Hi all!

I'm just starting up this new topic because I can't really figure something out.

Does my perfect strat allready exist or doesn't it?

Here is what it would be:

- just your standard strat body
- HSS (with lipstick pickups for single coils and nickle plated cover for the humbucker)
- reverse headstock ( jumbo 70's style for that matter)
- tuners with creamish plastic covers.
- rosewood fretboard on a flamed quartersawn maple neck ( c profile)
- I want it in 3-way sunburst, but i want the headstock in mini-sunburst too.
- The decall needs to be aged white with a black rim and really big, 70's again.
Here it comes!
- I want it with a bigsby (b3), so no hole in the back.
- Controls are all standard (aged white, creamish) material, cream pickguard and all chrome hardware.

Has anyone ever seen anything like this? Or could someone make it?
Has it ever been made?

grtz.

Oh! I forgot!

Trapezoid inlays, but no pearly things. Just plain white, preferably a little yellowish aged.

i own a few strats even one that go's back
to 1968 and my perfect stats are my 2007's
highway one's with out any doubt.

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Sure, you could build it. But obviously it doesn't exist as production guitar.

Start checking out the parts suppliers... Warmoth, USA, WD, Antique Electronics Supply, etc., and source the parts. Screw it together.

But don't be stupid and put a fake Fender decal on it. I mean, aside from the illegality, Fender never built anything like this Frankenstein, so what would be the point?

Yeah, i would never put a fender decall on it if it weren't a real fender. I guess i'm secretly hoping fender would one day built this exact guitar. I would have to become rich and famous first, but that's just a minor detail

The whole thing would be worthless to me without that nice, big, white fender decall.

Interesting layout; 'cant' say it appeals here, but good for you having a wanna-have custom.

Plenty of luthiers would be happy to make it. Best of fortune.

My perfect strat is mine. 2008 MIM sss sunburst.

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I think Fender has a custom shop. I don't know if they would build to that spec or not. Carvin would and could do it, but it would say Carvin, which I see no problem with.

There is a lot of custom builder companies out there, if you are willing to wait for it.

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Guitars:
1. mid 70's Ventura MIJ Gibson l6-s clone (Pre-lawsuit) in Black with Rosewood FB and EMG 81 BR/ 85 Neck
2. ESP KH2 Neck Thru
3. 2008 Am Std Strat in 3 tone sunburst

My perfect Strat would have a 70's head stock with the 60's logo instead of the 70's one, maple neck and fretboard, standard S S S configuration, hardtail bridge, white Pearloid pickguard and the strat would be finished off in surf green with an orange competition racing sripe. Tuners would be standard American ones too.

I have no problem with people putting a fake Fender decal on their partscasters as long as (a) they never plan to market it as a real Stratocaster; and (b) they make several marks on the component parts that identify it as a partscaster -- say, inside the body cavities or on the neck where it joins the body.

Oh, and my dream Stratocaster is a vintage white model with vintage tuners, components and pickups, along with a wide 70s-style headstock and the controls re-wired so as to eliminate the tone controls and move the volume pot back to where the bottom tone control is.

Sounds like you want the fretboard of a Les Paul on the neck of a lefty 70s Stratocaster with the tail piece of an SG and bridge pup from a Telecaster. Shouldn't be too hard to find one.

I wish I could find one perfect do all guitar. I don't think there is one. Different gear makes for a variety of tones and sounds and helps in the broadening of you imagenation through experimentation. No true musician just rest on there laurels.

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Your perfect Strat isn't my perfect Strat. But then my perfect Strat isn't your perfect Strat.

Some of your preference are aesthetic, such as the sunburst and mini-sunburst. Others. I would assume are for tone.

Why the heck do you want the bigsby, though? For the funky look? In terms of function, isn't the Bigsby inferior in just about every way to the Fender Trem?

Well you see, i bought a gretsch a few months ago. I only owned it for three months because it wasn't really my cup of tea. But i wish i could have just kept the bigsby. The bigsby really did it for me.

I never really use my strandard start trem. alot. You'll never hear me saying it's bad hardware though! The bigsby just seemed more fit for me personally. The look of it is actually more of a downside to me...

Okay, makes sense. What kinda wood for the body?