Preamble
The information I gathered for this post was obtained from the owner of this gorgeous strat himself, Matthew Chee of Singapore's "Halfway Crooks." The interview was conducted at 4:00 p.m. on December 4th, 2018 at the Bee @ Publika, Kuala Lumpur. According to Matthew, this instrument is a "one-off masterbuilt strat," crafted by none other than Fender Master Builder Todd Krause. Matthew wanted a guitar patterned after Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Number One," and believe me; he got exactly what he asked for.
Some Specs
Body: solid alder
Finish: "heavy relic" nitro sunburst
Neck: maple
Fretboard: Brazilian Rosewood, 21 medium-jumbo frets, 9.5" radius, rolled edges
Nut: bone
Hardware: "chemically aged"
Pickups: three Alnico 5 single-coils custom-wound by Abigail Ybarra
Tone Caps: Emerson
Notes
Matthew is not a fan of either jumbo or stainless steel frets. He prefers medium-jumbo nickel-silver frets, D'Addario NYXL1046 (nickel wound/regular light) strings, and believes that "tone is in the fingers." I noticed that a couple of dot inlays were missing from the fretboard. When asked about this, he replied that they'd probably "fallen off from playing," and he "couldn't be bothered to replace them."
The information I gathered for this post was obtained from the owner of this gorgeous strat himself, Matthew Chee of Singapore's "Halfway Crooks." The interview was conducted at 4:00 p.m. on December 4th, 2018 at the Bee @ Publika, Kuala Lumpur. According to Matthew, this instrument is a "one-off masterbuilt strat," crafted by none other than Fender Master Builder Todd Krause. Matthew wanted a guitar patterned after Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Number One," and believe me; he got exactly what he asked for.
Some Specs
Body: solid alder
Finish: "heavy relic" nitro sunburst
Neck: maple
Fretboard: Brazilian Rosewood, 21 medium-jumbo frets, 9.5" radius, rolled edges
Nut: bone
Hardware: "chemically aged"
Pickups: three Alnico 5 single-coils custom-wound by Abigail Ybarra
Tone Caps: Emerson
Notes
Matthew is not a fan of either jumbo or stainless steel frets. He prefers medium-jumbo nickel-silver frets, D'Addario NYXL1046 (nickel wound/regular light) strings, and believes that "tone is in the fingers." I noticed that a couple of dot inlays were missing from the fretboard. When asked about this, he replied that they'd probably "fallen off from playing," and he "couldn't be bothered to replace them."
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