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Yesterday I was over at a friend's when I saw the unmistakable headstock shape of a strat burried beneath some boxes and some other Jargon, I cleared it away and out came the carcass of a late eighties Squier Strat, the hardware had been (badly) spraypainted gold and the body had recieved multiple layers of metallic purple. I asked the guy what was up with that one and he said that it was a project guitar that he never found the time to finish, he dubbed it the "purple nurple" because it had been a pain for so long.
So I offered to buy it from him, he agreed and promptly handed me a box containing a black pickguard and pickups that had thick (and I'm talking about industrial size) electrical wires coming from them.
So when I got home I took all the parts off and gave them a paint thinner treatment, except for the tuners which are the real deal, no gold spray paint on those: genuine goldplated Gotoh's. After cleaning the parts up I decided to assemble it, I decided to ditch the black pickguard in favor of a vintage mint pickguard and when testing revealed that the pickups were dead as a doornail, I decided to ditch those too. I wired it all up to a five way switch and a master volume (I never use tone anyway)
The pictures make my guitar look blue but it's really a Prince-approved heu of Purple.
THIS kind of purple.
So I offered to buy it from him, he agreed and promptly handed me a box containing a black pickguard and pickups that had thick (and I'm talking about industrial size) electrical wires coming from them.
So when I got home I took all the parts off and gave them a paint thinner treatment, except for the tuners which are the real deal, no gold spray paint on those: genuine goldplated Gotoh's. After cleaning the parts up I decided to assemble it, I decided to ditch the black pickguard in favor of a vintage mint pickguard and when testing revealed that the pickups were dead as a doornail, I decided to ditch those too. I wired it all up to a five way switch and a master volume (I never use tone anyway)
The pictures make my guitar look blue but it's really a Prince-approved heu of Purple.
THIS kind of purple.
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