Hardtail Strat project!

 Here 's my latest strat project!
  It's a totally affordable project which plays and sounds great. But wait a minute, what's a "Hardtail" strat?
  The hardtail bridge is a fixed bridge system used on strats. It looks like a tremolo but it's a totally fixed bridge made for soild non-tremolo strat bodies. But when a strat body is already rooted for a tremolo, you have to use all your imagination and creativity to fit a hardtail bridge...
  In this case, I bought a Squier Bullet body which was thin and light and installed a wide hardtail on it. To install the bridge properly I had to measure the neck scale. The neck came from an old Yamaha eg112 and it's a nice fender-scaled 22 fret neck which is so playable(much more playable than Squier bullet/affinity necks). The only problem was, the neck had no overhang on the 22nd fret and the intonation couldn't be set right unless I positioned the bridge closer to the neck.
  Then, I bought a Dragonfire H-H black pearl pickguard from TNT guitars and I rooted it a bit to fit right on the Bullet body.  I loaded the pickguard with a set of Hohner ceramic humbuckers, a 5way switch and two 500K pots.
  The guitar was finally set up with 0.09" strings and it sounds really good. The pickups are hot and fat-sounding while the neck is ultra comfortable to play. You can really shred on this Squier/Yamaha strat. The project cost me about 100euros, as much as a Bullet strat guitar but it plays so much better. If only Squier made such a hardtail, H-H, 22-fret bullet... I would buy 4-5 of them! But until then, come on build a strat for yourself! It's really not that difficult. Please share your DIY creation and feel free to ask me any technical question.

Here are some pictures:(open in new tab for full size)