guitars

LoL, of course! Here's some bonus content and trivia just for you.

As I said the neck is from a cheap 2000s ~~strat copy~~ S-style from a brand I never heard of before or since. So last year I did some research out of curiosity and I found out that Storm was a subsidiary of Fernandes Guitars, a Japanese brand that became famous during the 70s-80s because they made pretty good clones from Fender (they still have some cult following because of their good quality).
This one was far, far away from being high quality as Storm guitars were the cheapest Chinese made guitars money could buy in the early '00s.
Here's an old picture of it:

The sounds it made were nasty as hell, switching pickups hardly did change the tone, the body was made out of MDF, making it so heavy that after 1 hour of wearing it on a strap it made my back and shoulders hurt (that's probably why I abandoned playing guitar for a long time shortly after they bought it to me). I saved the neck because it has an uncommon 16" radius (the flatness is probably to compensate the hideous fret work from the factory) and it's pretty fat, that for my shovel-sized hand is quite comfortable. Now that I sanded down and dressed the frets and rolled the fretboard edges, it feels like a 1500$ instrument.

Originally when I drew the diagram I imagined it to be like an "upgrade kit" for the Squier Esquire H, but as an experiment I surely didn't want to buy a new guitar and spend the least amount of money while having a functioning instrument: so I mostly used spares I had laying around from previous projects, the only parts I got new were the pickup (that I already said it's pretty darn excellent for the money), locking tuners from Guyker (compared to a set from Gotoh is like half the price and 80% of the quality) and the göldo superswitch, that funny enough with shipping costed more than either one of the other products.

In the end this guitar is like a redemption story of cheap Chinese made instruments: really bad in 2007, superb (for the price) nowadays.

Man, you can play. More than I can say. I can barely get out the hook for "Vultures" by the Offspring 😅 Take pride in your talents, you've worked hard to learn this stuff and it's more special than you think. I hope to catch your eventual videos around the 'verse!