Archer_of_Fish
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Not really builds per se'...assembling and re-assembling is probably more accurate.
I took my older red strat and changed the maple finger boarded neck out to one with a rosewood fingerboard then changed out the bridge pickup (which was a DiMarzio AT1) to a DiMarzio 36th anniversary while leaving the 2 Injectors in place. This week I changed out all the pots to DiMarzio 500K units and added a Switchcraft selector and a Switchcraft output jack. The result is a much better looking, feeling and sounding guitar. The rosewood board really sounds better on this guitar.
I then did some surgery on my black Stratocaster. It got the maple neck from Red as well as upgraded electronics (Switchcraft selector and output jack and YJM Speed Pots) added to the Suhr V60LP pickups. As with the other neck the maple works better on this guitar.
What is interesting here is that the necks are identical in every way except for the tuning machines. Both necks are Warmoth standard thin with a 10-16 compound radius, Stainless Steel 6150 frets and satin nitro finishes with reverse headstocks. The rosewood has a looser bottom end, slightly scooped mids and more high end. The maple has a tighter sounding bottom end but more overall oomph...the tonal spectrum is more evenly distributed.
Both guitars are pretty killer
I took my older red strat and changed the maple finger boarded neck out to one with a rosewood fingerboard then changed out the bridge pickup (which was a DiMarzio AT1) to a DiMarzio 36th anniversary while leaving the 2 Injectors in place. This week I changed out all the pots to DiMarzio 500K units and added a Switchcraft selector and a Switchcraft output jack. The result is a much better looking, feeling and sounding guitar. The rosewood board really sounds better on this guitar.
I then did some surgery on my black Stratocaster. It got the maple neck from Red as well as upgraded electronics (Switchcraft selector and output jack and YJM Speed Pots) added to the Suhr V60LP pickups. As with the other neck the maple works better on this guitar.
What is interesting here is that the necks are identical in every way except for the tuning machines. Both necks are Warmoth standard thin with a 10-16 compound radius, Stainless Steel 6150 frets and satin nitro finishes with reverse headstocks. The rosewood has a looser bottom end, slightly scooped mids and more high end. The maple has a tighter sounding bottom end but more overall oomph...the tonal spectrum is more evenly distributed.
Both guitars are pretty killer
