guitar build project beginnings

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+# Bdale's Custom Build of a Fender Stratocaster Clone #
+
+For Christmas 2014, Robert and Elizabeth bought Bdale a beginner's guitar
+book, and Robert offered to help with a guitar build project based on the
+success of his Telecaster build.  This is the resulting project, Bdale's 
+first guitar, started in February of 2015!
+
+After a lot of reading and listening, a few core decisions got things rolling:
+
+* build a "clone" of a hard-tail Fender Stratocaster (no tremolo)
+* body and neck to be near-natural wood color with satin finish
+* no pickguard (maximum exposed wood grain, rear control cavities
+* pickups and all hardware in black
+* standard strat-like 3-pickup, 1 volume, 2 tone design with 5-way selector
+* noise-reduced pickups
+
+We had a "spare" blank in alder big enough to machine the body, left over
+from Robert's Telecaster project.  So the plan was to machine a custom body
+and buy the rest of the parts from various sources.
+
+Another intense period of study led to the decision to use 
+[DiMarzio](http://dimarzio.com) Area pickups.  These are stacked-coil hum
+reducing pickups in the standard strat single-coil pickup form factor.  The 
+chosen "standard" set consists of:
+
+* [Area 58](http://dimarzio.com/pickups/strat/hum-canceling-strat/area-58)
+  for the neck position
+* [Area 67](http://dimarzio.com/pickups/strat/hum-canceling-strat/area-67)
+  for the middle position
+* [Area 61](http://dimarzio.com/pickups/strat/hum-canceling-strat/area-61)
+  for the bridge position
+
+The rest of the parts were mostly obtained from 
+[Guitar Fetish](http://www.guitarfetish.com/), with the exception of a nicer
+[hard-tail bridge](http://guitarheads.net/products/bridges/hardtailrear.html)
+sourced from [GuitarHeads.Net](http://guitarheads.net), and a 22-fret natural
+Canadian maple neck purchased from eBay seller "bluelink88".
+
+More to come!

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+# Guitars #
+
+* [Bdale's Custom "Strat" Clone](bdale-1/)
+

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+# Music
+
+Among other things, we like music.  Listening to it is cool, but playing it
+is better!
+
+# [Guitars](guitars/) #
+