Building a Partscaster

[rorystrat]

My Strats are mainly all from parts:

My Rory Stratocaster

This is my Rory Strat. It is based on the specs of Rory Gallagher’s guitar: [rorystrat] It has a MIM Road Worn body and a MIM Robert Cray signature neck which is 60’s style but with a 9.5 inch radius and jumbo frets. The tuners, trem/bridge, jack socket, strap buttons are all reliced and I think are Fender Custom Shop. The wiring is from a MIA 62 reissue but I modded it like Rory’s so the tone now works on the bridge pickup too. The pick ups are Fender 57/62. For a long time this was my …

You can get rattle cans of Nitro Cellulose and vintage lacquer if you want to paint them. I’ve done one of mine shell pink.