Hello!!! This is my Fender Stratocaster MIJ 1992, I bought it in a very bad paint condition, although it worked perfectly and played divinely. I bought it from a guy who I later became friends with. The guitar was quite battered, it had made a "relic" but in a very bad way, so some time after having it I decided to restore it.
Hola!!! Esta es mi Fender Stratocaster MIJ 1992, la compre en muy mal estado de pintura, aunque funcionaba perfectamente y se tocaba divinamente. Se la compre a un tío con el que luego entable amistad. La guitarra estaba bastante maltratada, le habían hecho un "relic" pero de muy mala, manera, asi q un tiempo después de tenerla me dispuse a restaurarla.
The cavities had been beaten on purpose, because "that gave it a better tone" nothing could be further from the truth, the hardware had been dyed gold, to imitate the John Mayer Strat.
Las cavidades habían sido golpeadas adrede, porque "eso le daba mejor tono" nada mas alejado de la realidad, el hardware había sido teñido de dorado, para imitar la Strat de John Mayer.
At this point I simply put it together with its electronics (Fender Japan) and its original hardware (Gotoh), the only thing I did differently was that I made a custom bone nut. The guitar had a very nice and versatile tone, but if you have read my previous posts you already know what I did with the pickups.... Yes, I did put EMG - SA on it (the same ones used by David Gilmour), and it stayed that way for a while.
En este punto simplemente la armé con su electronica (Fender Japan) y su hardware (Gotoh) original, Lo unico q hice diferente fue que le fabriqué una cejilla de hueso a la medida. La guitarra tenía un tono muy bonito y versátil, pero si han leido mis post anteriores ya saben que hice con las pastillas.... Si le puse EMG - SA (las mismas que usa David Gilmour), y asi se quedo por un tiempo.
One day I got bored of seeing her with such a poorly achieved relic and I prepared to return it old original color, at this point I didn't know what color was, I was counting on the fact that they had not sanded all the color on the back of the body... And Yes!!! there was the original color very battered but it was distinguishable, it was Lake Placid Blue, so I asked for the exact color, bought the materials and started the restoration work, you know, sand, clean, sand, paint, sand, repaint, sand, sand and sand.
Un dia me aburri de verla con un relic tan mal logrado y me dispuse a devolverle su antiguo color original, es este punto no sabia cual era , contaba con que no hubieran lijado todo el color en la parte de atrás del cuerpo... Y Si!!! ahí estaba el color original muy maltratado pero se distinguía, era Lake Placid Blue, asi que pedi el color exacto, compre los materiales y empecé el trabajo de restauración, ya saben, lijar, limpiar, lijar, pintar, lijar, volver a pintar, lijar, lijar y lijar.
With the paint completely dry, we sanded again and waxed, to start putting everything back together, strangely enough I decided to put back its original pickups and electronics except for the bridge where I put a Fender STD pickup. I also removed all the gold paint from the tremolo and jack plate and left it in its original silver.... And so this Fender Stratocaster MIJ 1992 was renewed and got back the look it had when it left the factory back in the 90's. I hope you liked and enjoyed this post.
Ya con la pintura completamente seca, lijamos de nuevo y enceramos, para comenzar a armar todo de nuevo, extrañamente decidí volver a ponerle sus pastillas y electrónica originales excepto en el puente que le puse una pastilla Fender STD. También quite toda la pintura dorada del tremolo y el jack plate y lo deje en su plateado original.... Y así esta Fender Stratocaster MIJ 1992 fue renovada y volvió a tener el look q tenia cuando dejó la fábrica por allá en los 90's. Espero les haya gustado y disfrutado de este post.
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