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    Project: Hannah

    For your viewing pleasure we have perhaps our most ambitious modification project from 2025.  We started with a lawsuit-era Masada Telecaster clone and turned it into “Project: Hannah.” This player is a devotee of Prog Rock, and he likes to have lots of sonic options at his disposal.  The look of this project was inspired by one of Steve Howe’s guitars, of Yes fame. We put in a pair of Fishman Fluence Classic Humbuckers through push-push volume and tone pots, allowing three distinct voices.  The humbuckers surround a passive single coil pickup salvaged from the original set of pickups from the 1970s.  All three pickups are wired through a 6…

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    Fender Stratocaster in for a spa treatment

    I had the pleasure of working on this 50-year old Strat this week.  My client recently bought it from the original owner’s family, and he wanted to take care of some deferred maintenance issues, and to spice it up a bit and make it his own. We started by making a custom pickguard and back plate out of matte black .08 triple laminated plastic.  The pickguard was loaded with three period-correct Seymour Duncan single coil pickups and brand new CTS pots and a Fender 5-way blade switch. I then refretted the neck with Stewmac 0155 nickel silver wire and added a hand-carved bone nut, after which she got the legendary…

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