I built this Strat body when I was eighteen, it came from a huge old sycamore tree in my uncles garden, blown down in a freak storm in 1976, it was sold to a local furniture company who very kindly cut me a choice grained guitar sized blank; three months, and many bloodied knuckles later I had fashioned a guitar body ( with the exception of an old electric drill I didn't have access to any power tools at the time) so it was cut out with a fret saw, and shaped with a rasp, and a spokeshave, it was old school out of necessity.
It sat in my parents attic for an eternity , but I always had it in the back of my mind to resurrect it at some time, so I brought a one piece rosewood neck, removed the huge block of brass I had expoxied into the body in search of sustain ( this was the seventies ) and fitted a Babicz full contact tremolo. It sounds fabulous, I love the feel of the unfinished neck, and has become my new main squeeze; it's amazing to play a guitar that is made from a piece of a tree I used to play "hide and go seek" round with my cousins as a child.
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I built this Strat body when I was eighteen, it came from a huge old sycamore tree in my uncles garden, blown down in a freak storm in 1976, it was sold to a local furniture company who very kindly cut me a choice grained guitar sized blank; three months, and many bloodied knuckles later I had fashioned a guitar body ( with the exception of an old electric drill I didn't have access to any power tools at the time) so it was cut out with a fret saw, and shaped with a rasp, and a spokeshave, it was old school out of necessity.
It sat in my parents attic for an eternity , but I
always had it in the back of my mind to resurrect it at some time, so I brought a one piece rosewood neck, removed the huge block of brass I had expoxied into the body in search of sustain ( this was the seventies ) and fitted a Babicz full contact tremolo. It sounds fabulous, I love the feel of the unfinished neck, and has become my new main squeeze; it's amazing to play a guitar that is made from a piece of a tree I used to play "hide and go seek" round with my cousins as a child.
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