{"id":85,"date":"2008-07-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitaldin.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2008-07-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T12:00:00","slug":"the-frankenstrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.digitaldin.com\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"The FrankenStrat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Here she is, my favorite electric guitar. It’s a true FrankenStrat, and over the years I’ve put a lot of work into it and I’m quite happy with the results.<\/p>\n

Humble Origins<\/strong>
The guitar got its start when I worked for a music software company. Among the products offered by GVOX was a computer interface for guitar; it allowed you to connect the guitar to your computer and use it for learning and composition. Nowadays, guitar-to-MIDI systems by Axon, Roland and Yamaha surpass (by far) the capability of the GVOX Guitar System, but at the time, they were cheap and pretty effective. <\/p>\n

Over the years, they’d acquired a fair number of guitars at GVOX, for testing, giveaway prizes, etc. They had even forged a special relationship with Fender at one point to market and sell a “GVOX-Ready Strat” which had the mounting hardware for the GVOX pickup built in. So there were a lot of guitars around the office. I even had a pretty cool Strat next to my desk. That said, some of the technical gurus had even, at one point, apparently been working on wired-fret guitar systems and other such tech toys – so a lot of the guitars around the building had been somewhat “abused.”<\/p>\n

One such instrument provided me with the body for my favorite guitar. One day, while helping to take out the trash, I noted that a Squier Strat was being sent to the dumpster; its electronics gutted, its neck de-fretted and cracked… but the body, a cool yellowed semi-transparent, was in really good shape! So the body (with permission, of course) ended up in my back seat instead of the dumpster. <\/p>\n

Similarly, some months later, I was helping to clean out our basement storage area and a Mexican strat whose body had been heavily battle scarred (but whose maple neck looked to be almost perfect) was marked for disposal but found its way to my house. A little bit of Dremel work later, the neck fit securely into the pocket, and I had the beginnings of a rippin’ Strat!<\/p>\n

(to be continued tomorrow)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here she is, my favorite electric guitar. It’s a true FrankenStrat, and over the years I’ve put a lot of work into it and I’m quite happy with the results. Humble OriginsThe guitar got its…<\/p>\n

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