An all aluminum welded body with matching aluminum pickguard. These are from Fender’s 1993 run of 109 aluminum Strats made for Harley Davidson Motorcycles 90th Anniversary. A good friend of mine did the engraving on them and was left with a few un-touched bodies that he stored for years. A banjo-maker and engraver, he gave them to me as a gift in 2018. I am making necks for them, and installing custom-designed Lollar pickups to enhance the raw, blues tone and timbre
of a vintage National steel guitar.
THE "COUNTRY BOY"
Knotty-pine, tele-style with tortoise and herring-bone top binding, tortoise back binding, and a branded top ala a ’55[ Gretsch Roundup that I once loved. Plus, it has the “Glaser Bender” made by Joe Glaser (who kindly counted the body for the installation on his special fixtures). It has unique, solid-brass, lathe-turned, thru-body ferrules for super “coupling”.
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