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stratobastard

Lance designed the stratobastard to fit his own needs - big hands, big show, and big sound. Some specs:

Neck: 1 3/4-inch at the nut, three-piece bird's eye maple neck with a maple fingerboard, custom copyrighted inlays of blue pauw shells. The entire neck was radiused to fit his hand by Doug Darling at Soul Mate Guitars, who collaborated on the design.
Body: The body is custom contoured and rerouted by Lance so that all controls and switches could be moved from the playing area. He custom designed the pick guard to mount the switches and controls. All hardware is gold-plated and finished off with a Wilkinson tremelo.
Pick-ups: Di Marzio. Virtual Vintage 2.2 pick-ups were custom-wound to be used with swamp ash guitar bodies and maple neck and fingerboards. The rear Virtual Vintage Blues pick-up is specially designed for playing the blues.
Straplocks: Dunlop
Tuners: Gotoh locking
Paint: base coat of black, three coats ofcustom blue metal flake suspended in clear, and three coats of clear on top

fender showmaster

Lance converted this well-used guitar from three to two single coils and a humbucker, which entailed rerouting for the humbucker and making a custom black mounting ring.The entire guitar has been re-cleared. This is a work in progress as Lance faces rewiring. This guitar is finished and is now for sale.

original 1964 fender jazzmaster

When Lance played his 1964 Fender Jazzmaster in The Eighth Day, a 1960s rock band, he painted flowers on the front, grapevines and blues power on the back. It wore the test of time on the road. After the band broke up, the guitar sat apart for 22 years. He recently restored it close to its original condition. He re-sanded and re-sealed the body. After two failed attempts at matching the original color, he happened by chance to find the right color on a Honda motorcycle – candy apple red with a silver base, only used in 1964. Everything is original except fot the pickguard which was replaced because the original one shrunk during the 22 years the guitar was apart.

Pictures of the Jazzmaster before restoration coming soon.

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stratobastard

fender showmaster

original 1964 fender jazzmaster

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