyone will want this ....

JD50

Is it a Suhr?

axisus

JD50 said:

Is it a Suhr?

Cp Thornton guitars apparently

crunchman

For a Gibson user wanting a Strat the back angled neck  and 3 a side tuners might be more familiar.  As a result of the back angle, raising the pickguard is probably a necessity.

Not for me, but I can see where it's coming from.

DulcetJones

Other than a bad relicing job I don't know where you would go from here.

axisus

crunchman said:

For a Gibson user wanting a Strat the back angled neck  and 3 a side tuners might be more familiar.  As a result of the back angle, raising the pickguard is probably a necessity.

Not for me, but I can see where it's coming from.

For me it's not seeing the wood for the trees. In creating something that is probably technically 'better', you have thrown aesthetics out of the window. Like creating the idea woman by stitching together the parts of 6 different ones, Frankenstein style.

grungebob

Your all being short sighted this guitar is a giggin guitarist dream, you get a free bottle opener right there on the back. 

richardhomer

It’s funny how messing with a classic guitar offends the eye.

The PRS Singlecut is a much uglier guitar than a Les Paul, in spite of the obviousness of its inspiration. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a modified version of a Strat which has the visual appeal of the original.

Whether this is because the originals are so inherently ‘right’ - or we’re simply so used to them that everything looks ‘wrong’ - I don’t know.

earwighoney

axisus said:

JD50 said:

Is it a Suhr?

Cp Thornton guitars apparently

Here's one of his more traditional looking Strats 

axisus

Uggh! terrible headstock! I couldn't live with that.

NelsonP

crunchman said:

For a Gibson user wanting a Strat....

...there is, apparently, the Gibson Nighthawk

earwighoney

axisus said:

Uggh! terrible headstock! I couldn't live with that.

It's still better than a Suhr. 

Sassafras

It probably wouldn't look so weird if it had a natural wood finish body.

Sesh

Actually, I think the only problem is that it has the strat body shape. I like that fact that attempts to be different. It deserves a more unique body shape to match the innovation. 

danishbacon

I love it

steer

The back is fugly, but the headstock doesn't bother me.

If you buy a genuine fender or squire strat, you want a genuine fender strat design headstock. If you buy any of the 1000's of non-fenders out there, then surely you cant complain that they have not followed the traditional fender design? 

merlin

richardhomer said:

It’s funny how messing with a classic guitar offends the eye.

The PRS Singlecut is a much uglier guitar than a Les Paul, in spite of the obviousness of its inspiration. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a modified version of a Strat which has the visual appeal of the original.

Whether this is because the originals are so inherently ‘right’ - or we’re simply so used to them that everything looks ‘wrong’ - I don’t know.

I'd say that we get used to certain designs and become hard-and-fast luddites. If we'd never seen a Les Paul then more people would probably like the PRS single cut. I really like them by the way...

richardhomer

merlin said:
I'd say that we get used to certain designs and become hard-and-fast luddites. If we'd never seen a Les Paul then more people would probably like the PRS single cut. I really like them by the way...

That’s pretty much the point I was making - and I agree - the Singlecut is a great guitar.

crunchman

richardhomer said:

merlin said:
I'd say that we get used to certain designs and become hard-and-fast luddites. If we'd never seen a Les Paul then more people would probably like the PRS single cut. I really like them by the way...

That’s pretty much the point I was making - and I agree - the Singlecut is a great guitar.

I like the looks of the Singlecut.

It's funny because I like the Singlecut with no scratchplate but think a Les Paul without a Scratchplate looks wrong.  We do get used to certain things, and think they look "right"

adamm82

The thing on the back looks like a bottle opener.

ICBM

axisus said:

I know, Change the headstock, raise the pickguard up and give it a weird angle compared to the body, and do the most frikking ugly neck join and back plate combo that the world has ever seen. I'm sure everyone will want this ....

All that apparent innovation, and yet it still has the same three generic single coil pickups with the bridge one slanted, the same basic pickguard shape and with the same controls as a Strat. Anyone would think it was still the early 90s...