This is a customized Fender Strat, model of '86. The woods (alder) are especially selected to give a sharp, crispy but rich tone, (emphasis on rich midtones), appropriate for hammer-on, pull-off and tapping. After a lot of experiments, listening and measurements, the appropriate parts, both by Fender Strat models, were selected (the fretboard is Japanese and the body is American). A great facility is the fretboard of the Strat models, which is wide, spacy and convenient for tapping. The neck is scratched behind in order to be thinned and facilitate transitions from hammering positions to vibrato positions of the hand.
The guitar frame welcomed the superb Ibanez tremolo, patented by Floyd Rose, which has high quality metals for crispier but rich sound and special design for ringing, as its mechanics allow for long-lasting vibration if the tremolo bar is slapped. The body was digged in order to allow for an increase of 9 hemitones for string "G" when the tremolo bar is moved towards the reverse position. The Di'Marzio pickups are screwed directly on the wood. In order to avoid problems of noise feedback that would lead to excess use of noise gates, micromagnets with opposite polarization have been placed inside the wood at the bottom of the pick-ups, after they were first dipped into paraphine, in order to avoid other sources of noise from the electromagnetic field.
A 30-Watt Pea Vey Classic with carefully selected tubes is the heart of my amplification. Since I do not record routinely, I have not invested on a pre-amplifier (I just have a DOD transistor multi-effect rack). These amplifiers are just good for practicing, even though I really like the Pea Vey Classic's tone, given its low Watts.