Finally I got all bits and pieces together and I have a guitar that has what I wanted: staggered locking tuners, a good vibrato, vintage style alnico 2 pickups with low output and a treble bleed circuit, a blender that in position 1 blends in the neck pickup and in position 5 blends in the bridge pickup, in position 2 blends in the neck and in position 4 blends in the bridge so you have all options! And more; graphite nut, jumbo frets, a neck with 12″ radius and and a headstock with artwork of sweet child of mine!

The guitar is brighter than my other ST-style guitar and I like it. Now I have two nice guitars that sounds different from each other. The weight of the guitar is 3,72 kg. The older one that I have is 3,49 kg. I think a lot of the higher weight can be explained through the heavier Wilkinson vibrato and the locking tuners.

Right now I don’t use the string tree, I think that is what the staggered tuners are for, I think they do their job. And the string tree would be placed right in the middle of the artwork and I don’t want that.

Soundexamples here.

For the sound examples I use BluGuitar´s Amp1 Mercury.

Cheers!

From the beginning I had an idea of having a blue guitar. But since I could not find a blue body to buy I thought I paint it myself. But then I changed my mind and bought a white body. Nevertheless I wanted something blue on the guitar so I find a blue pick guard that I bought. Kind of mother-of-pearl blue. So I changed the pick guard. It looks nice I think.

I installed the vibrato as well, the Wilkinson WV6R Vibrato. Since I don’t have the neck yet I installed only two springs. The string gauge I use is .009 – 0.46 so the tension is quite low.

And the wiring itself is a wiring with a blender and a treble bleed. The wiring is from Banzai music in Berlin, Germany. From which most of the parts are, by the way. It took some time to get it to work because they had made a mistake in putting it together, and I on my side made a mistake when soldering the pickups. But fortunately they did send me the wiring diagram together with it so at the end of the day it worked out fine. Learning by making mistakes!