Spondylitis Association of America Forums General Discussion Off-Topic Forum Rebuilding my Strat

Rob here's a cool site about Sonny Landreth.

http://www.sonnylandreth.com

A friend told me he found an old double album from 1978 that had Claptons back up band with Leon Russell, JJ Cale, and Sonny at 20 years old playing on the album...Sonny had already developed his style of slide playing by then. Wish I had known about him then. Best slide player I've heard.

Ahhh. She's coming together! The worst part is over - I've cleared the wetsanding hurdle... The scariest part is the first couple of grades of sandpaper - 400 and 600. After that, the sandpaper grades just polish, and remove little actual material, so I don't need to worry anymore about sanding through the finish. I got interrupted mid-job and had to quit for the night, but not before I got a wicked mirror shine on the neck and all the neck parts (tuners, bushings, nut, & string tree) installed. Just a few more passes on the body and it will have that mirror shine too! I anticipate no problems, and the Lady should be fully assembled and set up by this time tomorrow. It's coming along beautifully - the color is exactly what I'd hoped for, a rich royal blue, and the finish is super thin, somewhere around .005" thick. Stay tuned for pics and sound files ASAP!

Rob

TA DA! Put your hands together, ladies and gentlemen, for, "THE LADY" (applause, the crowd goes wild!)







She turned out just beautifully, as I had hoped, and she sounds even better! The Humbucker is split (via the mini-toggles) and can be setup as 2 single coils (out of phase) and she can go from sizzling heavy metal to quacking like a country duck. (wack wack) I'm just pleased as hell, I gotta tell ya. Now I've got the fever - I can't wait to start on my next project! (As soon as I recover, financially, from this one, ha ha)
I'll record some sound files this weekend and post them as soon as I can figure out how. (If anyone has any suggestions about this, let me know - I'm not sure how to do that, yet)

Rob

Hey congrats! She sure turned out nice Rob! You did a real fine job! I'll bet it was fun to plug in for the first time. No doubt a major difference in sound with the new pups. I wish I knew how to post sound files on here, but posting links is about all I know how to do. Hopefully someone will chime in here that has some tips on how to get that up and running. I hope you can get the sound files hooked up on here soon, would sure love to hear her sound.

....Really beautiful shade of blue and love those mini toggles! Everything really turned out super fine. Looking forward to hearing the Vox also...I can tell it cranks!
Nice to see shes all finished now.
Cool stuff!

Here's a link to my 'band' website (actually it's just me and my bass player), but I did post one song we did a few years ago, and it is my strat, but before I rebuilt her. She sounds good in this song, but even better now... I'm going to re-record the guitar tracks and upload it to the site soon, so you can hear the difference between then and now. Tell me what you think!
Rob\'s Music Site

It's a rough recording, instrumental only (no vocals or guitar solos), but I had to upload at least one song to activate the account, and this is the only one I had in MP3 format, so there you go! I'll be uploading new stuff just as soon as I get it done. I'm already laying down drum tracks for another of my songs called "Throw the Dice", and It'll be done within a week or so. Check back for updates!

I hope you dig it, if you do, download it and keep it for free - I'm not in this for the money, I just love making music! Thanks to all of you who have encouraged me throughout this (seemingly) neverending project - I can't believe it's finally done... Now I'm playing the Lady all the time - I am getting callouses on my callouses! LOL

Take care,

Rob

Thats a very cool tune! Good energy and real nice guitar work. The strat sounds really good. Did you use the vox on this one? The bass lines are cool too. Looking forward to hearing more Rob, with the updated new strat sound now that she's all finished, can't wait to hear it! She turned out neat. Love that deep blue color and black pickguard combination, very sharp looking ax.

Way to go Rob. If the expert offered you 7500,
He knows that he can get more I bet.Mabey much more.
Best, Mike

Rob, you did a helluva restoration job, my friend!! BEAUTIFUL!! Congrats!!


Spenser23

Looks great. I have to confess that I kept my finger on the volume control in case you played really bad but didn't know it. You're good though. Finger off volume control.