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Handmade ultra-Strat husk
This started as a mahogany bodied Strat I was building back in 1988. One of my part-timers wanted to complete it, so I let him take over - and he went crazy carving and routing it into something completely new and unique. The neck started as a Performance Guitar Strat neck - maple and rosewood, with the old Gibson wide-flat style fretwire (still in good shape). It was glued into the mahogany body with Titebond at a 4 degree angle. It's still holding, but you can see the witness lines in the finish where he carved all the bevels. The truss rod adjustment at the heel is a Kahler piece.
As you can see from the pix, it's been carved to an extreme point - leaving a very light combination. He routed it for a Duncan HSS set and a Gibson style Kahler whammy. The controls are a 3 way switch, a tap switch, and a volume knob. The jack was from an Ibanez - with the little "anus" on the side. He filled the grain and sealed the whole guitar with CA glue, and then primed it with gray automotive primer and used Krylon acrylic poly for the finish. It was assembled in 1989, and he gigged with it around Kansas for a couple years. Sometime in the early 2000's, he pulled all the hardware and used it on some of his other guitars, and it languished until last year when he traded it to me for some fret work.
I am already buried in projects, and this one could be revived with a minimum of work - simply putting hardware back on it and stringing it up. Or you could strip it and refinish it. The neck is not under tension and is basically straight right now. Look interesting? I'm thinking $250, plus actual shipping (around $70, maybe?) to the lower 48 states. Pix to follow in other posts. I have about 30, but I won't post them all.
As you can see from the pix, it's been carved to an extreme point - leaving a very light combination. He routed it for a Duncan HSS set and a Gibson style Kahler whammy. The controls are a 3 way switch, a tap switch, and a volume knob. The jack was from an Ibanez - with the little "anus" on the side. He filled the grain and sealed the whole guitar with CA glue, and then primed it with gray automotive primer and used Krylon acrylic poly for the finish. It was assembled in 1989, and he gigged with it around Kansas for a couple years. Sometime in the early 2000's, he pulled all the hardware and used it on some of his other guitars, and it languished until last year when he traded it to me for some fret work.
I am already buried in projects, and this one could be revived with a minimum of work - simply putting hardware back on it and stringing it up. Or you could strip it and refinish it. The neck is not under tension and is basically straight right now. Look interesting? I'm thinking $250, plus actual shipping (around $70, maybe?) to the lower 48 states. Pix to follow in other posts. I have about 30, but I won't post them all.
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