Strat Upgrade
My Squier Strat, needs some upgrading. Please excuse the dust, it hasn't been played in a while:
New parts: maple neck, gold plated neck plate, gold plated neck anchor screws, gold plated strap buttons and gold plated string guides:
B string was playing horribly out of tune, the culprit is a broken nut:
Test fit the neck with the neck pocket, seems pretty good:
Stripping the machine heads and string guides from the headstock:
New gold plated strap buttons:
Stripping down the bridge for cleaning:
Drilling the machine head holes:
Clamping the neck to the body before tapping:
Neck screwed in:
Installing the string guides: Does anybody know where I can find gold plated string guide screws? I'm reusing the chrome ones and it looks a bit odd...
Installing the machine heads: (Maybe a gold plated set in the future!)
Headstock complete:
Old strap buttons:
Strung with 9s before a setup:
Next phase is to upgrade the bridge with a gold plated Gotoh!
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