{"id":328,"date":"2009-03-25T16:40:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T15:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/?p=328"},"modified":"2009-04-02T07:53:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T06:53:18","slug":"castaway-strat-conversion-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/2009\/03\/25\/castaway-strat-conversion-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Castaway Strat Conversion &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is time that I create an instrument to show off the designs. Not being quite ready to take on the EGS work, I have decided on an alternate course of action. I purchased a throw away Squire Strat that had been kept for spares from 4Sound in Uppsala and I will document the work of converting this into using the EGS tremolo here on the blog in a series of installments.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-329\" title=\"img_0538\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/img_0538.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The guitar itself. I didn&#8217;t get any hardware at all for it, but will sort that out later.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-330\" title=\"img_0539\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/img_0539.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here, I have put some masking tape on the guitar to be able to draw on it and mark out the position of the new tremolo. I have also drawn a line at the 25&#8243; position from the nut and traced something resembling where the saddles should be positioned.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-331\" title=\"img_0540\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/img_0540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here, I have marked the positions for the tremolo posts 74 mm apart and also traced the outline of the tremolo base plate on the masking tape.<\/p>\n<p>Next installment will take you through drilling the holes for the mounting posts and routing the clearance behind the cavity to allow for tuning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is time that I create an instrument to show off the designs. Not being quite ready to take on the EGS work, I have decided on an alternate course of action. I purchased a throw away Squire Strat that had been kept for spares from 4Sound in Uppsala and I will document the work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}