crap... my mustang project gone wrong

minho422

I decided to get a strat size mustang body for my birdeye strat neck, so I called warmoth and told them to cut the neck part of the body to fit a strat neck, and the body itself would be a little bit bigger than the usual mustang body to fit the strat configuration.

I got the body yesterday, and the strat neck fitted perfectly. I quickly installed all the electronics and fixed the dynamic tremolo by tightening it all the way.

I plugged it into my Vox tonelab with a headphone, and it sounded alright, but I noticed that the 12th, 7th, 5th, 3th natural harmonix and picking harmonix were coming from a half step down from where they're suppose to.

I went to a local piano/violin shop(the shop owner does have experience with guitars) and had it checked out, and he said that their was nothing wrong with the installations, but the body itself is configured wrong, so the pitches are not in right place. right now the shop owner has my mustang to figure out how to fix it.

so what would cause the pitches to be half step down? the body was exactly the same length and width as the strat, only that the two horns? are shorter just like the mustang.

harrison

pics?

regardless of the body size shape or width it all has to do with the bridge placement.

if the bridge is off the notes will be too.

minho422

harrison said: pics?
regardless of the body size shape or width it all has to do with the bridge placement.
if the bridge is off the notes will be too.

the piano shop owner has it right now as I said, so I'll post up some pictures after I get it back. maybe I tightened the tremolo too hard that it pushed the strings way back. I don't know for sure. the bridge position is at where the strat modern trem/bridge is supposed to be at

harrison

oh my bad.

did you measure the scale once you bolted the neck on?

minho422

harrison said: oh my bad.
did you measure the scale once you bolted the neck on?

not really... I just screwed the neck and played for a while until I found that pitching error.

harrison

well this definitely sounds like a scale issue to me, the neck should be 25.5 for a strat, and should be 12.75" from the low e saddle to the 12th fret,

Earth

A stock mustang is 24"from nut to bridge, a stock strat is 25.5", sounds like your s is somewhere in between, hence, why it wont intonate and is unplayable. You will have to measure 12.75"from the 12th fret back, that's where the bridge needs to go. Hence, you will possibly need to fill the current routes and re-route for new vibrato/bridge (as its kinda one piece in a way) placement and have a new pickguard designed and cut to size too.

OR, figure out what scale the body is made to and buy the correct neck for it.

minho422

I knew that would be a problem, so I told Warmoth to make the mustang body to fit with the strat neck, so the body itself had adjustment to sync with the strat neck. but I don't know about the measurements they did or else. they also said the bridge position was moved to intonate

Earth

Sounds like they phucked up!