11-25-2014, 10:27 PM
Past 6 months I've been gassing for a lot or random shit.
bought the east river drive, bought the showmaster, traded my squier for a blackstar and marshall cab, bought an eminence speaker for said cab, bought more magnets (not significant, but it counts as a GAS-related acquisition, tonehunting and all).
Well now that I have 3 amazing axes (the Jolly Roger, the Polaris and the Showmaster), I feel the need to revamp my '62RI strat.
It was my first electric guitar and it's unlikely that I'll ever sell it, so I was toying with the idea of converting it to an HH configuration/double fat strat, and also get a new neck for it as well, with a flatter radius and bigger frets, maybe a maple fretboard. It currently has a 7.25" radius, 6230 frets (which are friggin TINY if you've never played em), and a rosewood fretboard which I like but is rather soft on the attack). I'd need to hog out some wood for the humbucker pickup routes, which would be a nuisance but not totally out of the realm of possibility.
Haven't decided on the pickups yet, but I'm trying to figure out a look for the guitar and having a real hard time of it.
Here's the subject:
![[Image: 2f88cab3-868e-4251-b4f3-0fddbd7e1291_zpsfc017635.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/blackwater/2f88cab3-868e-4251-b4f3-0fddbd7e1291_zpsfc017635.jpg)
Not sure if I should stick with a black p/g or go back to a stock look of the white pickguard (which I was never really a fan of). Also the look of the pickups is another thing I can't really decide on. double black? zebra? nickel covers? double cream (would be a bitch to find ANY pickups aside from dimarzio in double cream but presumably some UK and overseas companies can do it...)
Need suggestions here people.
bought the east river drive, bought the showmaster, traded my squier for a blackstar and marshall cab, bought an eminence speaker for said cab, bought more magnets (not significant, but it counts as a GAS-related acquisition, tonehunting and all).
Well now that I have 3 amazing axes (the Jolly Roger, the Polaris and the Showmaster), I feel the need to revamp my '62RI strat.
It was my first electric guitar and it's unlikely that I'll ever sell it, so I was toying with the idea of converting it to an HH configuration/double fat strat, and also get a new neck for it as well, with a flatter radius and bigger frets, maybe a maple fretboard. It currently has a 7.25" radius, 6230 frets (which are friggin TINY if you've never played em), and a rosewood fretboard which I like but is rather soft on the attack). I'd need to hog out some wood for the humbucker pickup routes, which would be a nuisance but not totally out of the realm of possibility.
Haven't decided on the pickups yet, but I'm trying to figure out a look for the guitar and having a real hard time of it.
Here's the subject:
Not sure if I should stick with a black p/g or go back to a stock look of the white pickguard (which I was never really a fan of). Also the look of the pickups is another thing I can't really decide on. double black? zebra? nickel covers? double cream (would be a bitch to find ANY pickups aside from dimarzio in double cream but presumably some UK and overseas companies can do it...)
Need suggestions here people.