https://www.facebook.com/blurockcustompickups/
https://reverb.com/marketplace?query=drw+custom+guitars+bk63&_aid=kingman
A little while back I was venting on Facebook (how unusual!) that I would probably never be able to afford a decent guitar that was built in the same year I was - 1963. That's when I met Dwight Wood, Master Luthier and owner of DRW Custom Guitars. Dwight wanted a little publicity help and I wanted a 60's-style Strat so we struck a deal and mapped out the build. The BK63 is the result of Dwight's incredible work and my hopes (far surpassed).
If you're interested in a similar build you should contact Dwight through the link above or through DRW Custom Guitar's agent at http://www.brisbaneguitars.com.
The amp used in this video is a custom Vibro-Lux preset I wrote with Fractal Audio's Axe-FX II running FWQ1.06. You can try it yourself by downloading at http://axechange.fractalaudio.com/detail.php?preset=3945. Please note that this preset was written on an Axe-FX II but it should also rip on an Axe FX XL and XL+. Many, MANY thanks to Andrew Farnham and Fractal Audio Systems for their ongoing support and help.
The DRW Custom Guitars BK63's specs:
Body:
• Select one piece light weight Alder body routed for SSS pickup configuration
• Lake Placd Blue nitro lacquer finish topped with nitro clear coat lacquer
Neck:
• Rift sawn 5A flamed maple neck with dark Indian rosewood fretboard (rolled FB edges)
• 21 medium frets
• Clay dot markers on FB, white on side
• 9.5” radius
• Hand shaped ‘Clapton ‘V’ profile
• Vintage trussrod adjuster in heel
• 1960’s light amber oil finish (hand rubbed)
• Camel bone nut
Electronics:
• Blu-rock ‘BK Specials’ single coil hand scatter wound pickups
• CTS 250K VTT pots
• CLR 5 way switch
• Sprague orange drop capacitor
• lower tone control wired to the bridge pickup with top tone knob wired to neck & mid pickups, a treble bleed over the volume pot
Hardware:
• Genuine Gotoh tremolo bridge in gold with solid steel block
• Gotoh locking tuners in gold
• Fender USA gold output jack & neckplate
• Mint Green 3 ply Pickguard
• parchment pickup covers, knobs & tips
Blu-rock Pickup specs are:
• Fibre bobbin flatwork with Alnico 5 magnet rods slightly under-magnetised
• Plain enamel copper used with Ohms outputs for each: Neck = 5.8K | Mid = 6.3K | Br = 6.7K