This guitar is built with a super strat setup but in a dressed up package. It has an excellent pair of single coil strat pickups and vintage voiced PAF style humbucker, complemented by a great modern strat style tremelo.

 

The finish I used on this is hand rubbed Tru Oil. This is a wipe on varnish that is similar to Tung Oil, but it goes on a bit thicker and fills the wood pores more. It results in the same elegant satin finish that I achieve with hand rubbed Tung Oil.

 

The two single coil pickups are Torres "Very Vintage". These pickups have all the clarity and chime you want from a vintage strat. The neck pickup is a Seymore Duncan '59 Trembucker. This is a PAF style humbucker that blends well with the single coils but still has enough grind to belt out a blues solo. The controls are five way pickup switch, volume and separate tone controls for the single coils and humbucker.

 

I used a Wilkinson trem. It operates very smoothly; the arm fits into an adjustable Delrin sleeve that allows the arm to stay in place much better than the standard threaded variety. I replaced the saddles with GraphTech String Savers so that intomantion is maintained when the

 

The body is made from light weight Spanish cedar with figured maple caps. The neck is maple with a rosewood fingerboard. I think the two tone body has a great look that carries an updated vintage vibe (think two-tone Chevy). The black veneer under the top and back caps provide striking highlights that tie into the black pickup covers. The highly figured quilted maple top and back caps make this guitar a real beauty. It looks as good as it sounds.

trem is used. This is the first time I have used this trem, but plan to use it again in the future.

 

One last thing that you might notice. This is a bolt on neck, but it only has two bolts. I have used four bolt necks as a nod to tradition (hello Fender), but two looks simpler (more elegant) and is more than sufficient; the bolts are not stressed to any where near there limit. Trust me; I am a mechanical engineer. If two bolts are OK for acoustic neck joints, where the forces are quite a bit higher, it will work on an electric.