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- - - - - - - - 1990s '62 REISSUE MIJ FENDER STRATOCASTER - - - - - - - - May 2017: Fairly rare Ocean Turquoise Metallic but neither my phone camera or my Canon EOS 70D just won't capture its greenish tinge. 7.25" neck radius - my perfect neck. Arrived in bits so needs tweaking, cleaning and assembling.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bridge swapped for Super Vee Bladerunner. Drops straight in. Stays in tune even with heavy whammy use. My #1 fave strat bridge.

 

Texas Special bridge pickup replaced with Seymour Duncan Hot Rails SH1b humbucker:

 

Nope... I'd forgotten now noisy Texas Specials are. Great live, terrible in the studio. Plan B: Rip the Vintage Noiseless pups from pearly:

 

 

0000 steel wool on back of neck to turn it from sticky glossy to silky fast. Knobs swapped for lighter cream that matches the newer pickups:

 

Bridge and mid balance wasn't right so went for all three Fender Vintage Noiseless pickups - sounds awesome

 

NEXT TWEAK - SEPTEMBER 2017:

Slight reshape of the tremolo cavity next to the springs to allow the trem to be pulled higher without the block hitting the body

 

 

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