Paulnb57 Q1’20 Challenge - Today mostly I have been assembling a StraTele!....

TTony

The gold goes well with the rosewood - and you already know how good the tuners are!

Andyjr1515

Best tuners on the market IMHO 

paulnb57

TTony said:

The gold goes well with the rosewood - and you already know how good the tuners are!

Yep!

Andyjr1515 said:

Best tuners on the market IMHO 

Agreed, shame no one over here stocks them, they are frighteningly expensive from Stew Mac....if I could I would use them on everything....
Theres a fella on TDPRI using them at the body end in a headless design...genius!!

paulnb57

The two Strat bodies arrived from @lamf68 having been Nitro finished, as soon as I had time I cracked on, here is the result.....
The White blonde one
Guitarbuild One piece select Swamp Ash Strat body routed for Tele neck
Solid Rosewood neck from The Stratosphere, fat C profile, decent size frets..a nice handful
Steinberger gearless tuners imported from the USA via StewMac
All gold hardware
Vintage style single ply Scratchplate
Fender Vintage 65 pickups
CTS pots/decent 5way switch, second tone on the bridge pickup
Schaller straplocks

DrBob

paulnb57 said:

The two Strat bodies arrived from @lamf68 having been Nitro finished, as soon as I had time I cracked on, here is the result.....
The White blonde one
Guitarbuild One piece select Swamp Ash Strat body routed for Tele neck
Solid Rosewood neck from The Stratosphere, fat C profile, decent size frets..a nice handful
Steinberger gearless tuners imported from the USA via StewMac
All gold hardware
Vintage style single ply Scratchplate
Fender Vintage 65 pickups
CTS pots/decent 5way switch, second tone on the bridge pickup
Schaller straplocks

Looks stunning ! Ooh need to message you back !