Strat Abuse - What should I do with this guitar?
Posted: Fri May 11, 2018 3:38 pm
I picked up this Squier Standard a while back for $50
Neck was dirty (grime and edged) so I filed the burs on the fret ends, and cleaned it up real good. The selector switch is finicky...I still need to fix that, and give it a set-up. Action is quite high.
At some point I decided to start cutting and sanding parts off (maybe a mistake, but whatever, I got bored)...Can't decide where to go from here. Tempted to pull some meat off the lower horn to go with the upper. Might leave the, "well past relic'd and I'm too lazy to finish it" motif...or commit and give it a color stain or something...
Thoughts on that pick guard? Leave the blinding mirror, replace with a diff color, or cover in cool stickers?...I'm leaning towards stickers.
...Kind of want to build a circuit into it, or do some weird pickup stuff
ps. chiseling that finish doesn't work very well
Neck was dirty (grime and edged) so I filed the burs on the fret ends, and cleaned it up real good. The selector switch is finicky...I still need to fix that, and give it a set-up. Action is quite high.
At some point I decided to start cutting and sanding parts off (maybe a mistake, but whatever, I got bored)...Can't decide where to go from here. Tempted to pull some meat off the lower horn to go with the upper. Might leave the, "well past relic'd and I'm too lazy to finish it" motif...or commit and give it a color stain or something...
Thoughts on that pick guard? Leave the blinding mirror, replace with a diff color, or cover in cool stickers?...I'm leaning towards stickers.
...Kind of want to build a circuit into it, or do some weird pickup stuff
ps. chiseling that finish doesn't work very well