Look what i got 2 min ago

I have owned a few strat copies and here is what i have done.

Stripped the paint off( long and detailed but fun)
Change pickups.
Add A 9v BATTERY!(the battery will just enhance the pickups you just bought)
tuners, the locking kind
if you are going to change your trem, i would suggest a bigsby, just because they are cool.
a black pickgaurd, so you can be like David Gilmore! (he just had a black strat, and changed his pickgaurd from white to black, and left the knobs and pick up covers white. It looks very cool.)
A New neck. This might be difficult because it might not fix exactly. Measure twice buy once.

thats it. good luck have a blast.

Originally Posted by: guitarmodI have owned a few strat copies and here is what i have done.

Stripped the paint off( long and detailed but fun)
Change pickups.
Add A 9v BATTERY!(the battery will just enhance the pickups you just bought)
tuners, the locking kind
if you are going to change your trem, i would suggest a bigsby, just because they are cool.
a black pickgaurd, so you can be like David Gilmore! (he just had a black strat, and changed his pickgaurd from white to black, and left the knobs and pick up covers white. It looks very cool.)
A New neck. This might be difficult because it might not fix exactly. Measure twice buy once.

thats it. good luck have a blast.

If you do all that crap to a guitar you shouldn't spend more than $80 bucks for it! the only thing original on that thing is the body, and you murdered the paint! and just out of personal preference, i hate battery powered anything having to do with my guitar, amp or pedals! the batteries run out way to quickly, and get annoying to change.

Do this ;)

p.s. check out the action :eek: i think it is a miniature

The whole reason I want to go ape nuts on this thing is because it cost $80. Even if I don't really like it in the end , so what? I would hate to try to mod out an $800-$1200 guitar and then not like it. I'm 23, this won't be the last strat bodied guitar I will get. So if I don't like this one when I'm done I can put these mods on the next strat-like axe I get. I just wanna try some things and get used to modding my stuff because we all know practice makes perfect. Thanks everyone for all the advice. :)

well the first thing i would do is egt a locking system...i find with whammy bars if they dont have a locking system they go out of tune really easy and really bad...first suggestion...locking systems like floyd rose and **** are a bitch to use..but they keep your guitar in tune....not a bad guitar for 80 bucks my friend