Why Do This To A Guitar?!, it's just cruel... :P Options

[Marcus Lavendell]

I just bought a second hand guitar, a 1972 Stratocaster.
As always when I get a new guitar I take it down into pieces to make adjustments, but also for cleaning of course

And this is what I see when removing the pickguard - Basically all the wood has been carved out (and it's definitely not made by a professional)!! Amazingly, this doesn't affect the tone much. I miss a little treble, but that's all. Other than that it sounds great Just don't know what the guy was thinking when he did this!

[sidewas lightnin...]

Who knows, someone who was either a nutball with a freaky temper or a guy with some weird notions about what to do with his strat. But if hes crazy why did he remove the pickguard before gutting it? I'm scared to look under mine's pickguard now though... thats scary . Oh well, man, as long as it sounds good. And you could make a no name strat sound like a 3000 buck guitar. Do you know where you got it from? Have you talked to the guy that owned it last? You could ask him what the heck he was thinking. I'd be a little ticked if I spent my money on that too. Makes me sick, dude, makes me sick.