NGD: Fender/Warmoth Partsocaster

[ErikH]

This weekend I was able to put the finishing touches on and give it a good workout. Here's the specs.

- circa 2000 MIM Strat body in Midnight Blue.
- Warmoth Pro neck w/ boatneck contour finished w/ wipe-on poly satin.
- Schaller tuners
- Tusq nut
- GFS bridge w/ steel block
- Seymour Duncan Classic Stack Plus (neck and middle)
- Lil' Screamin' Demon (bridge)
- Volume (500k), push/pull Tone (250k, .022uf cap, wired 50's style), neck blend pot (lower tone pot), standard 5-way blade switch.
- Push/pull splits all three.

The body was purchased off eBay and came with the pickguard, jack and jack cup, and the back plate. It was perfect because I needed those items anyway. The neck I found in Warmoth's Showcase. The only other thing I needed to get was the bridge. Everything else I had in a parts box.

I ran it through the paces pretty heavily yesterday through my Marshall. It just sings. A nice and full sound, good sustain and resonance too. On the scale it comes in at a nice and healthy 8 pounds. A little heavier than my first frankenstrat.

 

[bluesbend]

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Looks great!

 

[Andrew Lamprecht]

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Nice work man, I like it alot!

 

[ErikH]

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Thanks. I've been wanting to put another Strat together like this for a while with the same neck specs as my #1. Glad I was finally able to.

 

[Powdered Toast Man]

That looks pretty good! Love the maple fretboard.

 

[CTN]

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hotness!

 

[LonePhantom]

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Very nice! I'm looking to do this soon too.

 

[TheLivingDead]

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I likey!

 

[MetalManiac]

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Thats a well executed assembly. Curious..do you have a Strat w/ vintage style pickups, or are you strictly a high output guitar guy? I'd like to see Yngwie Malmsteen Duncan pickups in that personally.
The 'Lectric Blue/Maple combination is porno-effin'-graphic!!

 

[ErikH]

Thanks yas. It was fun putting all together.

Thats a well executed assembly. Curious..do you have a Strat w/ vintage style pickups, or are you strictly a high output guitar guy? I'd like to see Yngwie Malmsteen Duncan pickups in that personally.
The 'Lectric Blue/Maple combination is porno-effin'-graphic!!

No, no traditional Strat setup. I like humbuckers in the bridge. The Demon is far from high output, more medium output. The Classic Stack Pluses aren't high output either. I have Slash neck in my #1 and that's not high output either.

Hot-rodded, yes. High output, not necessarily.

But, I do have a couple loaded with JB's and Floyds.

(psst, it's midnight blue)

 

[rjudo]

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Sweet, that is a great lookin' strat!

 

[tonello]

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I've been thinking of doing a partscaster with two Custom P90's and a Distortion bridge. If I ever start on it, then I'll start posting updates daily.

 

[Chickenwings]

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you going to get a warmoth body at some stage?

 

[Lazarus1140]

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That looks killer, Erik! How do you like the Stacks?

 

[ErikH]

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Sweet, that is a great lookin' strat!

Thanks.

I've been thinking of doing a partscaster with two Custom P90's and a Distortion bridge. If I ever start on it, then I'll start posting updates daily.

That would be a cool setup.

you going to get a warmoth body at some stage?

Nope. Staying with this body. After playing it for a little more than an hour tonight, plus the couple hours yesterday, all of the parts just work together.

That looks killer, Erik! How do you like the Stacks?

I love 'em actually. I'm not a single-coil guy really, but these just work in this guitar. I've had them for a couple years. They were installed in a MIA Strat I had for a while, then I moved them to my Frankenstrat for a while with the full-size Demon, then I decided that it needed to be dual humbuckers because it sounded best and worked best for me that way and so they sat. This guitar though, the goal was to utilize them and I gotta say, I'm more pleased with them now than I've been before. They work great with the Lil' Screamin' Demon (which really sounds good, just like it's big brother).

 

[dano8180]

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How do you like the Boatneck contour? I've got the Clapton profile on my Warmoth Strat, but have been curious about the Boatneck.

 

[ErikH]

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How do you like the Boatneck contour? I've got the Clapton profile on my Warmoth Strat, but have been curious about the Boatneck.

I love it. It's my favorite profile. My original frankenstrat that I slapped together almost 20 years ago has the same profile. Super comfortable if you have big hands.

 

[bluesbend]

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Here's one of my Partsocasters that I built about 10 years ago.
They could be brothers.




View attachment 31939

 

[ErikH]

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That's gorgeous, bluesbend. Is that a metal flake finish?
Yeah, they could be brothers...LOL.

 

[bluesbend]

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Yeah, cobalt blue metalic.