if you can buy a custom stratocaster with the wood, mics, color, etc. of your taste. what will be?

for me:

Body: Alder with Flame Maple Top (cherry sunburst finish or natural)
Neck: Maple,“D” Shape (like SRV)
Fingerboard: Pau Ferro, 12” Radius
# of Frets: 21 6105 Jumbo Frets
Pickups: 3 Texas Special™ Single-Coil Strat® Pickups
Bridge: American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo with 5 tensors.
Machine head: Vintage Style Tuning Machines
strings: 0,11" or 0,10"

nice....and for you?
thanks for read this...

Body = Mrado wood with light stain and a clear coat / Black pickguarg
Neck = C shaped; made out of solid Macassar Ebony with scalloped fret board
Fingerboard = 21 Dunlop 6105 frets
Pickups neck = Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates humbucker
Pickup middle = Dimarzio single coil sized humbucker (Chooper)
Pickup bridge = Dimarzio Super Distortion DP100 Humbucker
Bridge = original German Floyd Rose tremlo with locking nut
Oversized 70 style head stock with Linear String Rotation (LRS) tuners

Thanks now you got me dreaming big! (champagne dreams on a beer budget)

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Body - Alder
Finish - Thinskin black nitro finish
Plastics - All white
Neck/Fingerboard - 1 piece flame maple, nitro finish, 9.5" radius, Slight V shape
Pickups - Custom shop 1956 pickups (found on the '56 NOS) or CS '69s
Bridge: Vintage
Machine Heads: Vintage

hahaha...we all have a beer budget!

Body - Alder
Finish - Sunburst Nitro Finish
Plastics - All black, including pickguard, excluding pickup covers
Neck/Fingerboard - What ever the shape is on my Squier, I think it's D. Maple neck, rosewood fretboard. Big 70s shape. 12' radius.
Pickups - Custom Shop Texas Specials
Bridge: Vintage, Left Handed
Machine Heads: Modern
Hardware: Chrome

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Ya know, this is something that I've thought about for a long time. I've built a couple of guitars myself and I've often thought about building my "Ultimate Strat". If I could have the Custom Shop do it and price wasn't an object (don't I wish!), I've come to realize that my tastes are fairly simple...

- Alder or possibly Swamp Ash body with the wood being hand selected -by me-
- 2 Tone traditional sunburst finish (but just a little more "red" than "brown") with the top lacquer being somewhere between a Highway 1 and a normal finish...I like the "sound" from the thin HW1 finishes, but I do like a more glossy, polished look
- I would want the neck on my '96 MIM replicated exactly (except possibly for the stained finish...the '96 is getting a little yellow)...maple neck, maple fretboard
- Either EMG pickups or Gold Lace Sensors
- White or Ivory pick guard and accents
- Vintage 6 point trem with steel trem block (like the Callaham in my MIM), graphic saddles and a graphite nut
- "Roller" string T's are a must
- Standard non-locking tuners
- Vintage styled tweed case (I'm a sucker for tweed!)

Of course I would want to setup the action myself...I'm -very- picky about my setup . Actually, because I have built a few of my own, I would want to be involved in the whole construction process.

Peace,
Jim

I already have my strat! Woo! Its a faded red with a rosewood fretboard and I aged it myself =D

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Body= Padouk
Neck= Birdseye Maple
Fretboard= Ebony
Hardware= String through body bridge+Staggerd turners+Ivory Nut and inlaids+Muy Grande pickups (Black Pearl)
Neck+body Finish= Clear
Hardware+Knobs Finnish= Nickel

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Mine would be like...

-Select alder body. One piece alder body that is.
-White pearloid pickguard.
-Natural nitro. lacquer finish. Thin of course.
-Hardtail bridge.
-A Seymour Duncan '59 in the bridge and 2 P-90s in the neck and middle positions. All pups have black covers.
-Modern C-shape Strat neck, bolt on (set Fender necks just don't feel right to me). Maple with an ebony fingerboard. 70's headstock. Silky satin finish on the neck.
-Mother of pearl star inlays with the American flag at the 12th fret.
-Vintage style locking tuners.
-Roller nut or Earvana nut.
-Medium-jumbo frets.
-Made in AMERICA.

Ah...one day...

Body - Alder with rosewood, or KOA top
Finish - no finish body neck satin
Plastics - pickguard made of rosewood and even custom pickups covers and knobs
Neck/Fingerboard - maple with ebony fretboard C shape with jumbo frets, 10" radious and large big headstock and bullet trusrod nut..
Pickups - probably custom 69's to have a classic fender sound
Bridge: american standard
Machine Heads: schaller locking tuners
Hardware: regular

Rosewood fret board... red body... that ive aged... pickups my dad made =D! WOO!

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I'd need two
An alder fiesta red custom classic thinskin finished body. With a heavy relic'd deep birdseye neck (just to make the builder balk) identical to my 57 hotrod. 50's tuners and tree.
Mint green pickguard/pickup covers and heavy relic'd synchronized trem.
Scn pickups with s1 switching
Ec mid boost that can be removed from the circuit via a push pull pot on the mid boost control. 2nd tone control to be a push pull giving bypass of all controls including the selector.
If its possible it would cost a fortune.

The other would just be a fullerton tribute 54 but with Georges signature where the fender logo is meant to be with the fender logo on the back of the headstock. They could keep the pro jr

Ah dreams

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Well, if we're dreaming--
A Walnut body
Maple neck with rosewood fingerboard & abalone inlays.
Truss rod adjustment at headstock
Pickguard would be either black, clear, or walnut veneer.
Black hardware.

Not sure on the pickups--but I'd go with single coils.
I already have many options for humbuckers.

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Zontar.
Swineshead pickups offer wooden covered singlecoils and humbuckers im sure the do walnut too. Why not go the whole hog eh? The whole wooden guard thing has had my attention for some time. I just cant find anyone to do it in the uk that offers what i want.

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That would be cool--I've seen humbuckers with wood covers, why not single coils?

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