Silly things to do with Stratocasters on a Sunday

[p4ul]

Encore 1980's Red Copycaster. It was sitting there mocking me, with 2 to many strings on it. And so I decided to free it from guitar land.
Snagged some hardwear from @Jabba_the_gut on here [thank you] and set to work ruining fixing the Bass Guitar.

My luthier skills are more akin to shed building, but I was determined to make a playable shorty for grins.
It plays "ok" and sounds like a weird strat, you can't dig in much, but for noodling at the open mic it works fine.
intonation was a chore, and whoever designed those bridge saddles needs shooting, they look the part, but eff me! setting them up was madness 🫠.

Cut out the body to get to the truss rod, who wants to take the bloody neck of to do that? idiots.

Big Hole where the wammy bar used to live, filled that up with real wood.
The Fat Strat and the Quarter Pounder pups sound pretty decent actually.

Its gonna need a string tree and the nut needs sorting, but I an happy and thats what counts. 😀

  

  

There, all better now, hanging out with it's mate.

 

 

 

Then I decided I was 19 again.

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by p4ul
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