Post your modded Strats!

[JMP/HBE]

Oh how'd that get in here ???

 

[GuitarStv]

Not gonna lie. I love this - Charvel Stratocaster!

Yeah. The stability of a floyd trem, plus the lovely neck makes this way better than any off the shelf strat I've ever touched.

 

[MikeS]

Here's my lot of modded strats. I won't include the bone stock superstrat (LTD Serpent 600). Excuse the quick photo and the wall spackle.



2003 Fender HWY1
Replaced pickups with Fender CS Texas Specials. Swapped out white covers, switch tip, and knobs for black. Replaced bridge with a Wilkinson VSVG. Rewired with a superswitch and a push/pull, so in addition to the five classic strat tones, I also get the notch positions in series and the neck & bridge in parallel.

Warmoth Strat
Has the look of a modded strat, but was built this way. Temporarily had a single hum with a DD then a Brobucker, but is back to its original configuration. Warmoth 1-piece mahogany body, Fender Player Plus neck with Schaller locking tuners, Warmoth blue shell pickguard with H-S layout (this is the best layout) featuring a Crazy 8 and Cool Rails. Mini switch is on-off-on that allows pickups to be split to either coil. Floating Wilkinson VS100.

Aria STG-004.
1997 import strat copy, originally a 4-piece amber-tinted alder with a white guard (HSS). Has seen numerous iterations over the years. This was eventually stripped down and refinished. Reshaped headstock, thinned out the heel, and made the forearm contour more aggressive (as in, it's close to a strat now, the original had less contour than a Fender). Hipshot locking tuners, Wilkinson VS100. This single-hum white guard is just a test for my Brobucker. The guitar usually sports a matte black pickguard with H-S layout (still the best layout) featuring a Screamin Demon and a Stra-Bro 90. I don't have any pictures with the black guard.​

 

[Rex_Rocker]

I've actually always kinda wanted to chisel out the cavity on my Strat to make it H-H, LOL. I just don't like single coils, I feel. Or most of them, actually. I still kinda want to try a QP in there.

 

[GuitarStv]

I've actually always kinda wanted to chisel out the cavity on my Strat to make it H-H, LOL. I just don't like single coils, I feel. Or most of them, actually. I still kinda want to try a QP in there.

QP sounds more like a humbucker than single coil and it is crazy loud. If you can deal with the hum, I bet you would like it.

 

[Ascension]

My 95 Washburn Chicago Custom MG 120 SSL 1 singles and a JB and my Kiesel Delos Marks Singles and a Beryllium are 2. of them.

 

[Mincer]

QP sounds more like a humbucker than single coil and it is crazy loud. If you can deal with the hum, I bet you would like it.

The QP is loud alright, but to me it has the attack of a single coil. It sounds like a loud single, really. There isn't a humbucker quite like it.

 

[Ascension]

94 Wasburn Silerado SSL 1s neck and middle SSL 5 bridge and 95 MG 102.59 with a A 3 mag and a JB.

 

[jeremy]

The QP is loud alright, but to me it has the attack of a single coil. It sounds like a loud single, really. There isn't a humbucker quite like it.

i agree, i dont think it sounds much like a humbucker. its a beast of a single coil though

 

[Mincer]

i agree, i dont think it sounds much like a humbucker. its a beast of a single coil though

It is! I always tell people who say they don't like QPs to try one. They become converts.

 

[jeremy]

i really like the strat, tele, and qp versions. i like the jazz bass in the bridge, but prefer a more vintage type pup in the neck/middle position

 

[GuitarStv]

The QP is loud alright, but to me it has the attack of a single coil. It sounds like a loud single, really. There isn't a humbucker quite like it.

Attack, maybe . . . I was thinking more about high end. It doesn't have the glassy highs that I associate with single coils at all. Very middy and lo-middy like a humbucker.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

When I had the Tele version I liked that it still sounded twangy and aggressive, like a Tele should, but it wasn't scratchy and plinky like most Tele bridge pickups under high gain. Kinda like a JB meets a P90 with just a hint of Tele bridge pickup.

But the Strat QP's are very differently-spec'd. Almost like comparing a PATB-1 and 2.

 

[jeremy]

no, it is not a glassy pup at all.

 

[Ascension]

It is! I always tell people who say they don't like QPs to try one. They become converts.

Have run a couple, but never really warmed up to them. Sorta like a bad very hot P 90 to me. To brash losses all the normal spank and sweetness of a single. Prefer the SSL5 or 6 for a hot single to the Quarter Pounder or one of the mini Humbuckers. They just never worked for me in either a Strat or a Tele.

 

[Ascension]

Attack, maybe . . . I was thinking more about high end. It doesn't have the glassy highs that I associate with single coils at all. Very middy and lo-middy like a humbucker.

Exactly what I experienced with them. Tried to like the QP and have run them a few times, but it's just not my thing. Prefer something like the SSL 5 or one of the mini humbuckers to the QP.

 

[strat dude]

what’s an un-modded strat? zz0.m4auhojh6rfzz

 

[strat dude]

I would take a STK-S9 over a QP or SSL5, but that’s just me. YJM is my fave.

 

[Securb]

The black one is my No. 1 for trem work in the studio;

Spezel locking tuners
LSR nut
Dimebucker/Bill Lawrence L250
Volume knob is a kill/stutter switch
Babicz bridge

This is my Swiss Army Strat. I can get anything out of it.

Spezel locking tuners
LSR nut
Fralin High Output/Fralin Pure PAF (w/ Fralin partial split mod)
Volume (1) knob is a kill/stutter switch
Volume (2) is a push/pull phase
Babicz bridge​

 

[Rex_Rocker]

I see many of us are modding our Strats to be H-S.

Lots of great-looking Strats in this thread!