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Sonic!
Today I received the call I've been waiting for since I dropped it off two weeks ago. My Sonic Blue hardtail Warmoth Stratocaster guitar was finally ready! Kraig Phillips called me around 2pm EST saying it was all together and he was just needing to adjust the pickup height and it would be ready! So, when I left at 4pm, I grabbed some cash to pay him and headed to his shop. He had it sitting in the teaching area already plugged in and ready for a sound test. Wow, it sounds great! Plenty of power and Strat tone! I put the label on when I got home. I put the turtle logo on the back of the headstock and the name logo on the front.
I'll try to make a video of the guitar in the next couple days. I'm a bit busy with three gigs in a row this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday but we'll see!
This has been my dream guitar for so long I can't remember when it started. I have been planning to build this guitar since at least 1999. Sonic Blue is my favorite old Fender custom color, I've always liked gloss finished necks, and I prefer hardtail bridges to tremolo bridges. If I were to order this guitar from the Fender Custom Shop it would have been well over $4,000. Instead, using Warmoth parts, it was well under $1,000 and just took a little time. Nearly 100% American Made!!! I think only the bridge, tuners, and maybe the volume pot are imported parts.
A 1999 Fernandes Retrorocket in (yellowed) Sonic Blue. Completely overhauled inside and out. New mint green pickguard, new aged white knobs & covers, new MIM Fender bridge, new GFS trem block, used set of mid-90's Fernandes pickups (rebuilt w/ new rod magnets), and all new electronics, wiring and shielding. Plays great and sounds great! Grand Total of $275 plus hard work.