Olympic white strat.....

ESchap

My homage to a '63.  Rosewood and mint for me

Hootsmon

Gassage said:

Point of order: although rosewood is the win, the maple variant has to be a maple cap, not solid maple, or epic failure.

are the solid maple jobs looked down upon? 

Neil

Jimi says,

"Olympic white with maple is the way to go!"

Hootsmon

reading between the lines it would appear the Gass fellow is saying that there is a full on maple neck and one with a maple cap.....new tae me....

57Deluxe

Rosewood deffo...

http://i61.tinypic.com/25p5ogx.jpg

Neil

hootsmon said:

reading between the lines it would appear the Gass fellow is saying that there is a full on maple neck and one with a maple cap.....new tae me....

Maple cap type necks were made around 1968-70.

As the neck was two piece the truss rod was dropped in through the top so no skunk stripe needed.

As usual Jimi has the answer.

normula1

small headstocked maple neck to me needs a contrasting scratchplate. Mine looked way too anaemic with my normal favourite parchment  guard.

JookyChap

The right answer is clearly rosewood on a white Jazzmaster. Everybody knows that...

mark123

richardhomer said:

One of the few Fender colours where 'either' is the correct answer - though obviously there are caveats.

Rosewood - small headstock/mint green three-ply scratch plate.

Maple - Big CBS headstock/three-ply w/b/w plastic scratch plate.

End of thread as this is the answer !

p90fool

I built mine to replicate my old '63, which I bought when it was 18 years old so it had none of this silly, perfectly uniform green stuff on it - it was a white guitar with white plastics and a lovely dark rosewood board, just as it left the factory.

The scratchplates DID get a weird, translucent green tinge in time, but nothing at all like the green/black/green reissues.

There are so many relic wannabes out their I actually wanted mine to look like a proudly owned cheesy surf band guitar.

http://i68.tinypic.com/2i89p35.jpg

TTBZ

I actually prefer maple I think so long as it's not too thickly finished.