From: Bdale Garbee Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 00:09:07 +0000 (-0700) Subject: guitar build project beginnings X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?p=web%2Fgag.com;a=commitdiff_plain;h=ed3050e684d3633a193468480147fffbdf7046c7 guitar build project beginnings --- diff --git a/music/guitars/bdale-1/index.mdwn b/music/guitars/bdale-1/index.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..24c0ea2 --- /dev/null +++ b/music/guitars/bdale-1/index.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +# 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! diff --git a/music/guitars/index.mdwn b/music/guitars/index.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ac27ced --- /dev/null +++ b/music/guitars/index.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Guitars # + +* [Bdale's Custom "Strat" Clone](bdale-1/) + diff --git a/music/index.mdwn b/music/index.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f361d8d --- /dev/null +++ b/music/index.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +# Music + +Among other things, we like music. Listening to it is cool, but playing it +is better! + +# [Guitars](guitars/) # +