1990s Unmarked Banana Creme Strat-Style Electric Guitar

I've had this guitar for a bit, now, and have used it on a number of recent records. It's a completely-unmarked, Asian-import, Strat-style clone with a basswood body, poly finish in "banana creme white" with minor chips and bumps here and there, and it's both very lightweight and also stupidly stable and functional. The (skunk stripe, one-piece) neck feels like an '80s Fender USA neck in shape and feel -- or maybe a '90s MIM neck -- and it has really fine birdseye fleck to the grain throughout its length. It plays fast and easy and has a familiar feel.

Since taking it in, it's lived in various configurations depending on the project, but it's sat in this one the longest, now -- with stock features (tuners, strap buttons, bridge -- which I've blocked so it's effectively a hardtail) -- but with a replaced anodized-gold aluminum pickguard, two Alnico II/V mixed-pole pickups in the neck/mid positions and a Fralin Blues Special (with a Tele-style baseplate) in the bridge position. The wiring harness is new and features quality components with an easy mix -- simple 5-way and master tone/volume knobs but there's also a mini-switch that allows you to "turn on" the neck pickup in the 4 and 5 positions so you can get "all three" and "neck+bridge" settings easily.

Why move it along? I've accumulated a lot of extra instruments in the last year in trade that need to get sent back out in the world and am simply short on space (and mental space) these days. This will be available at basically the cost of the parts put into it and some shipping expense. It's not a "toy" guitar at all -- I've used it for a number of gigs in addition to recording and it's been reliable and really fun to bring out because it's so lightweight.

Repairs included: a fret level/dress, new string trees at the headstock, new (better) pickups, new (better) anodized pickguard, new (better) wiring harness.

Full measurements and stats coming shortly...

















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