... whatever you want to call it, im building one. Have just taken delivery of the body this week and will post as I go. Could be a while as and when I can spare the expense to move onto the next part. Aiming to have a Strat of the sort of quality it would cost you c.£1.5k to buy branded off the shelf for around half the price. 2 piece ash body and with a grain like that it will be getting stained, no way im covering that in cheap polyvinyl