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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:58 am
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Hello Abombaci,

4 stratocasters and a telecaster

All factory original and relic free

I have changed the strings. 8)

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All my guitars bought new have stayed stock - I bought them cos I liked them as they were.

But "pre-owned": well, the whole point of that is to find a sad, wrecked guitar fit for the breaker's yard and bring it back to life. Which normally means it's a playground for any wild upgrades and experiments you can dream up. All manner of pickup swaps, refinishes and neck improvements.

I've done six-screw to two-point trem conversions - and the opposite! I've carved out wood to fill a humbucker cavity and then re-routed back to single-coil. Right now I am shopping, slowly, for just the right Lite Ash Tele to go mad on, because I think that is a very nice platform for further creativity/destructiveness.

So the answer to the question is kinda - yes and no.

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My Squier Deluxe Strat and Fender Custom Classic Strat are perfect, stock as they are. The only things that will change are the strings.

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Ceri wrote:
But "pre-owned": well, the whole point of that is to find a sad, wrecked guitar fit for the breaker's yard and bring it back to life.


I've done that a couple times. We call them "basket cases" because often you bring home all of the parts in a basket for future reassembly (but a lot of the time all of the parts aren't there).

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I just changed the strings too :)

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Have kept my sig clapton un touched even down to the fender bullet strings
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the only original thing on my MIM Strat is the wood


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WAREAGLE wrote:
the only original thing on my MIM Strat is the wood

Too funny!!! I've had one or two of those. Peace. J.J.B.

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01GT eibach wrote:
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... I did hand roll the edges of the fret board for added comfort ...

How did you do this? (sorry if I am hijacking)


I took a socket and rolled it along the edge back and forth between the frets until they were rounded. Took a couple hours and alot of elbow grease.

It did ruin the finish on the side of the fret board.


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It did ruin the finish on the side of the fret board.


How so? Did it crack and flake?

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NapalmBBQ wrote:
01GT eibach wrote:
NapalmBBQ wrote:
... I did hand roll the edges of the fret board for added comfort ...

How did you do this? (sorry if I am hijacking)


I took a socket and rolled it along the edge back and forth between the frets until they were rounded. Took a couple hours and alot of elbow grease.

It did ruin the finish on the side of the fret board.


There's a "mod" I've been known to do on non-stock guitars (and new builds, but let's not get into that): I James Tyler-ise the fingerboard. What Tyler does on his super-Strat guitars is fret the neck and then contour out the edges of the fingerboard, but only between the frets. A cabinetmaker's scraper and perhaps a file are the tools for the job.

It means that the fret keeps it's full height as close to the edge as possible, which is nice for playability. So you get the best of both worlds: the comfy "worn" feel of a rounded fingerboard edge, and the benefit of strings hopefully not falling off the side of the neck.

Of course, on an already finished maple neck it necessitates refinishing the lacquer along the edges, but then how difficult is that?

Cheers - C


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I have 2 Strats. One I keep stock, and they other I change pickups occasionally in that search for the perfect tone.


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