Building A Usa Strat On A Budget Pt.2, Tons of Pictures to Feast Your Eyes Upon |
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Building A Usa Strat On A Budget Pt.2, Tons of Pictures to Feast Your Eyes Upon |
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Oct 21 2010, 09:58 PM |
This is the second installment of the budget USA Strat series, if you haven't read the first part, you can find it here.
In the original post I said the plan was to install the RS Guitarworks electronics kit, but that plan has been scrapped. I ended up getting the Specialty Guitars Strat upgrade kit that was tuned to have vintage/modern SRV sound. I saved about $25 going with this kit. The RS Guitarworks kit had a paper and oil capacitor, which was a big portion of the cost. I just couldn't justify dishing out that kind of money for something that makes little, if any difference in tone. Also, I ended up going with the Guitar Fetish tuners instead of the Sperzels, and saved $30 in the process. These two changes saved me $55, which goes to show you if you don't keep a level head the price of your project can skyrocket. If I ad in the the savings from getting the Tonerider pickups instead of the Texas Specials, the savings expand to $135. Remember, this is a budget project, keeping costs down is absolutely essential. The tuners were too big for the holes, so now I have to bore out the holes to 10mm. I was gonna do it with a reamer, but they're expensive, so I'm just going to drill out the holes. I'll start off with a 6mm bit then work up to a 10mm, at least thats the plan for now. Anyways, enough yapping, on with the pictures. Edit: All the pics didn't fit in one posting, so here are the links to all four posts: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 - This is what I started with - All the parts laid out - Steel wool and tape used to buff out the gloss and give to guitar a satin finish - Tremolo Kit - Pickguard and black screws - Electronics Upgrade Kit - Straplocks, felt pads, and Pickup selector cap - Tonerider City Limits Pickups - Tuners - Orange Drop Capacitor - I put the cap next to a quarter just so you can get an idea of how big it is. It was actually a lot bigger that I thought it was gonna be. - Pickup Selector. I had to push down the little metal tabs to make sure they made contact with the sliding plate, they were slightly bent up upon arrival. - The crappy ass loaded stock pickguard. - A ceramic bar going across the pole pieces, pretty shitty if you ask me, you can see where Peavey cut corners. - 500K pots? Aren't single coils supposed to have 250k pots? The stock pickups must be really dark sounding. - Stock capacitor. - New CTS pot. - A side by side comparison between old and new caps. - Almost empty guitar This post has been edited by Mudbone: Oct 21 2010, 11:19 PM -------------------- He who laughs last thinks slowest. "That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence." - Christopher Hitchens Gear: Guitars: Uncle Rufus' Twanger Classic Amps: Mississippi Boom Box Mojo: Hammer of Odin and a pair of Ox gonads Inspiration: Samuel Adams Boston Lager Zero to Hero: 1,387/10,000 |
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Oct 21 2010, 10:37 PM |
Wow these posts are awesome. Picture quality is great too!
I'd love to put this stuff into a nice wiki article, would you like me to? -------------------- Guitars:
Fender American Deluxe Stratocaster, Ibanez RG2570MZ, Epiphone SG G-400 Amp: Vox AC4TVH head + V112TV cab Effects: Vox Satchurator, Vox Time Machine, Dunlop CryBaby, Boss MT-2, Boss CE-5, Boss TU-2, Boss ME-70 Recording: Line-6 POD X3 + FBV-Express, Pandora PX5D GMC wants YOU to take part in our Guitar-Wikipedia! Have a good time reading great articles and writing your own with us in our GUITAR WIKI! Share your playing and get Pro-advice from our Instructors: Join REC |
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Oct 22 2010, 02:32 AM |
amazing man, thanks for sharing this!!
maybe you can make a nice demo video?, i'm a strat geek! -------------------- Check my Instructor Profile Rockers! Got a Blog too!, www.adriantracks.com Follow me on facebook and youtube! -Youtube |
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Oct 22 2010, 03:46 PM |
Feel free to put this in a Wiki article, I actually documented all this because I didn't find anything similar to this on the internet, and wanted to share it with people who were looking to do the same thing. I just hope after you post it I can go back and polish it up a little bit Sure man, the article will be there for you to add/change/tweak anything you see fit -------------------- Guitars:
Fender American Deluxe Stratocaster, Ibanez RG2570MZ, Epiphone SG G-400 Amp: Vox AC4TVH head + V112TV cab Effects: Vox Satchurator, Vox Time Machine, Dunlop CryBaby, Boss MT-2, Boss CE-5, Boss TU-2, Boss ME-70 Recording: Line-6 POD X3 + FBV-Express, Pandora PX5D GMC wants YOU to take part in our Guitar-Wikipedia! Have a good time reading great articles and writing your own with us in our GUITAR WIKI! Share your playing and get Pro-advice from our Instructors: Join REC |
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