I'm sorry, Bill. The boys at Alexandria Music Co. took care of me really well. The luthier gave me a price of $250 firm if I buy the wire.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

No need to apologize to me. You do what you have to do. Hopefully they will do a good job for you. I don't even know if Larry does SS, but if he did, I know he would have done an excellent job for you.

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Bill

Who are you getting your wire from? And are you getting SS?

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Either jumbo or tall skinny. Not doing SS because he most likely has to do a little extra work just getting the wire to stay in place. The factory frets were very shallow.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

Also, I ordered a set of nickel Kluson Deluxe tuners, I'm going to upgrade the pots and caps, and I'm actually adding a ground wire! (didn't have one when I opened it up. It was cut into pieces, laying inside the body)

Also planning on potting the pickups in home. (definitely need to videotape that lol)

I did a thorough cleaning on it that took about 2 hours. There's still some DNA that needs removal, so I've got maybe another hour or so left to put in it.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

You can order it from Stewart Mac pretty cheap about 6ft. I have never wax potted pickups before but, if you ground it with some basic shielding it should quiet down. I will be curious how much the wax potting helps. Let us know.

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When you say DNA I think Monica Lewinsky.

I found the term funny. I stole it from a guy who does guitar repairs/setups/cleanings on YT named Davey4557. Check him out, he's pretty funny and does some really cool videos.

I guess you could think Monica Lewinsky. The Clinton years were not as funny as the bush years, though.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

i know it won't apply because you'd have to find something with a similar neck in better shape, but like texasguitarslinger said, when i finally decided my frets were done, i bought a squier bullet strat with a really smooth neck on it and just stole the neck off it. neck replacement for 100 bucks. and then i gave what was left of the squier plus the junk neck to a friend in desperate need of a guitar.

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The only thing is that it has a very weird connection to bolt on. It slides in from the top of the pocket and locks in place, then is bolted. This would be a $@!&* to recreate, so it's not worth bothering with. The cost of a neck, plus the cost of the work to recreate the joint would probably be the same cost as a refret.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

What do you guys think about Jescar? I'm thinking about their Gold-EVO frets.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

I think I'm going to go with the biggest Gold-EVO frets out there.

What should I do for pots/caps?

And I'm getting rid of the dingy grey knobs for a set of witch hats.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-MICAMOLD-1 ... 58956fb82e

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CTS-250K-Short- ... 4ab76ff82e

http://www.ebay.com/itm/6-Feet-Premium- ... 27c9b5e4fa

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Volume-Tone ... 3371dbc812

I've got a list of parts, guys. What do you think?

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

I imagine the pots/caps will amazingly improve the clarity.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

Looks good. Don't know about the caps though. I would think a .047 would be the warmest sounding you would want to go.? I use .022 and .015 with Strats.

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