I have a sickness with guitars that look beat up... Love the Steve Vai green meanie and the EVH strats of the 70's and 80's..... Going thru my closet i found a guitar i rarely use but love the sound of it big time! The neck is god awful and the thing will not stay in tune.... It was just a bunch of cheap replacement parts i bought years ago at local guitar stores.... Funny how back in the late 80's and early 90's every guitar store stocked necks and bodies for custom guitars and now no one does.. There is 2 stores in Toronto that i know carry a few WD or Mighty Mite necks and bodies... But there used to be a store that carried lots of Warmoth necks and bodies in stock! And it was cheaper to buy them at the store then order direct from Warmoth....
Anyways i have no idea who made the neck and body i have... I think the neck was made in teh Godin Factory and the body may of been a left over Kramer or maybe it's a Godin made strat too.. no idea really.. It was rear loaded guitar but i had stuck a pickguard on it years ago.. I wanted that EVH white strat with Black pickguard single humbucker look... The guitar has a Gotoh vintage style trem on it and if i can fit a floyd on this body i will do so.... maybe tomorrow...
The neck has to go... it is dung.... i'll make a new neck for it myself... I have one on the way.. maple with an Ebony board so i might use it for this project... The body will have all sorts of screw holes and odd mods to the pickup routes and i'm thinking of taking the pickguard off and leaving it off..... Think it'll look neat all beat up.... I have throwin this guitar around and it has landed hard a few times.... For a basswood body it has held up... There is a split in the body or paint... i can't tell if it goes thru to the wood or if it's just a paint split.. either way this thing kicks some tone! This piece of basswood makes this strat sound like an SG...... extremely thick! It has an old but very nice Dimarzio Double Whammy pickup in it... that thing rocks!
If i can post photos in the near future i'll put them up....
WhoFan
Anyways i have no idea who made the neck and body i have... I think the neck was made in teh Godin Factory and the body may of been a left over Kramer or maybe it's a Godin made strat too.. no idea really.. It was rear loaded guitar but i had stuck a pickguard on it years ago.. I wanted that EVH white strat with Black pickguard single humbucker look... The guitar has a Gotoh vintage style trem on it and if i can fit a floyd on this body i will do so.... maybe tomorrow...
The neck has to go... it is dung.... i'll make a new neck for it myself... I have one on the way.. maple with an Ebony board so i might use it for this project... The body will have all sorts of screw holes and odd mods to the pickup routes and i'm thinking of taking the pickguard off and leaving it off..... Think it'll look neat all beat up.... I have throwin this guitar around and it has landed hard a few times.... For a basswood body it has held up... There is a split in the body or paint... i can't tell if it goes thru to the wood or if it's just a paint split.. either way this thing kicks some tone! This piece of basswood makes this strat sound like an SG...... extremely thick! It has an old but very nice Dimarzio Double Whammy pickup in it... that thing rocks!
If i can post photos in the near future i'll put them up....
WhoFan
