Strat body without usually drilled output jack

[FinallyBlossom]

Totally forgot this one:



Fender / Squier '51

[Danley]

https://youtu.be/Wrc3caYUVyc

[FinallyBlossom]

Best Strat improvement one can do! Love the mini toggle switchers for each single coil as well

[Embenny]

https://youtu.be/Wrc3caYUVyc

That's neat to find out it was a strat with EMGs all along. I wonder how many tone gurus called that. I'm gonna guess...not many.

Playing bass has gotten me more and more into active pickups, but I've never owned a guitar with them. It's long-established internet lore that they all automatically sound "sterile" whatever that means. I should probably try some.

[Danley]

I want to try EMGs for sure - even high impedance actives (like the G&L Espada or F100E, that just use an active preamp with ‘regular’ pickups.)

[FinallyBlossom]

Yet another "Strat" like guitar I forgot to name:



Burns Guitars London - Marquee

[FinallyBlossom]

Just wondering:
Has anyone yet spotted an online shop where you can buy pre-painted strat bodys without the usual outputjack position? Or maybe even without the usual outputjack position AND the usual drillings for the standard tremolo? I know I know: warmoth could do so. However it's pretty prizy and I'm just off for a cheap DIY project

[CROSS_guitars]

You might find one at guitarfetish.com
They will still have the jack hole drilled but they will have non trem bodies.

[Nudger]

One thing I don’t like about some Tele jacks is, you can’t use with certain angled cable plugs.

Fender used to build a Strat series where the output jack was on the pickguard itself. Unfortunately I can't find a pic of such a Strat model however the Fender Bullet is built the same way:




My idea of a Tele like output jack on a Strat is just a personal thing because I think that's the best position to avoid a conflct between the vibrato arm and your hand/picking during playing.

The jack socket on this reminds me of my "pre" Alternate reality mash up of strat.body/must,trem/jazz,neck.
Wanted a more tele pickup config.. opening up the jack routing on my robert cray hard tail body for a mega versitile switching set up.
Series/Parallel/N/B/out of phase/bass cut.

[countertext]

1983 “Dan Smith” Strats put the jack in the second tone spot.