Anyone else have weird guitar ideas?

Mincer

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There isn't one comepany that makes the idea guitar for me- I always want to change something. Maybe it has an awesome neck, great pickups, but no piezo. I generally don't like vintage styles, 80s styles, modern/retro styles, etc.
For a performing instrument, no matter what I choose, I gotta mod it- I must just be quirky, or my needs just aren't being met very well. Playing midi guitar is part of that, as well as liking locking tuners, Duncans (HH), piezo pickups, scalloped necks, rounded corners, light weight, low action, smaller body shape, and raw or satin finished wood. So far, I just get a guitar that has most of that and mod the rest.
If a company made the guitar I wanted, it would never sell, though. Well at least not to anyone else. Anyone else have strange things that they *need* on guitars that they ain't getting from a stock one?
 
Re: Anyone else have weird guitar ideas?

Absolutly, thats why I am building, modding, repairing, guitars now. Like my avatar, thats my current project.
 
Re: Anyone else have weird guitar ideas?

Mmm. No one makes a double cut archtop 24 3/4" string thru set neck with a piezo. At least, no one I know of.
 
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Well out of my 10 or so guitars only one is completely stock and 5 of them are custom built so you are not so crazy.
 
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i seem to never like the sound of stock pickups. i replaced all the pups on my mexi strat and im going to get a good set of humbuckers for my les paul classic premium +. have to get them in the zebra color tho, that would look sick with the AAA flame and creme pickup rings...
 
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Oh yeah man, all of my guitars are custom. Some are minorly modded, others were completely repainted, gutted, and redone. Pretty soon, most of my pedals will also be modded. And as soon as I get the cash to let Jeff Seal work his magic on my amp, even my AMP will be modded. Oh yeah, unless I find a 412 with Greenbacks for a reasonable price, yeah I'll have to make one.

People like me and you mincer... I think we have a disease. Before I look at a guitar to buy, I'm thinking about mods to it.
 
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All of my guitars are modded but look somewhat stock. I like to keep them looking somewhat normal. My next guitar will be somewhat of a departure for me. I'm thinking of building a parts-o-caster with a strat body, maple neck, locking Schallers, LSR rolling nut, 6 hole Wilkinson trem, and 3 Firebird style mini humbuckers.

I think that this would work well, don't you? :)
 
Re: Anyone else have weird guitar ideas?

Mincer said:
Anyone else have strange things that they *need* on guitars that they ain't getting from a stock one?
yes, an intonatable bridge on a PRS :laugh2:
 
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