In the Beginning...
Mike's wife asked me to build him a guitar for his birthday. We decided on a bone stock replica of a 60's small peghead Stratocaster. The body color is a dark burgundy with chrome hardware and a single ply black pickguard. The neck is a beautiful piece of bird's-eye maple (the photos do no justice to it) with a rosewood fingerboard and paua shell inlays. This is a fairly typical bolt-on-neck build and gave me a chance to work out with a new spraying setup (which was a catastrophe at first). It has a fairly chunky C-profile neck (Mike is used to playing an acoustic) that would be more common on an early Telecaster. I like the feel of big necks and I figured it would be easier to make it smaller than bigger. If you check out the links page you'll find "Stewart-MacDonald" listed and most of the hardware as well as the fingerboard came from them.