Back in the 1970's, pre-lawsuit guitar factory 'Fujigen' in Japan was still legally churning out tons of guitars, some badged as Arbiter, Ibanez, Greco - All were pretty bang on copies that are quite valuable today, some however were a bit cobbled together..

This Antoria Strat copy came to the Workshed with half a broken nut, cracked plastic bridge saddles, tone pots disconnected, a thick bone bridge saddle used as a shim, completely worn and unlevel frets, and a bad string break-angle due to a badly cut neck pocket.

I've put a new radius in the worn (but good rosewood) fretboard, a full Stainless Steel Refret, a new handcrafted bone nut, new jack output, the tone pots wiring back up, new bridge saddles, tuners, realigning the neck and body plus a final setup. An odd thing to note about this guitar is that it has a Gibson scale length of 24.75', odd for a Strat, the nut slot was 38cm long, meaning I had to cut a bespoke string spacing and the bridge only fits saddles at 9.75cm rather than the standard 10.5

Plays and sounds amazing and now has the feel of a played in '62 Fender Strat!

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