This is a parts caster/project guitar I built last year. It started with an 80s MIJ Strat XII body I acquired and escalated into a full-blown project. I got a J Mascis Jazzmaster neck, a custom set of chnlone pickups, a few cans of Reranch nitro, and I was off.



I'm having trouble posting a link, but if you do a Google search for 'Stratotele', you'll find a full thread dedicated to this build on OffsetGuitars.





The guitar came out great: nice tone, great neck, resonant body (basswood), perfect intonation. The only issues are cosmetic, and I've tried to capture them in the pics provided. You can read more about it in the link, but in the places where I filled the old routs on the body, there are slight ghost marks, visible in the right light. I've been playing the guitar for almost a year, and no one has ever seen them, only me. Be that as it may, I want to be up front about that so no one is surprised. Feel free to ask any questions.

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