Should be a nice product when you’re finished. This project caught my attention because I have a late ‘80s Fender Strat HM. It has HSS pickup configuration, Floyd Rose Tremolo, 24 Frets
That's pretty cool, you are building the first version with the neck that was basically a strat neck which Kramer was forced to modify by Fender so they chopped off the bottom of the headstock. My first "real guitar" was a Kramer Pacer Deluxe red with black pickguard rosewood fretboard which I bought brand new in 1984 I think. I had the hockey stick headstock, and the Floyd Rose, tuners and output jack was black. A few notes. The Pacer line consisted of the Pacer Barretta which had one humbucker, the Pacer Imperial which had no pickguard and 2 humbuckers and the Pacer Deluxe had a strat style pickguard HSS. On gigging and tuning, the F.R. system was nice because it had the locking nut and fine tuners so it stayed in tune pretty well but. the problem was that you will many times end up bottoming out your fine tuners and in order to tune up you have to unlock, recenter your fine tuners , tune up and relock more frequently than you really want to, especially if you are at a gig and the heat from the lights cause you to go out , you only have so much travel and your fine tuner(s) bottoms out. then you are back to unlock etc. I wasn't a huge whammy bar guy and I got so sick of the locking nut, so I switched to vintage style set ups. Plus, when you pop a string on a regular guitar you can finish the song and swap guitars, if you pop a string with a F.R. the whole guitar goes way out of tune, so you are screwed. That said they are fun and have their place but if you are gigging you better have a good guitar tech to swap you out if you bottom out or pop. Good luck with your build.
Had he not already ordered the neck with the locking nut shelf i would have suggested a normal well cut bone nut, with a bunch of lube it stays in tune just fine. Especially with a decked floyd.
What did theat neck set you back for? Its a beautiful rendition of what you had in mind. I have sorta the same taste. I hqve my lineups but i love to customize the snot out of stratocasters. I make any Fender better than a player or even a plus. My Birdseye Maple neck is from a fender arrowhead starcaster 05. When i got it i didnt know what that was but as i researched, i realized what it was and that the shatoyance was not showing due to a poor finish so i sanded it all back qnd did a beautiful danish oil finish with a shelack protection. Its a Tom DeLong style with my own name on it. I sold it and it actually came back a year later. I think i have a short video up. 😊also, i did an SE Squier that is basically a fender stratocaster incognito 😂. I slapped some old alnico pickups in the neck and middle and a humbucker blade style in the bridge. It was in really horrible unavailable condition when i got it. The neck was slightly twisted, the neck cavity was cut up bqd, the bridge cavity was mangled too. I found a neat fact about the guitar, it was made by Axl. And has a veneer so i did a relic job to see what i could unveil. I even restored the pickguard after it was painted, put an old crl 5 way from the 70s qnd did a double stack like yours for the 2505 500k benefit and wow, this thing is a serious sleeper. It has nice locking tuners as well from hipshot. Oh, and cloth covered wiring with a sweet capacitor and tonw bleed. He really cool thing is, when you go from nine to ten on the volume, it jumps to like a 14. Lol 😆 😅
Good idea. I'll have to do that tomorrow if I have sometime. I got 90% of the parts from Sweetwater, Stewmac, and Reverb. Body from Butala Custom Guitars and neck from Musikraft.
I know what you mean by rabbit hole. The numbers is a more reliable system than names since some numbered fret sizes share names or even have multiple different names. These frets are 7105. 6105 is regular “medium” size, but the 7 denotes the stainless option. Thanks for your interest
Nice, but if you put a Floyd on but dont recess underneath it then you'll only be able to pull up a major third or a fourth at most. If you recess it then you ought to be able to pullup a sharp 5th. This is why Ibanez make the best superstrats and not Charvel or anyone else
I like the Floyd being flush mount to the body. All the strings stay in tune when I bend, and also if I break a string the other ones stay in tune. Also vibrations transfer better when the bridge plate is making contact to the body
Not sure but it’s definitely a mess. I think there’s a lot happening and complexity behind the super switch so that positions 2 and 4 are not “quad buckers.” Since they’re all technically humbuckers, it probably splits them. It did not come with a wiring diagram I am just guessing. I may be rewiring the entire thing and just using it for parts after I try it out.
Nice! Always great to see a youngster try his hand at building a rat rod. Its a great learning process.
I had an 84 pacer deluxe that looked just like that, red body, black pickguard HSS with mini toggle. It was my first guitar, bought in the early 90's.
Should be a nice product when you’re finished.
This project caught my attention because I have a late ‘80s Fender Strat HM. It has HSS pickup configuration, Floyd Rose Tremolo, 24 Frets
Excellent video
That's pretty cool, you are building the first version with the neck that was basically a strat neck which Kramer was forced to modify by Fender so they chopped off the bottom of the headstock. My first "real guitar" was a Kramer Pacer Deluxe red with black pickguard rosewood fretboard which I bought brand new in 1984 I think. I had the hockey stick headstock, and the Floyd Rose, tuners and output jack was black. A few notes. The Pacer line consisted of the Pacer Barretta which had one humbucker, the Pacer Imperial which had no pickguard and 2 humbuckers and the Pacer Deluxe had a strat style pickguard HSS. On gigging and tuning, the F.R. system was nice because it had the locking nut and fine tuners so it stayed in tune pretty well but. the problem was that you will many times end up bottoming out your fine tuners and in order to tune up you have to unlock, recenter your fine tuners , tune up and relock more frequently than you really want to, especially if you are at a gig and the heat from the lights cause you to go out , you only have so much travel and your fine tuner(s) bottoms out. then you are back to unlock etc. I wasn't a huge whammy bar guy and I got so sick of the locking nut, so I switched to vintage style set ups. Plus, when you pop a string on a regular guitar you can finish the song and swap guitars, if you pop a string with a F.R. the whole guitar goes way out of tune, so you are screwed. That said they are fun and have their place but if you are gigging you better have a good guitar tech to swap you out if you bottom out or pop. Good luck with your build.
Had he not already ordered the neck with the locking nut shelf i would have suggested a normal well cut bone nut, with a bunch of lube it stays in tune just fine. Especially with a decked floyd.
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And my 86 bullet 1 haz a wizzard thin neck. Juat amazing to feel a Squier with a neck that thin.
What did theat neck set you back for? Its a beautiful rendition of what you had in mind. I have sorta the same taste. I hqve my lineups but i love to customize the snot out of stratocasters. I make any Fender better than a player or even a plus. My Birdseye Maple neck is from a fender arrowhead starcaster 05. When i got it i didnt know what that was but as i researched, i realized what it was and that the shatoyance was not showing due to a poor finish so i sanded it all back qnd did a beautiful danish oil finish with a shelack protection. Its a Tom DeLong style with my own name on it. I sold it and it actually came back a year later. I think i have a short video up. 😊also, i did an SE Squier that is basically a fender stratocaster incognito 😂. I slapped some old alnico pickups in the neck and middle and a humbucker blade style in the bridge. It was in really horrible unavailable condition when i got it. The neck was slightly twisted, the neck cavity was cut up bqd, the bridge cavity was mangled too. I found a neat fact about the guitar, it was made by Axl. And has a veneer so i did a relic job to see what i could unveil. I even restored the pickguard after it was painted, put an old crl 5 way from the 70s qnd did a double stack like yours for the 2505 500k benefit and wow, this thing is a serious sleeper. It has nice locking tuners as well from hipshot. Oh, and cloth covered wiring with a sweet capacitor and tonw bleed. He really cool thing is, when you go from nine to ten on the volume, it jumps to like a 14. Lol 😆 😅
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Nice video. Links to the part suppliers?
Good idea. I'll have to do that tomorrow if I have sometime. I got 90% of the parts from Sweetwater, Stewmac, and Reverb. Body from Butala Custom Guitars and neck from Musikraft.
@@jacob_zangholy shit how did you get 90% off???
@@BoazWainscott 90% of the parts were bought from those sellers at retail price
Jake…would happen to know the number/size of the frets on that Musikraft neck??…fret size is a rabbit hole for me!!
I know what you mean by rabbit hole. The numbers is a more reliable system than names since some numbered fret sizes share names or even have multiple different names. These frets are 7105. 6105 is regular “medium” size, but the 7 denotes the stainless option. Thanks for your interest
Nice, but if you put a Floyd on but dont recess underneath it then you'll only be able to pull up a major third or a fourth at most. If you recess it then you ought to be able to pullup a sharp 5th. This is why Ibanez make the best superstrats and not Charvel or anyone else
I like the Floyd being flush mount to the body. All the strings stay in tune when I bend, and also if I break a string the other ones stay in tune. Also vibrations transfer better when the bridge plate is making contact to the body
@@jacob_zang…agreed…having both, I prefer the flush mount👍
Who wired that rat's nest? Lol
Not sure but it’s definitely a mess. I think there’s a lot happening and complexity behind the super switch so that positions 2 and 4 are not “quad buckers.” Since they’re all technically humbuckers, it probably splits them. It did not come with a wiring diagram I am just guessing. I may be rewiring the entire thing and just using it for parts after I try it out.
@@jacob_zang I would definitely not trust that wiring job.