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I have always loved the tone of a good strat but I personally never quite liked the looks as much as I like the clean lines and neck joint of my schecter. So my idea for my upcoming guitar build is to make a modern looking pickguardless body similar to the Schecter C-1 with a dark (green or blue) paintjob and an ebony fretboard and 3 single coil duncan strat pups and a floyd. is there any way I could make a guitar like that sound kind of like a vintage strat? I would appreciate pickup tips, wood opinions or basically any other help. If this idea is totally stupid please tell me so, I can take criticism and I am very uncertain about this. Also is there any way to buy necks that are non bolt on so I could do a set neck setup? I am willing to sacrifice the floyd if neccesary for the tone. Also how much would a project like this cost? I am pretty new to building but I have a couple of luthier friends in town to help with the really complicated stuff

thanks,
Eli
ps. keep my insanity from getting out of hand

bumpity

It'd get you a helluva a lot closer, but only a vintage strat sounds like a vintage strat.

Try getting coil taps put on your current Schecter, though. A JB tapped is as close to a real single coil as I'd ever want.

A lot of the things that give Strats amp; LPs their distinctive tones is the way they're built. The farther you get from the original recipe, the less your results will taste like the original.
In your case, losing the pickguard changes the tone. Same with changing the neck joint and ebony fretboard. If you're really after vintage-like tone, forget about the Floyd (along with any floating or locking trem).
PS, it's waaay uncool to bump a thread after only an hour.

sorry