A squire showmaster, it's all pointy and reverse head-stocky and I think this ones going to need a floyd rose fitting! So black floyd or chrome? (the finish will not be staying black or at least not the current black!)
Last year i bought, from eBay, a 'project' guitar.
That is a guitar that has seen better times in need of some improving.
The one I bought was a Squire Stratocaster, that had been poorly refinished in a very vibrant yellow.
When it arrived I was not expecting much, the yellow was indeed lurid, but much to my surprise it played fairly well, so well in fact that i took it with me to my local open mic night.
I also replaced the nut with a graphite one, leveled, dressed, and polished the frets, lightly sanded the back of the neck, refitted the neck- (sorting out the pitch whilst i was at it). On the electronics front, i replaced the pick ups with some hand wound high out-put ones i found on eBay, and rewired the whole thing, including a chromecaster style selector in place of the second tone pot (I say chromecaster style, as, whilst mine does the same job, I can't guarantee its exactly the same - I reverse engineered the chrome caster based on the instillation instructions and the out put switching tables).
To fit the chromecaster i first had to remove a little material from the control cavity- i added copper earthing tape to the cavety whilst i was there!
Finally, on a cosmetic whim i swapped the original single ply white pick guard for a 3 ply black one.
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(how many posterous first posts are titled first post?)
I am planning on using posterous as a back end blogging platform, then pulling it to my own domain along with other things (like twitter flickr and all that marlarkee).
But for now this will just be a test post, in which I might include a picture, probably of a guitar-thing, lets have a muff!
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