Best Fender Strat guitar ITW – PART TWO – Custom Shop (mine) – tonymckenzie.com

This is PART TWO of my complete Fender Stratocaster custom build video of the Strat from Mr Leo Fender. These videos (for the Mark I strat ie this one) extend for well over 1.5 hours of instructions and tips. This part two is approxemately 30 minutes. 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 DON’T 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. Labour and quality cost big money today. 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 …