Hi, I´m building myself a "vintage" custom strat, with a select ash body, as a 62 replica, The neck, tuners, pickups, etc, are snatched from a 94 American Standard, the neck is rosewood with the small headstock. the pickguard and pickups have a creamy vintage white color. I´m gonna have it all in natural aged finish, since the headstock has already an orangy vintage tone in the wood, as blonde as it gets. My only doubt are the frets, since it is pretty much a vintage guitar, it should have the small frets, but i prefer jumbo, any suggestions?

Welcome.

I personally prefer 'vintage' spec Strats. But when it comes to frets, I have no compunctions about having something bigger than the OEM, "brads" in them. Consider this reasoning: It is YOUR guitar. Unless you are putting it together with the intention of flipping it or doing a complete spec restoration for future speculative purposes, do to it what will make YOU enjoy it the most.

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You dig?

Are you sure, Martian?

I think he should put on "vintage style" skinny frets because WE like them!

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My other guitar is a Strat.

LMAO, I stand corrected!

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Thanx for your response. I have told my luthier to put jumbo frets on it. Definetely i prefer jumbo cause my skin rubs less on the fretboard, feels faster. Now i have to decide between two bodies, both from ash, but one is a single slab with a light flame, and the other is two pieces joines together with a heavy flame.
Tomorrow i choose body, be nice to hear an opinion on that, some tell me one or the other, does 2 pieces vs one affect tone?

Body joins affect tone, not one bit. If your having a seethrough finish keep the number of joins down to two or preferably one. It just looks better. If its a solid block finish it doesnt matter.

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No no and no

I´ll just go with the best looking one, since tone isn´t affected, eventhough some say it does.
Natural finish with lots of honey.