New Guitar - Semi-Hollow Strat

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treyhaislip

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This project has been in the works for a while and I just picked her up today! '62 Style Semi-Hollow Strat, Maple neck with Rosewood fretboard and stainless steel jumbo frets, African Mahogany body with a Washington Sitka Spruce top, vintage Gotoh hardware, Seymour Duncan Alnico II APS1 pickups.

This guitar has amazing sustain and responds so well to the touch--from gentle and quiet with a light touch to loud and proud with heavy picking/strumming. Overall, I am quite pleased with how she turned out. :)

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Thanks! It was an interesting combo--I've never really cared for semi-hollows...I wonder why it took me so long to discover how awesome they are!
 
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WOW!!! that looks GREAT!!! You should be proud of that. Love the color combinations. Is that a Wenge pic guard? He did just what I am going to do with the neck on my build, gloss finish buffed on the Peghead and Heal with an oil and wax finish on the shaft. You get the nice buffed gloss on the ends that looks great, and helps the neck to be more stable by sealing the end grain, with the buttery smooth oil and wax finish were your hand is. I also like that it dosn't have a spring cover.
 
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J E C said:
WOW!!! that looks GREAT!!! You should be proud of that. Love the color combinations. Is that a Wenge pic guard? He did just what I am going to do with the neck on my build, gloss finish buffed on the Peghead and Heal with an oil and wax finish on the shaft. You get the nice buffed gloss on the ends that looks great, and helps the neck to be more stable by sealing the end grain, with the buttery smooth oil and wax finish were your hand is. I also like that it dosn't have a spring cover.
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Thanks! I am very pleased with her! I absolutely love the looks, but I love the tone and the way she plays even more!

Yup, its a Wenge pic guard--I thought it would be a good bridge between the light color of the Spruce top and the darker colors of black hardware and Rosewood fretboard.

Personally, thats best way to do a neck! Are you building a new guitar or just doing that on one of yours you already have?

Haha! The luthier actually forgot to put the spring cover on the guitar--its black...but now its kinda grown on me to not have it on. lol
 
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Oh that is nice!! That's my kind of guitar. I'm glad that after all these years I can still see something new and exciting.
 
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treyhaislip said:
Yup, I had it built by a local guitar builder named Frank Verrilli (body was built by a Richard Saylor out in the North West.)
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Saylor makes some really cool stuff, I'm tempted to get something made but I think I'd rather wait and do it myself once I get the skills.

Is the neck totally raw? Looks like it in the pictures, finished head and raw neck back.
 
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Thanks! The Mahogany-Spruce combo is killer for tone! It sounds great unplugged–I'm debating installing a piezo pickup...not sure yet.

I'm glad you can see something new and exciting too!

My luthier was really impressed with Saylor's craftmanship. I recommend him to anyone who needs something built!

The neck actually isn't, I can try to take a picture this evening–it has a little bit of finish near the heel. I am going to try and take it down all the way to the heel. The finish on the headstock is nitro, the rest of the guitar is an oil rub finish.
 
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quick question I am not sure if I just read this wrong, but did you do this yourself? or buy it from warmoth or what? anyway looks super cool
 
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