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New strat assembly finished!

SoulPedro
January 30th, 2009, 08:39 AM
Hi all,

A few months ago I asked some advice for the color of my next strat assembly. I finally chose vintage white, and it's now finished!


Here are the specs:

- Vintage white body from Rockinger
- CIJ 62 RI neck from stratosphere
- Gotoh tuners
- Callaham vintage strat bridge
- 2 custom 69 fender pickups in neck and middle, taken from my CP60
- Seymour Duncan SSL5 in bridge position
- CTS pots with 250 k no load tone pots, CRL switch

The pics:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/SoulPedro/DSC_0047-1.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/SoulPedro/DSC_0048.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/SoulPedro/DSC_0050.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/SoulPedro/DSC_0049.jpg


The japanese neck is great, and the custom69 Pups that I didn't like in my CP 60 sound really nice in this one
Loco
January 30th, 2009, 08:56 AM
Lovely looking guitar. You obviously chose the correct colour...! :wink:
Laundromat
January 30th, 2009, 09:41 AM
I usually lean towards olympic white but that is just lovely.
I really like how well the aged plastic goes with the body color. And the dark rosewood...
Old Cane
January 30th, 2009, 12:16 PM
Really nice choice of colors and parts.
boris bubbanov
January 30th, 2009, 01:32 PM
Looks very nice, congrats!
ghosttour
January 30th, 2009, 01:47 PM
That's really nice! Great job.
SoulPedro
January 31st, 2009, 05:57 PM
Thank you all,

It was my first attempt to assemble a guitar from parts, and I'm still surprised of how playable it is...

The next one will be a tele
Gracie Fields
February 5th, 2009, 07:31 AM
Quelle beauté!
SoulPedro
February 5th, 2009, 07:32 AM
Welcome and merci beaucoup!
Post Toastie
February 6th, 2009, 10:24 AM
That is a beautiful Soulcaster....Nice.
ganzua
February 6th, 2009, 10:51 AM
very nice!
Guinness
February 7th, 2009, 08:41 AM
Wow- very nice indeed!

Did you have an easy time matching the neck to the body? That is one of the main things keeping me from a project like that.

Congrats on a fine job!

~Randy
SoulPedro
February 7th, 2009, 12:59 PM
Wow- very nice indeed!

Did you have an easy time matching the neck to the body? That is one of the main things keeping me from a project like that.

Congrats on a fine job!

~Randy

I was a bit afraid, too, because of the differnt origin of the neck and body, but it was quite a perfect fit, and no additional work was necessary.

The neck pocket fits perfectly laterally, there is only a small space around the angles of the neck, the neck being "round" and the pocket more "square" (not sure that I'm clear!). Anyhow, it's hidden under the pickguard.