Dub's Wacky Project Guitars Thread--we're baaaaaack

[coldbrightsunlight]

Oh nooo yeah that would bug me on the strat too. good luck with the repair! Fun story and classic philosophical question included with that one

[dubkitty]

while waiting for the body to be ready i decided to go into my bag of Strat tremolo parts in the parts box and revamp things. the import Fender plate i used is much better-made than the Gotoh plate i was using, better bevels and nicer chrome. happily the Gotoh block fits perfectly.i had some extra saddles as well and changed out the more tired-looking ones as well as swapping out length adjustment screws with chewed-up heads and changing a couple of the height adjustment screws for shorter ones that don't chew up my hand when i strum. the bottom two saddles are visibly different and i notice the new ones are a bit narrower which is good for string spacing over the pickups, so perhaps i should do the others if i have them.

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[dubkitty]

everything's back together now. i didn't get it exactly right, but it's better than it was and i guess i'll settle for that. it's pushed over a bit to the bass side, which was inadvertent but is good because the high E string is too far from the polepiece on the bridge pickup. taking a break before i do the intonation/string height/pickups.

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i'm sure there's old photos showing how much worse it was, but i don't care enough to dig them out. looking forward to having this guitar in good shape again. i'm not as much of a Strat Guy as i used to be, but i still love 'em.

[dubkitty]

set everything up and it's just lovely. sounds like i remember it sounding 20 years ago. i just love when my projects come out well.