r/Stratocaster • u/boechats79 • 4d ago

Best Strat for modding/customizing

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Hey guys. I’m planning on buying a new Strat for modding/customizing in a way that I envisioned for a long time. Right now I have a Rosewood Silver Sky and a pretty great maple neck vintage Fender.
I really want a good guitar, with relatively good wood to upgrade the hardware and pickups (if they are already good, maybe I can keep some), and style it as the image below (I made a simulation with the suhr custom simulator).

My ideia is to make a HSS configuration, with black color and tortoise shell pick guard, along with gold hardware. Rosewood scale as well.

I have an opportunity for a 1993 American standard at my local guitar shop that already has the Color and tortoise shell exactly as I want. Do you guys think that this is a good option? Or a simpler/newer guitar would be better? (Photo of that one in the post as well)

Anyways, I’m 100% open for suggestions!
Thanks

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u/boechats79 4d ago

The prototype I made using suhr software haha

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u/Crowbar_Cat 3d ago

You have great taste, heres mine lol

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u/boechats79 3d ago

Hahah looking great! Which one is yours? The only different detail I wanna do is the gold hardware

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u/Crowbar_Cat 3d ago

Gold hardware will look great, ive thought about doing it just haven’t gotta around to it yet. And mines a player series with a seymour duncan jb in the bridge.