Those of you who have been following the saga of my guitar can rest easily.\u00a0 It has all ended and all is well.\u00a0 Here’s the short version of the story:<\/p>\n
– Jake builds custom guitar for Mark in 1991<\/p>\n
– Mark gets crazy and decides to cannibalize said guitar and blogs<\/a> about it<\/p>\n – Jake sees Mark’s blog and says “don’t destroy my guitar<\/a>”<\/p>\n – Mark says “OK, but I already tore it apart”<\/p>\n – Mark puts guitar back together and sells guitar to Jake<\/p>\n – Mark builds new guitar with proceeds from sale<\/p>\n So, now we’re at the happy ending stage.\u00a0 The Savin guitar is back in Savin hands, and my new strat is done and I’m happily jamming on it.\u00a0 Word is still out on whether Mark is crazy.<\/p>\n Some more about my new guitar.\u00a0 It doesn’t have the rock solid stability and preamp of the Savin, and the vintage Warmoth neck will be missed.\u00a0 But, boy, is this thing amazing.\u00a0 I could write for hours on the parts and exactly what I did.\u00a0 It took a ton of research and planning, but not much time to actually do the work of putting it together.<\/p>\n The body is from a USA made Fender Highway One Strat.\u00a0 They are the lowest priced USA Strats you can get, partially because of the hardware and partially because they are not polished.\u00a0 Since I didn’t use any Fender hardware, that didn’t matter.\u00a0 Without the polish, they look pretty dull.\u00a0 The blonde color looks more like a Band-Aid finish than a shiny musical instrument finish.\u00a0 A little elbow grease brought the finish out, though, and now it looks great.<\/p>\n The neck is custom made by Warmoth<\/a>, who in my opinion make the best guitar necks out there.\u00a0 It has a Pao Ferro fingerboard and jumbo frets and plays like a dream.<\/p>\n