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Re: Anyone built an unfinished Strat?

6/10/2000 2:58 AM
eS	Re: Anyone built an unfinished Strat? Jay I just finished an ash-bodied Warmouth Strat with Fralins. I played it before finishing the guitar - absolutely could not believe what I was hearing. Amazing! Every note popped with a deep, acoustic, woody snap. Total funk and twang. Put on a relatively thin nitro finish. All the magic is gone. Now the guitar sounds hard, stiff and lifeless, like all I'm hearing is the string speaking into the pickup with no body or air. You know what? If I could do it over, I would have put that ash body in the oven and baked it for a few hours to dry the wood out some. Just stands to reason it would mimic the effects of aging on a nice piece of wood.

6/10/2000 2:58 AM

Re: Anyone built an unfinished Strat?

Jay

I just finished an ash-bodied Warmouth Strat with Fralins. I played it before finishing the guitar - absolutely could not believe what I was hearing. Amazing! Every note popped with a deep, acoustic, woody snap. Total funk and twang. Put on a relatively thin nitro finish. All the magic is gone. Now the guitar sounds hard, stiff and lifeless, like all I'm hearing is the string speaking into the pickup with no body or air.

You know what? If I could do it over, I would have put that ash body in the oven and baked it for a few hours to dry the wood out some. Just stands to reason it would mimic the effects of aging on a nice piece of wood.

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