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String it up and a, the nut is cut too low and b, I’d forgotten I’d reliced the tuners, so they will have to go...
Nut and tuners on order (sods law they are left handers, Ive got shitloads of right handers!)
Knobs should come today.
It needs a good setup, no point until new nut arrives, but, it’s getting there!
Could you put a shim under the nut? Although, for the cost, probably just as easy to put a new one on.
You've got some much nicer tuners than those old things too
I amaze myself at the amount of parts I have (and have forgotten I have!)
Trouble is I now have a 5th unfinished project to add to the list...photo later....
That said, what you do with them looks very good!
I shimmed the nut on my Strat with a strip of plastic cut from an old discount card as a temporary measure. Two years ago. Ahem ...
Then set neck relief, fettled the nut slots, set the intonation and action, plugged the joker in....its quite bright with plenty of Strat clank, I dislike the bridge pickup intensely, so that will have to go, and the neck and middle are nothing to shout about, so next string change will probably see them swapped out....pickup selector switch is a bit imprecise too, so that will go at the same time....
Its an incredibly light piece of Swamp Ash......now I’m waiting for the other two bodies to be painted, then the madness starts again!
My brain is saying "that's all wrong" ... but i still like it!!
What did you dislike (intensely) about the bridge p'up?
I was expecting some fatness - Ill try a Sinner!
I'd have thought that would have been reasonably grunty. I'd thought about trying something like that myself in a past build, so I'm curious!
In the bridge and middle position there is a volume drop and it goes thin and trebly, needs some investigation...
250k pots .022 cap...
In this case its a JB Jr
I have a Lil 59 in a Tele and love it, grunty, fat, middly....
”But it’s a Tele neck!” I hear you exclaim..or not..yep, Tele neck on a Strat body....neck pocket is Tele size
Rosewood neck with a Rosewood board, vintage narrow/tall frets, .960 at the nut and 1.00 at the twelfth...chunky and sublime, I love a Rosewood neck!
Once the decal is done and sealed under Nitro, the rest will get a sealer coat of Tru Oil....
a lot less participative? Really? Based on a lack of anyone organising a challenge?
Looks great @paulnb57
A wise investment for any build, I love the feel, the look, and the "I've done this properly" statement!!
I only vaguely remember what my Warmoth RW neck cost - and that was a few years ago when exchange rates were friendlier - but it turned an otherwise simple Tele self-build into a great guitar which is still one of my favourites.
On the end of a white blonde Strat ... looking forward to seeing this one