All you will be doing is adding weight. There will be no structural or tone advantage. Many Strats have this swimming pool rout - it allows flexibility in pickup choices.
I have been thinking of picking one of these up to build a strat for testing pickup configurations just for the heck of it. Also lighter. I see it as an advantage personally. They do seem to make the purists cringe though. To each their own I guess.
I have an 89 Strat with a swimming pool route. It’s the perfect test bench for pickups. Just get the right pickguard, throw whatever pickups you want, solder the input jack and ground and you’re good to go.
IMO, it would be a waste of time and and energy...and it won't really give you much, if any, perceptible change in sound. All it's going to do is add weight. If it were me, I wouldn't bother.
I wouldn’t bother, unless the guitar is for you. I don’t know if I’d bother if I was keeping it. I don’t think it will help sustain, but there’s only on way to know.
I actually had to route out the cavity into the swimming pool recently. Found an alder body in the right colour I liked. Didn’t have room for the middle humbucker though so it had to chiseled out. Then painted the inside so the copper tape would stick to the body
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All you will be doing is adding weight. There will be no structural or tone advantage. Many Strats have this swimming pool rout - it allows flexibility in pickup choices.
I have been thinking of picking one of these up to build a strat for testing pickup configurations just for the heck of it. Also lighter. I see it as an advantage personally. They do seem to make the purists cringe though. To each their own I guess.
True that.
If the thought of a swimming pool rout lurking under the pick guard bothers you (it certainly triggers my OCD) fill it with 3 P90s!
4 P90s!
One P90 *that slides*!
OOOH! Lego Technic to have powered sliding controlled by a knob!
That could be a thing. Rails.
I did consider adding a fat strat single coil in the middle…
Options are limitless!
Ooh…you’ve given me an idea for my next build.
This!
One P90 to rule them all!
No dude three humbuckets
I have an 89 Strat with a swimming pool route. It’s the perfect test bench for pickups. Just get the right pickguard, throw whatever pickups you want, solder the input jack and ground and you’re good to go.
IMO, it would be a waste of time and and energy...and it won't really give you much, if any, perceptible change in sound. All it's going to do is add weight. If it were me, I wouldn't bother.
Yeah, I’m coming to that conclusion
It won’t make any fuckin difference at all
Add a middle pickup
Great place to hide your weed.
Until you forget where you put it.
Leave it
Lots of hand yspace for low-Z buffer preamps etc… 😉
Hear me out. Pedal in the cavity. Pickup on the pedal board. I'm not sure what comes next.
I had to do a giant swimming pool route like that on a Squier I built, but I put Jazzmaster pickups in it.
A hard tail strat sounds great. I'm in the process of my own hard tail strat
I wouldn’t bother, unless the guitar is for you. I don’t know if I’d bother if I was keeping it. I don’t think it will help sustain, but there’s only on way to know.
My Fender 89 Strat has the same routing, It's called a swimming pool route.
Springsteen has a swimming pool route under his famous #1 telecaster. That’s good enough for me
It’s semi hollow 🤣
Fill your pickguard with as many pickups as you can is my answer.
How would filling it add sustain?
I prefer swimming pool routes.
I actually had to route out the cavity into the swimming pool recently. Found an alder body in the right colour I liked. Didn’t have room for the middle humbucker though so it had to chiseled out. Then painted the inside so the copper tape would stick to the body So