"Brett Robson" <jet_boy@deja.com> wrote in message
news:bi20gg01fco@drn.newsguy.com...

> They look interesting, but I don't really like working on guitars. I'm
happy to
> rip a computer to peices, but I don't know enough about guitars to change
stuff.
> My Strat copy has quite a lousy flat dead sound and I have considered
buying a
> pickup replacement kit, but that's >20,000yen and the guitar isn't really
worth
> it. The neck isn't bad, but the fretting at the first fret is quite
kibishii,
> difficult to play an F chord.

My project strat is not an old guitar that I'm changing all around. It's a
brand new custom job. I had each piece and each measurement built to my
specifications because it's something I've always wanted. It looks like a
strat, but that's where the similarity ends.

I can tell you've been shopping around in Japan for a pickup replacement
kit. Don't. They triple and quadruple the prices on stuff that you can buy
right off the internet.

Try this place http://www.stewmac.com/ You can buy an assembled strat
pickguard complete with pickups, potentiometers, switches, all the wiring
done for 40 sepponian shekels. Installing it is as simple as screwing in 8
screws and attaching two wires to your output jack.