MikeS
Bengalsologist
New Project Guitar Body Day!
UPS came today with a new Warmoth swamp ash strat body. Universal route, side output jack, vintage tremolo. Body weighs in at 3lb 5.2oz, a bit lighter than I expected, but I'm not complaining. Many of these specs were based on the idea that I was a body short of a parts guitar due to the number of spare parts I had laying around. The original idea was to get an inexpensive body (something along the lines of a parted out Classic Vibe body). I mocked up this paint scheme on a whim, and the wife picked it out of the line up of possible options, and just like that a paint project was born.
The neck was purchased ~17 years ago when I needed a cheap neck for an older project. It's a MIM Standard strat neck that the previous owner did a bit of a relic job. It's still in fine condition, so it's going to get cleaned up and prepped for paint.
Bridge humbucker is a Brobucker, bridge is a Wilkinson VSVG, and I have enough spare parts to round out the hardware and electronics. I had intended to use only spare parts, but succumbed to a few moments of weakness along the way:
UPS came today with a new Warmoth swamp ash strat body. Universal route, side output jack, vintage tremolo. Body weighs in at 3lb 5.2oz, a bit lighter than I expected, but I'm not complaining. Many of these specs were based on the idea that I was a body short of a parts guitar due to the number of spare parts I had laying around. The original idea was to get an inexpensive body (something along the lines of a parted out Classic Vibe body). I mocked up this paint scheme on a whim, and the wife picked it out of the line up of possible options, and just like that a paint project was born.
The neck was purchased ~17 years ago when I needed a cheap neck for an older project. It's a MIM Standard strat neck that the previous owner did a bit of a relic job. It's still in fine condition, so it's going to get cleaned up and prepped for paint.
Bridge humbucker is a Brobucker, bridge is a Wilkinson VSVG, and I have enough spare parts to round out the hardware and electronics. I had intended to use only spare parts, but succumbed to a few moments of weakness along the way:
- Fender Locking Tuners - I have a spare set of vintage style split shaft tuners, but ErikH had these for sale and I snatched them up.
- Barrel String Retainers - An upgrade from the vintage style string retainer.
- Pickups - I decided to bring a minihumbucker back into my stable, which turned into finding a sale on the Mojotone Johnny Winter firebird set. I'll admit it's an odd combination of pickups, but why not live a little?
- Pickguard - I had to order a new pickguard for the new pickup configuration. A word of caution on these pickups... the Mojotone firebird pickups are a little larger than Duncan mini humbuckers, which are the largest mini humbucker rout Warmoth offers. I had to sand the routes a bit to get them to fit.