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A custom left handed Delonge spec Strat project

A custom left handed Delonge spec Strat project

I was contacted last year, as to whether left handed versions of the Tom Delonge signature Stratocaster were readily available. Which of course the answer, was sadly, no. Fender haven't put out a lefty version of this popular pop punk signature guitar, which is a shame really. Although I'm sure the LH guitar playing community is well used to this exclusion from popular RH production models.
I suggested to the inquiring customer the various ways you could capture the idea, through a mod project, refinishing and customising an existing guitar, via a luthier brand for a custom build or a partscaster too. After a bit of discussion, the customer asked if I could quote on a quality, as close to spec partscaster version and we went ahead with the project. My brief essentially was to capture absolutely as many details from the modern production of the Fender instrument, but of course, left handed. 

— James P Gascoigne
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Left handed CIJ Fender Stratocaster - Setup and wiring tweak

Left handed CIJ Fender Stratocaster - Setup and wiring tweak

Roger kindly brought in his CIJ Fender Strat for a bit of TLC. It had suffered a fall, but thankfully only suffered very minor damage as a result. It had fell head on with an edge on the fretboard, and only damage was the edge pressing the strings into the fretwire. It had marked a couple of frets with the strings, but it wasn't deep by any means so nothing a minor fret level, crown and polish wouldn't resolve. As this is part of the setup process here anyway, to get the very best from the setup and guitar's play-ability, this was no trouble at all to resolve. With a few passes with the leveling file and radius block, those dents were a distant memory and I cracked on with the crown, polish then setup work as normal. 
— James P Gascoigne
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