We all have our personal guitar hero's, and of course our certain styles/preferences of guitars. One of my hero's (if you look at my sig) is Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins. I've always loved his music, and more importantly, his collection of strats. Specifically, his 70's yellow strat that he recently painted a very nice blue.
When I saw a picture of that guitar, I wanted it. Later on I was disappointed that his signature strats only came in black and white. So now I figure its time to build the best looking strat I've ever seen. Now a real 70's strat would cost me a lot of $$$. And to buy an unfinished body from musikcraft or allparts would result in a lot of work to paint properly, and other tasks I have no experience in. And for whatever reason Fender has not produced that shade of blue (to my knowledge and research) to date. Until I saw this mim highway one body.
It's not the exact same shade of blue, but pretty close, don't you think? The next task was to buy a neck. I love the 70's strat headstocks. I took a look on fender.com and I noticed they were selling the 70's necks. Long story short, I ended up purchasing this neck
Thankfully, this neck comes with tuners and a pretty good nut. And it came off an American special. As far as pickups go, my favorite Pumpkin tones are off the album Siamese Dream. And Billy is somewhat famous for using the BSR Lace Sensors. Luckily enough, a member on this forum was selling the same set of lace sensor pickups. So now all that's left to acquire is the pickguard, other electronics, bridge, and tremelo system pieces. I'm very excited to finish my first strat project!
When I saw a picture of that guitar, I wanted it. Later on I was disappointed that his signature strats only came in black and white. So now I figure its time to build the best looking strat I've ever seen. Now a real 70's strat would cost me a lot of $$$. And to buy an unfinished body from musikcraft or allparts would result in a lot of work to paint properly, and other tasks I have no experience in. And for whatever reason Fender has not produced that shade of blue (to my knowledge and research) to date. Until I saw this mim highway one body.
It's not the exact same shade of blue, but pretty close, don't you think? The next task was to buy a neck. I love the 70's strat headstocks. I took a look on fender.com and I noticed they were selling the 70's necks. Long story short, I ended up purchasing this neck
Thankfully, this neck comes with tuners and a pretty good nut. And it came off an American special. As far as pickups go, my favorite Pumpkin tones are off the album Siamese Dream. And Billy is somewhat famous for using the BSR Lace Sensors. Luckily enough, a member on this forum was selling the same set of lace sensor pickups. So now all that's left to acquire is the pickguard, other electronics, bridge, and tremelo system pieces. I'm very excited to finish my first strat project!
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