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Winter project.... acoustic strat

  • 16-09-2019 8:52am
    #1
    martinedwards
    Registered Users Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭


    Yes, I know all about the Fender Stratacoustic.

    I own one. but my son has nicked it and taken it off to Uni.

    sooooo.

    I LIKE strats. I've owned a load of them over the years, but as the world turns I find myself playing about 95% acoustic, both at home and gigging.

    I even have a strat with a piezo bridge and a bone saddle already......

    sooooo.....

    remember the Gibson acoustic Les Paul? no, didn't think so..... they only sold about 6 of them. Chambered bodied LP with no magnetic pups, JUST a piezo in the bridge......

    My cunning plan, is get a reasonable strat.... Squier or Encore say..... take off the scratchplate and bridge.... rout it out completely hollow..... put a spruce acoustic top on it and a regular acoustic bridge with a piezo pickup..... and a preamp strap jack.

    unplugged it'll be almost as quiet as an electric, but plugged in, it'll sound like an acoustic, but play like a strat...... and be virtually feedback proof......

    I'll let you know how I get on!


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  • #2
    The Master
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 14,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Master


    Sounds awesome Martin

    I'll be watching with great interest


  • #3
    roots2branches
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭roots2branches


    I hope yours sounds better than Fender's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyyl0czwJDk
    They really do make ****e Acoustics.


  • #4
    martinedwards
    Registered Users Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭martinedwards


    http://martinedwardsluthier.blogspot.com/


  • #5
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users Posts: 5,152 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    I still have a Kramer Ferrington from 1987. They were the first mass produced "acoustic strats".

    I thought that they were the coolest guitars when I saw people like Eddie Van halen and Dweezil Zappa playing them (at the time).

    They really don't sound great, but I still own it. :cool:


  • #6
    martinedwards
    Registered Users Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭martinedwards


    Rented Mule wrote: »
    They really don't sound great, but I still own it. :cool:

    Yeah, I have a Fender Stratacoustic.

    Chinese made..... plastic back like an Ovation. Unplugged..... I've heard a lot better. Plugged in.... not bad. My son nicked it and took it to Uni with him....:p


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  • #7
    martinedwards
    Registered Users Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭martinedwards


    Forgot about this thread!

    so here's the finished acousticaster strat.

    and no, of COURSE its not a Fender.......

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    and the only video I have of it......

    Me, My daughter on French Horn, And my good lady wife on Clarinet playing Silent night.

    signal chain is Piezo under the saddle, straight to the Roland Cube with some Chorus.

    https://youtu.be/aTNUANhNnQ0

    unplugged, its a lot lighter than a strat and far from as quiet as an unplugged electric, but still a lot quieter than any of my other acoustic instruments.

    for noodling around, its actually now the first instrument I'll lift off the wall hanger......


  • #8
    CptMonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 468 ✭✭CptMonkey


    Was it hard to build? I’d love an acoustic with a neck from a strat :D


  • #9
    martinedwards
    Registered Users Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭martinedwards


    CptMonkey wrote: »
    Was it hard to build? I’d love an acoustic with a neck from a strat :D

    Not at all.

    the trickiest bit was the routing then getting the maple top to fit nicely. fitting the bridge and and the electrics was easier than a regular acoustic because of the ease of access from the back.


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