Kavanagh Customs

For the ultimate guitar project we offer these unfinished alder bodies for Fender Stratocasters. These have been carefully hand-carved from hand-selected timbers and only ever from sustainable sources.

Templated from an original 1962 pre-CBS body ('The original contour body'), it's shape is almost exact in every way. The routing is the classic three single-coils, keeping as much wood as possible present to ensure the very best possible resonance and tone, of course, you can easily route it out further if you intend to use a more exotic pickup combination.

The wood has been prepared and fine-sanded so it's virtually ready for you to apply whatever finish you fancy to it. We also offer unfinished maple necks in store so you could go the whole-hog and do both! We have been intending for a long while to stain an alder body and maple neck in dark blue and then lacquer over it all in clear, just to see what it would look like - not many guitars out there looking like that I'm sure!

This is a blank canvas for the right guitar projecteer - you can do virtually anything you please with a blank body like this!

We can also additionally provide a relicing service for this item if you aren't happy doing such things yourself yet still want a true used vintage appearance, just contact us to find out more!

Please note that this is not a Fender product, nor is it made in a sweatshop in the Far East by children getting paid 10p a day - it's much, much better than that. Like all our items, it has been carefully hand built to exacting standards and dimensions to ensure the highest possible quality, and the perfect fit for Fender, Squier and 98% of the Fender-copy market. We comply directly with Fender's own neck pocket dimensions (see the diagram on the left), although there may still be a small amount of work necessary to ensure a perfect fit.

If you have any doubt over whether any of our work is suitable or not for you, drop us a line, we're always happy to help.

This body has been left completely undrilled to ensure that it is suitable for anyone and everyone's needs - you can fit any type of scratchplate you like without having empty holes left under the scratchplate, you can fit a three or four-bolt neck, you can fit the tremolo system of your choice without the need to worry if the screw and string spacing is compatible with your body, or if the holes in your neck and body will line up. The advantages are endless and most importantly: it guarentees compatibility with the rest of your guitar. Please note that our Telecaster bodies do not come with the string holes pre-drills as standard - making them ideal for top-loading bridges, or else a very easy task to modify in your own home to accomodate a through-body stringing bridge.

Don't see exactly the part you're after?

We can build it for you to your exact specifications - nothing is too weird or whacky!

Contact us for a totally free quote and a chat about your requirements, and click here to see our price lists for custom-builds.

We can also supply all the parts you need to complete your guitar project, from fretwire and string trees to custom-wound pickups and polishing cloths! We will be expanding our shop in the near future so that you can conveniently purchase all these items at once but for the moment, contact us and tell us what it is you're after and we will happily arrange or source the parts you need for you.