80's Aria pro II rebuild

  Here's a little guitar project I finished in June. It's a nice Aria pro II strat guitar I bought for under 100$. These late 80's/early 90's guitars are well built and they were made for soloing, shredding etc. So they tend to have very playable thin necks, medium or jumbo frets plus a high radius wide fretboard.
  The hardware on the other side(keys,tremolo), is poorly made and it's worth upgrading it. Any wilkinson type bridge and grover style tunes will do the trick.
  In this case, the hardware of the guitar was upgraded and it had a new set of classic singlecoil pickups on. The vintage style mint green SSS pickguard didn't really match with the all black pointy headstock though. It's like mixing 50's and 80's strat specs... I thought it would be a good idea to put a new single humbucker pickguard on the Aria and a single volume control, just the way they did back in the 80's! 
 A very hot esp pickup was wired on the new H pickguard and now the guitar is totally black and a true 80's shredding machine!

 Check out the following project pictures(open in new tab):