A makeover for my 1986 USA Stratocaster

[Blazer]

"Shelby" is gonna get a treatment

Here's the way the guitar currently looks.


and here's the way I'm gonna make it look.


That's right I'm going for a Brad Gillis/Allan Holdsworth look here. I already bought a Dimarzio "fred" pickup that will be in this bad girl.

[shreder13]

Are you gonna paint it?

[MartinBarre]

I prefer the way it is. Keep the three pickups.

[thetroy]

Whoa did Holdsworth really play a single hum guitar?

[Super_shredder]

are you going to buy a new neck?
also didnt brad gillis only use V-trems?

[sonicsamurai]

you only just painted it recently, tho i admit i'm not a fan of the stripe, but the three singlecoil look is good....

and yes troy, he always plays single hums, ha a red/black charvel siggy, now uses crvins mostly, single hum, vintage/wilkinson trem

supershgredder, gillis uses an older floyd i think withought the fine tuners at the bridge or summin, but def an early floyd

[Super_shredder]

ok my mistake

[Blazer]

Brad Gillis' old modified Strat with fine tuners-less first version Floyd Rose.



A Fernandez Brad Gillis Signature Model.


Allan Holdsworth Playing his Red Charvel



An Ibanez Allan Holdsworth Signature model

[Super_shredder]

i like stripes on guitar usually but witrh the pickguard over the top it looks wrong to me . It will look better red but bloody hell keep the maple fretboard

[Robert Burns]

I would at least go with a black headstock? Go for it!

[Norton]

Are you gonna paint the fretboard,brown?

[Blazer]

No I already got a replacement neck ready for it, an eighties Fender japan neck with a rosewood board.

[Norton]

The neck's just fine. Don't change the neck. If you change it, we ,MCRBH, the Mighty Confederation of Rosewood Board Haters, will flame you.

[Blazer]

I'm sure if you guys FELT how crappy this maple neck plays, you'd agree with me on changing it out.

[shreder13]

i like stripes on guitar usually but witrh the pickguard over the top it looks wrong to me . It will look better red but bloody hell keep the maple fretboard

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