New Marlin superstrat project!

  Here 's a new superstrat project! I recently found a Marlin by Hohner guitar that was on sale for 40euros. It had a broken headstock but I only wanted its floyd loaded H-S-S body to fit a very smooth Jack & Danny maple neck that was lying around! The metallic blue/green finish of the body, the  hardware and the pickups were in very good shape. The bridge pickup was also very hot!
    I picked up this Marlin guitar by a fellow guitarist and started working on it right away. First, I cleaned the guitar, removed the neck and kept it for future projects... Then, I modified the neck pocket of the body for the new neck to fit in properly and have the right intonation. It was a tight fit and after I put a set of .9" strings, the intonation was pretty much Ok! To obtain some tuning stability, I locked the floyd licenced tremolo so that it performs just like a 6-point one(dive only).
  For a little less hum and noise, I put some aluminum foil on the control cavity backplate and voila! The guitar is ready to rock again!

Here are some pictures of the project:

a few necks lying around (J&D, Yamaha, Jackson)

The Marlin guitar before:

                                                                        The body:

 New neck fitted!:

 string (low and high E) alignment

Floyd tremolo locked with a bolt-on metallic stop:

Vintage keys on an superstrat?... Why not?

Glue some aluminum foil on the backplate:

The result!: