Here are my two Hot Rodders. Hope you like!
First up is my tribute to Dave Murray from Iron Maiden. The neck is a 2008 Highway 1 with Jumbo Frets. I installed a Tusq nut, vintage type string tree, the Onyx Forge neck bolt system, and Kluson Deluxe Double Row tuners. The body is a 2006 Highway 1. The only original parts are as follows: tremelo springs, claw, tremelo base plate and saddles, and the input jack cup. All the trem screws, block and trem arm are from Callaham. All pots are CTS from RS, Jenson PIO caps, a CRL 3 way blade switch and Switchcraft output jack. The pickups are a DiMarzio Super Distortion F spaced in the bridge, a DiMarzio Area 58 in the middle and a DiMarzio 36th Anniversary P.A.F. in the neck which are all creme. I used vintage style cloth wire to hook everything up. I half made the pickguard myself. It's a single ply stained white 8 hole that I cut out the pickup positions. On Daves original strat you can see that the neck and bridge pickups are closer to the Neck and Bridge respectivly. I tried to duplicate that as close as possible. The extras I threw on are the trademark 1\8" thick chrome pickup surrounds,creme knobs with gold lettering (not black as on some others), black switch knob, brass trem tip knob, and a set of Dunlop Strap Locks to keep it off the floor. The neck has started to tint some since I took this picture so it's not so harsh looking now. Somewhere down the line I'll probably put the original neck from a Dave Tribute model on it once they are available through Stratosphere on Ebay.
My 2nd customized Strat is a little more simple. It has a 2006 Highway 1 60th Anniversary neck with the same Onyx Forge mounting system. I installed Fender 70's style tuners, a vintage string tree, and the Earvana nut. The body is a 2007 Mexican Strat. The tremelo is flat to the body and I put in the block that originally came in the Highway 1 above. The screws are also all from Callaham. The bridge saddles are the new kind from Graphtech. They are chrome plated stainless steel with the graphite inserts in the string ramp. All electronics are the same as above. The Pickups are all DiMarzios; Super Distortion 3 in the bridge and Virtual Vintage Heavy Blues 2 in the mid and neck. I'm most likely to replace the bridge pup with a regular Super distortion. As you can see, black hardware on the body and Dunlop Strap locks here too.
My SG is customized too but that's another story.