RevDrucifer
Fractal Fanatic
Technically, it got here Wednesday but it took me a few days to put it together-
If you‘ve seen my posts before, it’s no surprise I’m a massive Gilmour fanatic. Seeing Floyd when I was 11 changed my life, made me want to play guitar immediately and I was enamored with his CAR Strat. I got an MIM CAR Strat when I was 13, but I had my eyes dead set on a ‘57 AVRI. Other guitars became a priority as life went on and when I finally had everything else I needed, it came time for bucket list guitars. I went with MJT/Musikraft with this for several reason- I can’t stand a 7.25” radius and that’s what you get with an AVRI, the prices of AVRI’s are crossing the $2K mark and Gilmour’s actual CAR Strat was one of the early Fullerton AVRI’s with a different neck shape and body contour, so screw it. I went with a 12” radius, SS frets, Callaham V/N trem, Tusq self-lubricating nut and the Gilmour EMG’s (obviously).
It took all of 20 minutes to set this thing up once I had the strings on it and it plays GREAT! Had a couple days of neck/fret finishing to do; they sprayed the nitro over the frets and only removed it from the tops of them, so the first night was 3 hours with fret erasers getting it off. The next night was using cutting polish to hand buff the neck from a satin finish into the glassy finish-
This thing is as loud or louder than my PRS semi-hollow playing unplugged and I really can’t get over how well it’s playing for just getting it put together.
I’ve been waiting for this day for 28 years!
Oh yeah, look at the checking MJT did on the finish!
If you‘ve seen my posts before, it’s no surprise I’m a massive Gilmour fanatic. Seeing Floyd when I was 11 changed my life, made me want to play guitar immediately and I was enamored with his CAR Strat. I got an MIM CAR Strat when I was 13, but I had my eyes dead set on a ‘57 AVRI. Other guitars became a priority as life went on and when I finally had everything else I needed, it came time for bucket list guitars. I went with MJT/Musikraft with this for several reason- I can’t stand a 7.25” radius and that’s what you get with an AVRI, the prices of AVRI’s are crossing the $2K mark and Gilmour’s actual CAR Strat was one of the early Fullerton AVRI’s with a different neck shape and body contour, so screw it. I went with a 12” radius, SS frets, Callaham V/N trem, Tusq self-lubricating nut and the Gilmour EMG’s (obviously).
It took all of 20 minutes to set this thing up once I had the strings on it and it plays GREAT! Had a couple days of neck/fret finishing to do; they sprayed the nitro over the frets and only removed it from the tops of them, so the first night was 3 hours with fret erasers getting it off. The next night was using cutting polish to hand buff the neck from a satin finish into the glassy finish-
This thing is as loud or louder than my PRS semi-hollow playing unplugged and I really can’t get over how well it’s playing for just getting it put together.
I’ve been waiting for this day for 28 years!
Oh yeah, look at the checking MJT did on the finish!
