The Creation of Frank

This blog has been created to follow the progress of upgrading my 50s Reissue Fender Stratocaster. When I bought the guitar (used) for £280 it was completely stock. My aim was to spend around a further £400 to turn it into a Strat that could stand up against any out there....It's also proved to be a great learning exercise in guitar DIY. To see what happened and in what order, start at the bottom of the page.

Friday, March 24, 2006

Moving to the Darkside

Well, after years of disliking Strats in favour of humbucking guitars, I've finally succumbed to the idea that a mid-priced Strat would be a good idea for numerous reasons:

a) It'll provide a good base to learn about guitar DIY and to act as an upgrade project.
b) If it's awful, I can probably sell it again without having spent much.
c) It seems that nearly all of my favourite guitarists and sounds are Strat players...Eric Johnson, Carl Verheyen etc...

If money was no object, I'd plump for the Eric Johnson signature. However, this comes in at around £1600 and I'd still want to perform some upgrades to it such as locking tuners, and probably swap out the pickups.

So, what follows is my progress with the upgrades. I'm not sure how it'll go at the moment. My current main guitar is a USA Peavey Wolfgang Standard Deluxe, and I've always considered this to be the ultimate electric for me. Ultimately I'd like to build the Strat up to a point where it can become my number one electric.

Stay tuned....

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