Members vonrang Posted February 16, 2016 Members Share Posted February 16, 2016 Here is my Surf's Up Stratocaster build. This uses a modified version of my Tri-Sound Strat schematic along with a Graphtech Ghost Floyd Rose Bridge, LRBaggs CTRL-X preamp and SD Cool Rails neck, Vintage Rails middle and Hot Rails bridge with mini switches for parallel, split and series function along with a blending pot for mixing piezo output with the magnetic pickups. This guitar also has mono/stereo output. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gardo Posted February 16, 2016 Members Share Posted February 16, 2016 I wasn't sure what to expect based on the thumbnails but that is some wild looking woodwork I like itI'd love to hear a demo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Freeman Keller Posted February 17, 2016 Members Share Posted February 17, 2016 I'd like to know more about the construction. Are the thin light stripes the spalted maple? If so how did you stabilize and glue it or is it a drop top over some sort of solid body? More pictures please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vonrang Posted February 17, 2016 Author Members Share Posted February 17, 2016 This is a fully laminated solid construction. The Spalted Maple segments are solid dense segments (not pithy) so adhesion is not an issue. The neck was designed on Warmoth's website. It is Mahogany with Walnut Skunk stripe reinforcement and a Bubinga wood fretboard with 22 6150 frets. The neck is a four bolt pattern with custom laser engraved neck plate. The finish is Beechwood Casey TruOil applied with cotton makeup pads in a piece of nylon stocking. The first coat was applied and allowed to dry 48hrs. The second coat was applied and sanded with 600 grit wet/dry emory in small circles to mix micro wood dust with the TruOil to seal the grain. Successive coats were applied with cotton makeup pads in a piece of nylon stocking and surfaced after 24hrs of drying between coats with 0000 steel wool. The body is a rear route control cavity design with front route for the pickup cavities. The pickup rings are also Spalted Maple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thatsbunk Posted February 17, 2016 Members Share Posted February 17, 2016 Nice! Definitely has a 60's surfboard vibe to it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 Cowabunga dude! That's some nice work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vonrang Posted February 17, 2016 Author Members Share Posted February 17, 2016 I really was trying to get that 1960's California look to this guitar! The control cover will be swapped out for a white cover to match the Fishman integrated 9v battery tremolo cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Zoobiedood Posted February 17, 2016 Members Share Posted February 17, 2016 Great pickup choices there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members humbuckerstrat Posted February 18, 2016 Members Share Posted February 18, 2016 Awesome build, HNBD! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GAS Man Posted February 19, 2016 Members Share Posted February 19, 2016 I'm impressed. I bought the Fender Longboard Strat, so you know I already like that type of look. The rich colors to yours is very striking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 6down1togo Posted February 22, 2016 Members Share Posted February 22, 2016 Birchwood Casey's TruOil finish. Surfy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrbrown49 Posted February 23, 2016 Members Share Posted February 23, 2016 Outstanding! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vonrang Posted February 23, 2016 Author Members Share Posted February 23, 2016 I made a somewhat unfortunate discovery that the middle SD Vintage Rails pickup (four wire) is comprised of two side-by-side coils. When I use my three-way mini toggle for the split coil function, I lose the right side of the pickup, thus knocking out E, B, G. 8^{[. I will swap this pickup out for another SD Hot Rails neck pickup and install the SD Vintage Rails in my Line6 JTV69 (The doner for replacement SD Hot Rails neck pickup). The SD Vintage Rails will be right at home in the JTV69 as this is a two wire style hook up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Zoobiedood Posted February 24, 2016 Members Share Posted February 24, 2016 The Vintage Rails is normally wired in parallel. The other wires are for series operation, which is more power, with thicker mids and lows. If you wire it to split, it will cut half of it off, like you found out. If you wire the switch to select series, then you get the more powerful, humbucker sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vonrang Posted August 26, 2016 Author Members Share Posted August 26, 2016 Finally got around to recording the Surf's Up Stratocaster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mikeo Posted August 26, 2016 Members Share Posted August 26, 2016 That is a pretty cool strat build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vonrang Posted September 12, 2016 Author Members Share Posted September 12, 2016 Finally got around to recording the Surf's Up Stratocaster https://www.dropbox.com/s/6bj46wlf058q4hu/20160814_074647.mp4?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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