When a Project Goes Wildly Out of Control

"That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms" (thatbastardkurtis5) 01/21/2017 at 12:37 • Filed to: Guitarlopnik

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A couple of weeks ago I started building a guitar I could take to work with me to play during my lunch break. I’m not about to drive around Providence all day with an American Strat in the back seat, so I wanted to keep it cheap. That didn’t happen.

That’s a GFS poplar body with a no-name neck, a Fender MIM pickguard, and a set of GFS pickups/harness. Pretty cheap, right? Totally cheap.

Except then this happened:

And after that, a Mighty Mite MM2902VT neck happened. And a set of really nice Gotoh locking tuners happened. I’m keeping the loaded pickguard though, I like those pickups a lot.

So what was supposed to be a $200 guitar became a $400 guitar, but still one I’ll be okay taking to work with me. I don’t feel too bad about it...Candy Apple Red is far and away my favorite Strat color, I would have bought my MIA in it if it was available.

Gonna be a hell of a guitar when it’s done though.

Jcarr > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 01/21/2017 at 12:53

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Which GFS did you go with?

LOREM IPSUM > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 01/21/2017 at 13:06

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Just think, with all those spare parts laying around you can now build yourself a cheap guitar so others can play along with you.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > LOREM IPSUM 01/21/2017 at 13:19

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Thats how I always get into trouble. I’ll build a guitar but I buy two necks and instead of sending one back, I wind up building yet another guitar around that neck. I’m not a smart man.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > Jcarr 01/21/2017 at 13:21

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Texas wound Boston Blues with the Kwikplug harness, which is awesome...I think I actually got the idea to do that from the last one you were doing. I had a set of the Boston Blues in a MIM Strat and liked them a lot, so that seemed like a pretty safe route to go with it.

LOREM IPSUM > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 01/21/2017 at 13:24

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There are worse ways to spend your time and money.

Jcarr > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 01/21/2017 at 13:33

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Yeah, I did the Kwikplug on the Texas Alnicos I just put in my Strat. Pretty slick. Looks like a fun build.