Project Dave Murray-ish Strat PICS

[slayer]

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Very cool [img]graemlins/toast.gif[/img] Jack.

[InFlamed666]

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Yeah that ebay guys had that up 2 times now, it didnt sell the 1st time... i wonder why hehe

[Number Of The Priest]

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'Cause it's a freaking Squier. [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] I don't care if Dave Murray's semen is mixed in with the paint... it's still a Squier. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]

No, seriously, that Fender trem worries me. I don't know what it's like or how it plays, and I've only ever seen it on those Fender Performers (or whatever they were called).

[Dreamland_Rebel]

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pretty close and looks beautiful

dave has a blade switch and a single coil in the middle.

probably an hs2 but not sure.

great job though
~JW

[Dreamland_Rebel]

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oh yeah and a chrome floyd

[hottoddy]

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Very nice! And for the record, Davey did play some H-H configured Fender strats, but the black and white one he got photographed most with in the 80s was H-S-H. Now he plays single coil hot-rails and it just doesn't look right. Only Adrian is still rocking with a real humbucker in the bridge.

[Jerry From Ghana]

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that squier murray is freaking perfect for a maiden cover band.

[Flatpicker]

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Do the hot rails capture the early 80's sound from the albums? I'm looking for more "The Number of the Beast" sound and don't want rout for a HB in the bridge.

[Chuckracer]

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Stutka, that's hot. I love it! Not really a Maiden freak, but my first strat was '74, black w/white guard, maple board. The neck warped and twisted on it bad enough that I gave it to a kid down the street who thought it was cool anyway!

[hottoddy]

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Originally posted by Flatpicker:
Do the hot rails capture the early 80's sound from the albums? I'm looking for more "The Number of the Beast" sound and don't want rout for a HB in the bridge.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">They work, but Hot Rails tend to be a bit harsh in the bridge position. You might look into a Seymour Duncan JB Jr, or the Tone Zone S (which is newer but getting good reviews).

[Plazmawine]

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Rumor has it that Murray's 57 Strat was previously owned by Paul Kossof of Free.
From all the video and photograph footage of the guitar, it always had H-S-H pups, Dimarzio Super Distortions both neck and bridge, and I think the middle single coil was a dummy pickup. As a matter of fact, the bridge humbucker was angled during the early years (iron maiden and killers era) and was straightened around NOTB. The guitar was equipped with a vintage style trem, but after looking at a picture of the guitar from the Powerslave tour, it looked as if it had another trem and a locking nut, definitely not a Kahler (his 62 black strat had a Kahler with the same pickups, this strat had a the rosewood board) but maybe an early Floyd Rose or a Rockinger? The tremolo bar appearred to be longer than the typical vintage trem arm.

Anyone have any input on this?