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Isn't she beautiful?
Anyway, it sounds fucking STUNNING. Holds tuning well, too, I've got 10s on and 4 springs, allows a bit of upwards motion and enough downwards for me, too.
HOWEVER
There is a problem with the sounds. It's got a TON of crackling and popping. It occurs in all positions. It's intermittent, but there 80-90% of the time.
It gets worse if I fiddle with the jack, or apply pressure to the pots.
I can do a video if it'll help with diagnoses, but what do we reckon? Poor solder joint somewhere? Not looking forward to taking it all apart after all that hard work, so I'll probably sort intonation and saddle heights first, then sort the electronics.
It is *the* strat tone underneath though. @theguitarweasel has made a great set of pickups, it's glassy, chimey and genuinely very special. Once the noise is sorted, I think this will be the best sounding guitar I've ever played.
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What is it? )
I wasn't being sarcastic, lol, obviously I could see it was a strat-style guitar but I didn't know exactly what it was (and I couldn't read the headstock in the pic) )