I have caught the partscaster building bug. I guess it all started when I commissioned my first custom build in 2016, a Kiesel Ct-624. I loved picking every detail of my guitar and having something that was uniquely tailored to me. The very next year, I wanted a Blackguard. While searching all the available options, I found that no guitar had every detail I wanted. I ended up building a Warmoth Blackguard for a little over $1k including finishing tools and a hard shell case. The same options I chose would have cost me about $4k (at least) from FCS and north of $2k from other notable builders.
Fast forward to now... I am jonesing for a Strat type guitar and really like the Silver Sky. But there are several things about the Strat I just don’t like. I do not like the terms on starts, or any guitar for that matter, and I have never like the single coil in the bridge position of a Strat. Because of my experiences with the quality o the bodies and neck coming from Warmoth, I have decided to build an inspired by Silver Sky guitar.
I plan on using an Alder Strat body, a Maple Vortex conversion neck with 59 round back profile and stainless 6105 frets. This will have a recessed TOM bridge and Fishman Fluence HSS pickups. I will finish the body in either a ghost indigo or magenta pearl over white with a white pick guard. The whole thing will cast less than a grand.
I’m absolutely ruined, because I went straight to Warmoth once I got the idea for the guitar. I didn’t shop around to see it anything exists (which I am 99% sure it doesn’t).
I don’t have an option for set neck instruments so I will have to order custom when that type of guitar come up, but for bolt ons. I’ll be building my own from now on.
I’m not really looking for options, as my mind is 100% made up. Just wondering, if anybody else no longer considers production instruments and prefers to build themselves.
Here’s the blackguard.
Fast forward to now... I am jonesing for a Strat type guitar and really like the Silver Sky. But there are several things about the Strat I just don’t like. I do not like the terms on starts, or any guitar for that matter, and I have never like the single coil in the bridge position of a Strat. Because of my experiences with the quality o the bodies and neck coming from Warmoth, I have decided to build an inspired by Silver Sky guitar.
I plan on using an Alder Strat body, a Maple Vortex conversion neck with 59 round back profile and stainless 6105 frets. This will have a recessed TOM bridge and Fishman Fluence HSS pickups. I will finish the body in either a ghost indigo or magenta pearl over white with a white pick guard. The whole thing will cast less than a grand.
I’m absolutely ruined, because I went straight to Warmoth once I got the idea for the guitar. I didn’t shop around to see it anything exists (which I am 99% sure it doesn’t).
I don’t have an option for set neck instruments so I will have to order custom when that type of guitar come up, but for bolt ons. I’ll be building my own from now on.
I’m not really looking for options, as my mind is 100% made up. Just wondering, if anybody else no longer considers production instruments and prefers to build themselves.
Here’s the blackguard.
