My ”Black Strat” project

Turning my Fender Player Series Stratocaster into ”Black Strat”.
I used following main parts in my project:
- Fender Player Series Stratocaster body, bridge and tremolo
- Fender ”soft-v” shape vintage neck
- Gotoh vintage locking tuners
- Fender Custom Shop '69 pre-wired pickguard
- Seymour Duncan SSL-5 (in bridge)
- GHS David Gilmour String set
- Other minor parts like Fender string guide and tremolo arm spring etc

[@davidsantoro4717]

My god!! What a beatiful neck...all the guitar is awesome, but the neck is incredible. Congratulations!

[@EverBeyondRadio]

Nice job, I went all black on my project, all black controls, trem block, pickup covers and pick guard, graphite nut and tuners and trees. Rosewood fretboard so all pretty dark aside from head. Hope you're enjoying it. Thanks for the vid. I'm too lazy to edit my footage.

[@EchoSpace999]

Thanks! I like it very much, it’s funny how visually pleasing gears makes you wanna play more, hah!
Your version sounds great too, looking forward to see your project here in RUclips :)

[@robblackmoreofficial]

Very Nice! Congrats! Sounds Killer.

[@HautaAntero]

Last summer I had very similar project. I bought Squier Classic Vibe Stratocaster Candy Apple Red Body without any other parts. So I have to buy also neck, pickups, and saddle system. Saddle system was cheap, but neck was 79€, and pickup system was Fender Vintage Pickups, which was 229€.
I alsi had to send my guitar to professional instrument fixer to finishing the neck.
I also ask him to add a logo what I had designed by myself, in to the neck's head.
And because body was from Squier, but neck and pickup system were from Fender, I decide to give guitar a totally own name, and that name was HeartBlade.
I admit that, I take little bit inspiration from Gilmour's Candy Apple Red Strat, but also from Clapton's Torino Red Strat. It doesn't have actual same features, but it have a tone and sound of Vintage Fender.

[@camilofernandez3588]

Looks and sounds great

[@2bikemikesguitartopics145]

Really nice work

[@Forrestlin1128]

What a beautiful guitar! Good taste

[@mullinguitars8619]

Of course, you still have the “Gilmour wiring mod” to do, so that the neck pickup can be used together with the bridge. There are several ways to do this, and some newer selector switches that can do this and more.

[@EchoSpace999]

Yeah, the wiring mod is on my to-do list :)

[@floatinganarchychannel3204]

Thing of beauty😅

[@fleeixlp2526]

nice job dude, greetings from germany

[@k.y.e.6807]

I got the same neck recently and I love it! Your guitar turned out awesome and sounds great !!

[@EchoSpace999]

Thanks! Yeah, it is really nice neck to play!

[@Kusinasan]

How much buy did you get

[@ryersondodge1998]

In the end (ballpark) what was the final tally to do it? Just to get an idea?

[@EchoSpace999]

For me with those parts it was somewhere around ~850€ / ~915$ ( + Fender Player series Strat).
Some money can be saved if being able to find second hand parts in good condition👍

[@ryersondodge1998]

I hope you're proud 👏 because you should be that is fucking awesome ❤ 😊 inspires me to do the same, but I don't have your skills, one question have you considered adding the mini toggle for additional pick up? Thank you now rock it out my man! I'll probably watch this 4 or 5 more times cheers 🍻

[@EchoSpace999]

Thanks mate!🍻 I was considering the mini toggle switch, but decided to leave it for later since I ended up using pre-wired CS 69 pickguard. But that would be a really cool feature to have!
And about the skills; it was mostly assembling and replacing the parts, so if I could do it, you can too!😄
And I also used a professional guitar tech guy for lowering the nut, which would have been more difficult to do by myself.

[@greeniousity]

Vandalism: beautiful as a rock in a cops face

[@user-ty7lc6vx7c]

Und was ist mit der Electronic..? Da fehlt ja einiges... Also eine halbe black strat... 😊