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Project 0001 - #1


As mentioned a while ago, I’m collating the parts to assemble a copy of a Fender Stratocaster; specifically a copy of David Gilmour’s (Pink Floyd) 1954 Strat with the serial number 0001. Huge tracts of information exist on this guitar, so I won’t go into details on the original - suffice to say that [...]

Strat me up…


No, that’s not a typo, honest.
There’s been quite a bit of discussion over on UKMG recently about building/assembling/customising Fender Stratocasters (or copies thereof), and it’s fired my enthusiasm for finishing something I started a while back - something like this:

Oops, I did it again…


…I’ve just won a(nother) guitar body on eBay.
This time, it’s a strat copy - a bit battered but a prime candidate for one of my next projects - a close copy of David Gilmour’s ‘54 “0001″ Strat.
It’s not going to be a completely historically-correct copy, and I certainly won’t be putting a bootleg decal on [...]