OK, I'll play...
That's my #1 Strat, she used to be a brand new Fender Stratocaster MIJ RI68, that's how she was:
Just a few mild modifications:
- Neck profile sanded to death, 12″ radius, JESCAR 57110-S Stainless Steel frets, nitro finish
- Kluson Revolution Locking Tuners
- Graphtech TUSQ nut
- Graphtech string tree
- Callaham Stainless Steel Neck Plate
- White Pearl Pickguard (3ply, no-name)
- Cutaway notch mod for easy truss rod adjustment
- ObsidianWire Custom HSS/HSH Gen2 7 Way Switch harness, It’s 500k controls and 0.022uf tone cap for the Bridge and Neck. Tone 1 (Middle and Neck) is 250k (in all settings), but at 10 it is completely removed from the circuit so it actually acts like a 500k (removes no treble) when it is at max, and then tapers down in a similar way to a 500k from 9 to 0. The tone cap for the Middle is 0.047uf, there is a treble bleed circuit, with Push/Pull Downthe 5 way switch works like any other strat, Tone 2 is for Bridge.
- Push/Pull Up
- Position 1: Bridge + Neck
- Position 2: Bridge + Middle + Neck
- Position 3: Middle + Neck
- Position 4: Middle + Neck
- Position 5: Neck
- Bridge: Dimarzio Tone Zone S (full humbucking mode, no coil split)
- Middle: Dimarzio Pro Track (full humbucking mode, no coil split)
- Neck: Dimarzio Pro Track (full humbucking mode, no coil split)
- Callaham steel block
- Callaham Bridge Top Plate and screws
- Raw Vintage steel saddles (RVS-108)
- Raw Vintage tremolo springs (5)
- Custom made stainless steel tremolo arm
And that's her right now:
That's my #2 Strat, she used to be a brand new Fender Stratocaster CIJ RI68, again, juuuust a few modifications:
- Neck profile sanded to death, 12″ radius, JESCAR 57110-S Stainless Steel frets, nitro finish
- Kluson Revolution Locking Tuners
- Graphtech TUSQ nut
- Graphtech string tree
- Callaham Stainless Steel Neck Plate
- Purple Pearl Pickguard (3ply, no-name)
- Cutaway notch mod for easy truss rod adjustment
- ObsidianWire HSS harness (500k controls and 0.022uf tone cap for the bridge, 250k controls and 0.047uf tone cap for the middle and neck, treble bleed circuit, the 5 way switch works like any other strat, Tone #1 is for Middle and Neck, Tone #2 is for Bridge)
- Bridge: Dimarzio Air Norton S (full humbucking mode, no coil split)
- Middle: Dimarzio Pro Track (full humbucking mode, no coil split)
- Neck: Dimarzio Pro Track (full humbucking mode, no coil split)
- Callaham steel block
- Callaham Bridge Top Plate and screws
- Raw Vintage steel saddles (RVS-108)
- Raw Vintage tremolo springs (5)
- Custom made stainless steel tremolo arm
Nowadays my #1 guitar is my Parker Fly Classic and my #2 my Fly Deluxe. Both have been modified so the middle position is both humbuckers in full humbucking mode (thanks Flyclone guys!), nothing else.
PS: in case some of you wonder about the Strats. Both were bought exactly because they were the best platforms for the modifications I needed to do, the most important were the necks (these are narrow and on the thin side). Don't blame me, blame my picky left hand. Both were bought around 2007-2008 and until 2020, apart from all the other mods, they were traditional SSS strats, with CS69 and all. Then, after 30 years of playing with single coils I couldn't stand them anymore, so I went HHH.