7s' 2008 Fender Standard Stratocaster HSS (Lake Placid Blue)

My goal with this guitar was to play around with the electronics, replacing the pickups and pots and try to turn a lower cost Mexi-Strat into a very flexible tone machine!  So far, it is working great.  I've replaced the stock pickups with two Lindy Fralin vintage hot single coils and the humbucker is a Lindy Fralin Pure PAF.  It sounds awesome!  I replaced the white pickguard with a Fender pearloid one so it is pretty easy to tell which shots are the before and after shots.

I also installed an Acme Guitar Works Tone Shaper which lets me play around with different capacitors and electronics configurations without a ton of soldering.  It is currently set up with the volume kit to keep from rolling off treble as the volume is decreased, a .033uF capacitor on the tone knob and a blender knob which lets me mix in the opposite pickup in switch positions 1,2,4 or 5.  I recorded some little snippets before and after the pickup swap so I'll see if I can show the tonal difference between the two sets.

Update: September 5, 2010: I changed the pickups again and put on a silver reflective pickguard.  It shows lots of fingerprints but it also makes for some great pictures!