Hey Gang,
OK, here's the story on that guitar.
In 1989, I met a kid who had that guitar and he never really learned how to play, and he saw my setup at the time, and offered to sell me the guitar, even though I didn't need it. I gave him $25 for it.
Originally, it was just your basic white Strat copy. All the original hardware was on it, but the pickups were trashed. The neck and middle pickups were still in the guitar, but not working. The bridge pickup, was replaced with a DiMarzio Super Distortion humbucker, but it was a home made installation. Both the body and the pick guard looked like it had been cut out with a chisel to fit the humbucker in there. The pickup wasn't even mounted with the adjustment screws, it was just suspended with the jagged points of the pick guard holding the pickup in place against the coil windings
I bought a Floyd Rose and some new DiMarzio pickups for it, ( Pro 151 PAF, and two DP- FS1's ), a couple of CTS Pots, and a new 5-way switch. Then I took it to a local Luthier who got the neck ready while I went to work on the body. I had him route the body for the FR first, then I took it home and filed the cutaways with a wood rasp to get the rough shape. I then sanded them down smooth and got a sheet of black fun fur from Pat Catan's, and glued that on where I wanted it. ( I also cut the monkey-grip handle in the body usind a small hole saw and hand cranked drill). Then I took it back to the Luthier, and had him paint the cutaways white with black tips. He did that and assembled the whole thing, gave it a complete line up and balance, and I bought a Lochness Green hard shell case for it. We had a good laugh over that guitar when it was done.
It plays very fast and has a decent tone. The tuning machines are the original chrome Schallers that were on my 1980 STRAT, and the pick guard, was the original from my 1983 57' RI, Schaller Strap Locks completed the package. I've used that for a lot of gigs, but never for recording. I was never really satisfied with the tone for other than live gigs. Maybe I might try some new pickups in the future for it, but I haven't picked it up and played it in years. I liked the way it looked with the pink pickup covers, and I still have the pink covers for the single coils in a box somewhere.
So there you have it. When I first completed the guitar, I used to refer to it as the "Beast." Then, I learned that d*ck Dale named his Strat by that name, so I had to change it to Sonofabeast.
Harley