TL;DR - Gas is alive and kicking - I've been stupendously pining over this Dale Wilson Masterbuilt Strat. It's got some wizardry going on with regards to its circuitry as well as a slightly unconventional SSH configuration featuring a de-lidded Seymour Duncan wide range humbucker. Combined with a push volume pot as you'd find on a Deluxe Stratocaster (I think?) as well as a a push-push pot in the first tone pot position, it's seems like a wicked combination to create some tonal variety. Short question: would you buy or build? Longer question: anyone got a wiring diagram for this particular setup?
The guitar in question - it's for sale in Tokyo at G-Club
here. I'm traveling there later this month for business, so gassage is –naturally– at an all time high:
So Dale Wilson did some limited run Master Built series for what looks like a couple of dealerships - there's a couple of builds that follow the same kind of setup on his Instagram (
here,
here, and
here). He did a (fairly incomprehensible) little video about it here as well:
Needless to say, I've convinced myself that this is by far the best thing since sliced bread, and that my life is not complete without it. Short of being single-handedly responsible for world peace, purchasing this would undoubtedly contribute to the betterment of all humankind*.
In parallel, I've been toying with the idea of building a guitar of my own, and this seems like a cool, and ever so slightly different project from your bog-standard partscaster, whilst still (famous last words) being fairly straight forward. Get an SSH-routed body, de-lid a Seymour Duncan wide range humbucker, burn some fingers on what would most likely be some MIT-alumni level soldering, and Bob could be your proverbial uncle.
Anyway - thoughts? Tips? Am I being an idiot and should just forego the whole thing? Your two cents are incredibly welcome - other currencies accepted.
* Results proposed are purely indicative and detailed KPI's are to be discussed moving forwards. No legal claims can be made to this illustrative example.
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Jog on!!
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I’m glad you’ve responded @lonestar - big fan of your work! Would you mind me pinging you a message for a quote on some of the work required if I would go the build route?
Do you (or anyone else for that matter) have any thoughts on the complexity of the wiring/electronics in this? I found another video last night on the details of this particular series, which I’ll dig up in a tad.
Because that's a hilarious amount of money for a new strat.
@JEPBLEP thank you for the kind words, please feel free to message whenever you want chap
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I mean 8k is a car, a massive chunk off the mortgage, a truly phenomenal holiday, a shit load of blow and hookers, whatever you can think of really.
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