Best Fender Strat guitar in the World - PART ONE - Custom Shop (mine) - tonymckenzie.com

This is PART ONE of my complete Fender Stratocaster custom build video of the famous Strat from Mr Leo Fender. These videos (for the Mark I strat i.e. this one) extend for well over 1.5 hours of instructions and tips.

Everything except the body, scratchplate and pickups is genuine Fender FMIC but just the pickups alone are not Fender Licensed... so you could say that this is a FENDER guitar in almost every way... It's just that the pickups are BETTER than the Fender stuff. Fitted pickups on this strat are David White pickups from 1994. David sadly died some time ago so there will be no more - but he left a legacy that no one has really addressed to this day - if ever you see some for sale... just buy them!

However, this is a strat the likes of which you have never seen before - and I show you EXACTLY how to build your strat - you know - the one they DONT make.

I show you some of the techniques that will make your Custom Strat the best Stratocaster in the world at ANY price - and this one would cost you around just $1200 (or £800 in the UK). Its likely that if Fender made anything like this (which they do not) that you could easily pay many more thousands of dollars (or pounds) and even that might not come close to this awesome instrument.

Imagine having a Strat with looks to kill for, but somehow it's like an old friend, it makes you feel right at home and plays 'your' tune as you caress the fretboard.

This strat turned out to be a real corker of a guitar and whether you play blues, rock or anything else you can be sure that this guitar will hack it.

I guess thats why the Fender Strat is simply the biggest selling guitar in the world. Easy to develop, easy to make, easy to customise and easy to be yours compared to some of those prices out there.

So why not make one like I show you here? Don't know what to do? Frightened at the prospects?

Trust me - it's much easier than you think - and Mr Leo Fender wanted it to be that way.

This video is the first in a series of THREE plus another video teaser showing this guitar in action (but also in video THREE you can listen to the strat with differing musical tastes and styles showing exactly how this guitar sounds) rather than the rock stuff played in the teaser video.

I am also building a MARK II Fender Stratocaster which in fact knocks the socks off this one in a nuber of ways, but you will have to wait a short while for that one (the bank is complaining) but all I can say is that if you watch video three somewhere near the middle I do show you a pic of the body and the neck for that guitar is shown in these videos too.

Don't forget that my Strat builder site is going to get an update of this guitar and videos. The MARK II version will be featured on there also, but until then there is a strat I built a while ago which will vanish from those pages once I do the website update... www.stratbuilder.com

And don't forget to visit my main site www.tonymckenzie.com for reviews of masses of amps, guitars, effects etc. Real reviews (I buy everything I review) without the bullshit from dealers, manufacturers or any other undesireable commedians - just the simple truth about the kit under review.

This video (and the whole series) is copyright A B Mckenzie 2011 and tonymckenzie.com.

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[hikshredd]

Great information on this video. but there is something that i can´t figure it out. why golden bridge and silver tunners?

[tonymckenziecom]

@hikshredd At the time I was annoyed at the cost for gold - they were hard to find too. I eventually did get gold, but used them on the 'blue' strat :-)

[TheGuitardude111]

Hi there, how long did it take for the parts to come? thanks

[tonymckenziecom]

@TheGuitardude111 Thats one of the sticking points. If you order custom stuff from Warmoth it does take about 2 months (from here in the UK) but the time would typically be about 7 weeks for that body. The rest? Choose very carefully on the internet. I buy from ebay and have my own 'long term' suppliers for the most part. Check feedback very carefully before you buy. On a project like this prepare for about 2 to 3 months to get everything you need. My 'blue' strat took longer.

[hjerthinfarkht]

How do you find David Whites now days? I have a set in my Patrick Eggle strat, and they are the best single coils I have ever come across! I'm trying to find a set for tele as well, but they seem to be very rare.

Any suggestions where to look för them?

Nice guitar btw :)

[tonymckenziecom]

@hjerthinfarkht Unfortunately the David White pickups are no longer made since David died I believe. I would watch ebay like an eagle... sometimes they come up and you just might get some cheap (although I doubt the cheap part of my statement :-)

Hope you find some... they really are great.

[jma111000]

Nice looking guitar body!

[tonymckenziecom]

@IDanClarkI Ebay...

[IDanClarkI]

@tonymckenziecom

how exactly do you buy body parts from fender?

[tonymckenziecom]

@MYEYESONECONOMY check out the blue one now...