!cid_D935CC51-C669-43D6-B4B7-8E9A2F8596E6-L0-001.jpg 20220916_193407.jpg 20220916_193313.jpg Hello again everybody; A third short scale Strat clone has now joined the party. This one is similar to its previous two siblings, but with different woods. Body wood : Solid one piece Bubinga, purchased as...

Nice to see the pair, the neck wood on the blonde looks great. Is it like rosewood? Not heard of that wood before. Goncalo Alves, aka Tigerwood. I selected this wood after reading about it, and thinking its tonal properties sounded interesting. I didn't really know what it looked like at the time, ...

You've ditched the Ultrasonic pickups - may I ask why the switch? I didn't really "ditch" the Ultrasonics, since I love them so much and have been using them since the late 80s. I currently have four pickguards with different pickups in them. 1) DiMarzio humbuckers 2) DiMarzio "singl...

Greetings folks ! It's been about a year and a half that I've been playing the custom short scale walnut Strat copy shown above in this thread. It's been great. This guitar fits my hands and has improved my playing and musical attitude, taking my musicianship to the next level. The results have been...

Thanks for the nice comments. The equipment recipe for my tone in this video is : Ultrasonic pickups "secret weapon" ancient Yamaha PG1 guitar preamp Marshall 9005 tube power amp a pair of JBL E120 speakers in the top Marshall speaker cab The Yahama preamp was the first rack mount guitar p...

I have posted a YT vid playing this guitar. There is plenty of string bending and finger vibrato going on, especially in the solo section in the middle, which may be of interest to anybody concerned about how the Evertune bridge handles such left hand acrobatics. As I mention earlier in this thread,...

>>> You can set it up to allow for vibrato and bending, but there is a limit for which it needs to be setup, and then there is what can only be described as a "vibrato-gate" in which you have to vibrato enough to open the gate to allow you to then vibrato the note. It makes the guitar a bi...

Over the months of time that this post has been up on this board, this place where short scale fans congregate, I have received zero replies from anybody interested in doing what I have done. That's all fine of course. For some (many, most) of us, the 25.5 inch scale is fine. For others, 24.75 or 24...

>>> I'm intrigued by the ultrasonic pickups I first heard about them when I was at GIT in the late 80s. Some of the instructors there were using them. I also think Tom Anderson used them in some guitars, and other well known brands also did. http://ibanez.fandom.com/wiki/Ultrasonic_pickups They were...

Yes, the Evertune bridge requires substantial wood removal. However, in my opinion, it's well worth doing. I cannot speak highly enough about the Evertune. It's life changing. This short scale project has now been completed, and the real fun of playing it a lot now begins ! http://bestnetworx.com/up...

The connections to the output jack are reversed/backwards.
Red wire should go to the tip, black wire to the sleeve.

Pictures of the body in progress.
Warmoth walnut body, bathtub pickup rout, Evertune bridge rout, tru-oil finish being applied.

I just got the new neck from the luthier yesterday. It is completely beautiful. They did a superb job. On Friday, I'm off to see my other luthier with all of the parts for Evertune bridge routing, assembly, fit and finish. Here is a picture of the new neck next to a Squire Strat Mini neck, showing t...

>>> I would say that most people here aren’t that interested in strats, so the idea of a short scale strat isn’t that appealing. Newer shortscales, though not as short as yours, like the Toronado, Cyclone, Super Sonic are interesting and more likely to draw people here I would say. <<<...

>>> wasn't the 90s Mexican duosonic neck a shortscale conversion that could be bolted onto a 25.5 body? All of my measurements quoted here come from the marvelous measurement data compiled by the folks of this board. The bridge placement on a standard Strat body gives a distance of 7.08" from t...

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what I call attention to detail !

Here is Shorty version 2. http://bestnetworx.com/uploader/files/796/Shorty2/IMG_9638.JPG WTF Bob, this doesn't look short at all, you say ? Correct, but read on if you wish. To attempt to resolve the tuning issues with Shorty version 1, this project includes an Evertune bridge. By the way, if any of...

To illustrate how I got to the point of creating a custom neck, here are some pictures of my previous (non-custom) attempts. Shorty 1.0, made from an Indo Squire Strat body, and an Indo Squire Mini Strat neck. The neck required a bunch of work to make it playable. New tuners, new nut, and fret work....

>>> Please keep updating us as it progresses. Sure, I'm happy to do so ! >>> I admire your tenacity and determination to get it just the way you want it, Bob. Thanks. This has been a multi-year dream. Previous efforts, which attempted to save money by using only standard available parts, have all fa...

Some pictures of the new custom short neck : http://bestnetworx.com/uploader/files/796/Shorty3/IMG_6015.JPG http://bestnetworx.com/uploader/files/796/Shorty3/IMG_6014.JPG http://bestnetworx.com/uploader/files/796/Shorty3/IMG_6013.JPG http://bestnetworx.com/uploader/files/796/Shorty3/IMG_5949.JPG htt...