ex-mixer

A late 60s strat that I modified for two Gibson humbuckers in 1970. Back then, no one was making third party pickguards so I had a friend who worked at CIBA-GEIGY pick me up a white piece of scrap material that I could template as needed. Turns out, it was pure 1/8" teflon... back then it was probably worth more than the entire guitar. All my buddies thought I was nuts, but I loved the strat body and Gibson sound. I used my Dad's super set of wood chisels to hand route out space for the larger pickups, but one thing that I didn't realize was, the teflon was not entirely opaque and you could still see the space where the center single coil went. I sold it when going to college in Dallas, probably to make rent or possibly for food. Definitely wish I had it back... I put a lot of sweat equity in that axe. BTW, I still have that hand-tooled, weed-inspired leather strap.