Members heem6 Posted April 1, 2010 Members Share Posted April 1, 2010 Hi All, Over the last couple of months I've been building this guitar out of parts. I originally got the neck from a guy on another forum who had attempted to make the body into a hardtail. The neck was in great shape though, so I just leveled, crowned and dressed the frets and sanded off the finish and applied a tung-oil finish instead. I got the body on eBay for $50. It's new/old stock and was never used. I think Fender probably gave it away because it had some overspray by the neck pocket. That cleaned up easily with some Maguire's Scratch X. I had a spare Kahler Spyder laying around, so I disassembled, cleaned and oiled it. I put in an original DiMarzio Super 3 in the bridge, and two Lace Holy Grail single coils in the neck and middle. I wired it up stock with two TBX's, but modded the TBX's to open it up a little bit - with a 220k resistor instead of the 82k resistor they come with. Sounds great and plays nicely. The Lace's aren't exact reproductions of 50's single coils, rather they are rounder somehow, like the old Charvel single coils from the 80's and sound great with no noise. I've heard them described as idealized fender single coils and I would agree. Anyway, it's all done except for tweaking, hope you enjoy the pictures! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ElectricEye Posted April 1, 2010 Members Share Posted April 1, 2010 Great job! I'm not a fan of the way they painted those headstocks, but this is still a beauty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bsman Posted April 1, 2010 Members Share Posted April 1, 2010 Not the biggest fan of the hairband superstrat thing, but yours is one of the finer examples. Love the black HW... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lewzer Posted April 1, 2010 Members Share Posted April 1, 2010 Very nice HM Strat! I have one that's much uglier than yours, but still it's a awesome playing/sounding guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members newbuilder Posted April 1, 2010 Members Share Posted April 1, 2010 That is sooooo clean! You made that look like it just came off the lot. Great job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Selsaral Posted April 1, 2010 Members Share Posted April 1, 2010 Wow looks great, you really know what you're doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brian Krashpad Posted April 1, 2010 Members Share Posted April 1, 2010 Congrats! (o)(o) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Woody_in_MN Posted April 1, 2010 Members Share Posted April 1, 2010 Looks beautiful. 3 paws up from Lamb Chop. - w Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Electric Monk Posted April 1, 2010 Members Share Posted April 1, 2010 Looks fantastic. Except the headstock, the HM Strat headstocks scream '80's' in the worst way possible to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GreaserMatt Posted April 1, 2010 Members Share Posted April 1, 2010 A shredmaster w/out a pointy headstock; I love it... the dog's cool too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members heem6 Posted April 2, 2010 Author Members Share Posted April 2, 2010 Thanks, everybody. I appreciate the kind words! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TomCray Posted April 2, 2010 Members Share Posted April 2, 2010 Looks great! Where'd you get those knobs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members heem6 Posted April 2, 2010 Author Members Share Posted April 2, 2010 I have a couple other HM Strats and had replaced their knobs with black tele styles, so had these laying around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DonP Posted April 2, 2010 Members Share Posted April 2, 2010 Looks good. I haven't finished rebuilding mine because I like playing it too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wedgehed II Posted April 3, 2010 Members Share Posted April 3, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mesa/Kramer Posted April 4, 2010 Members Share Posted April 4, 2010 Love me some HM Strats. Here's mine I refinished, upgraded Pickups etc. Love your HM Strat site also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members heem6 Posted April 4, 2010 Author Members Share Posted April 4, 2010 Great shape and looks killer! What pickups do you have in it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mesa/Kramer Posted April 4, 2010 Members Share Posted April 4, 2010 Great shape and looks killer! What pickups do you have in it? I have a Dimarzio D activator in the bridge.I may try something different down the road.Looking for somthing a bit more open. In the neck I have a Bill Lawerence (OBL) Twin blade humbucking/Single coil that is one of my favorite pickups in any of my guitars. The Middle is stock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members k_strat Posted April 4, 2010 Members Share Posted April 4, 2010 Wow! Nice work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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