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Aluminium necked strat-shaped-object
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13-10-2017 10:32am#1My latest project.
I think I posted about it before, but last year the girl that sits beside me in work gave me a blue Strat knockoff for free (I gave her a bottle of rum as thanks). I'm not a really fan of strats in general, but this was particularly horrible. But who's going to refuse a free guitar?
Inspired to turn free junk into something special, I painted it matt grey, put in chrome-covered humbuckers, chrome knobs, upgraded bridge and a Tone Guard anodized aluminium pickguard that I beveled the edge on myself. From the beginning I had a vision that this needed an aluminium neck, and I've been waiting the past year for my funds and someone's run of necks to align (these things are only made by a handful of people, and in small batches that are usually oversubscribed).
Alef Guitars from Israel announced in August that they were doing a run of 20 guitar necks, so I jumped at the chance. A couple of PayPal transfers and a short wait and it arrived yesterday. Here's the end result:
The neck is CNCd from a block of solid 6061 T6 aluminum, and polished to a mirror shine. Neck weight is about 1.3kg with tuners, total assembled guitar weight is 4.3kg. Neck thickness is 0.750" with no taper (same thickness at nut and 12th fret). Fretboard radius is 12". 43mm aluminium nut. Stainless Steel medium/jumbo frets and Gotoh tuners.
The neck feels really nice in the hand, and adds clarity and chime and increased sustain. Unplugged, the guitar is much louder than it was with the traditional wood neck.11
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