Getting Closer to the Guitarist of Your Dreams -Parts Selection-

The days are getting longer, the humidity is increasing, and the weather is getting more comfortable. I'm thinking of having a barbecue soon. Anyway,how are you all doing?

Well, today's topic is about the guitar as usual. Let's start with this video.

■ White Lion - Tell Me - 5/5/1988 - Ritz (youtube.com)

This is a live video of my favourite American band, White Lion. I'm sure many of you know more about the band than I do, so I won't go into details, but what I would like to draw your attention to is the guitar used by the guitarist Vito Bratta. Please take a closer look at the link below (around 2:47 mins).

( Play from 2:47 )

If you only thought "That's a white Strat-type", take a closer look. It has a solid FRT on the bridge, which is a strange position for the volume knob and a toggle switch. The specs is 22F and the brand is ESP.

( Play from 1:30 )

Here's another angle of the guitar. HS layout is really rare.

How many HS guitars come to your mind when you hear the word 'HS'. I used to see a lot of Charvel and Jackson guitars when they were made by Nakashin Instruments. Also, there’s Fernandes TEJ. Nowadays, you hardly see them any more.

Well, even if you just look at the picture for a moment, you can see that they use guitars with quite distinctive specs that are different from the normal Strat-type guitars.
That's why they don't sell them.They have such sharp specs.
So I thought, why not make a guitar with similar specifications, using the parts I have on hand, and try to choose parts in the direction of spending as little money as possible.

I've roughly worked out the parts from the images at first: ......

Neck/Body
Neck: maple/rose, brimmed 22F, small head, original FRT nut space, heel side rod adjustment slot
Body: Full-size ST shape, white, top jack

Hardware
Pegs: Gotoh/Schaller rotomatic, chrome
Bridge: FloydRose FRT-5 chrome
PU: Humbucker standard pitch/black, single staggered/white

The rest is probably pots and pickguards.

The detailed information on the equipment he uses is very limited (or even none at all), so it's a pain to have to guess at the part numbers of the smaller parts.
As for the body material, it is hidden from view by the paint, so I will not be too particular about it.

As for the PU, the bridge PU was a Seymour Duncan '59 when the album Pride was recorded, and was later replaced with a Seymour Duncan JB.
The authenticity of this is questionable, but Duncan PUs were in vogue for custom-made and modified guitars at the time, so it shouldn't be too far off the mark.

I don't know anything about the neck PU. If the rear is Duncan, I'll just go with it.

The pickguard is a non-hole ALLPARTS PG-0992-035 White Outline for Stratocaster.
The rest is as it should be.

With this much information, I think I can build something that is not exactly the same as my own specifications, but this is a 70-80% reproduction. In the sequel, I plan to start with the actual preparation of the parts.
See you soon!