Ever regret a modification after completing it?

[xfabianromerox]

I recently switched out my last original Texas Special pickup (middle) because i ****ed up the winding while doing a split tone knob. I switched it for an SSL-5 in the middle. After playing with for a week, I realized It was too muddy and hot for me and I ended up switching it out for the original Texas Special neck and was pleased. I'm starting wonder what if I never touched my strat and left all OEM. I definitely don't regret the SSL-1 or 57 Classic +, but still. Any modifications you guys regretted soon or long after completing?

 

[MetalManiac]

Re: Ever regret a modification after completing it?

not unless it's not reversible. Mods are part of the growing/learning process.

 

[trevorus]

Re: Ever regret a modification after completing it?

Yes. Adding string through on a Tele, and it didn't come out perfectly straight. It frustrates me to no end. It functions perfectly and caused no issues, and it's on the back. It just annoys the hell out of me.

 

[Clint 55]

Re: Ever regret a modification after completing it?

I went no tone knob on my strat mini with a 500k volume pot. It's kind of cool. But I just end up turning the volume up on the amp and down on the guitar to darken the sound instead of just using a tone knob.

 

[xfabianromerox]

Re: Ever regret a modification after completing it?

What do you mean a string through? I've never hear of that !

 

[xfabianromerox]

Re: Ever regret a modification after completing it?

Sounds like replacing all of your tires with square tires because of you being tired of them rolling away in neutral haha!

 

[BriGuy1968]

Re: Ever regret a modification after completing it?

Series/Split/Parallel switch on a Hot Stack. Series and split are good, but the parallel is so quiet that it's unusable.

Varitones too.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: Ever regret a modification after completing it?

Over the course of years I have butchered a Squier Stagemaster to the point where it's lost a lot of wood from both the neck and body, has both a full pickguard and a back route, and has a little sticker of copper foil tape covering up a spot where I slipped with the chisel.

I think the thing I regret most with this one is not stopping after I scalloped it. I should have done a project guitar with a top-quality scalloped neck and a nice Strat body for my Yngwie pickups. Either that, or just bought the Fender signature model.

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: Ever regret a modification after completing it?

I treat mods like tattoos. I won't do it unless I'm willing to live with it for the rest of my life; or else I'd make sure it's temporary.

 

[dave74]

Re: Ever regret a modification after completing it?

I only regret my execution of a couple past mods, not the mod/idea itself.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Ever regret a modification after completing it?

I'm with Dave - the ideas were sound, the craftsmanship wasn't.

The only one I can't reverse is the Krylon refin of a Matsumoku Flying V. I can remove the Krylon, of course, and probably will one day, but the 2 places I should've stopped were (1) Before I started and (2) When I got it down to the bare wood, because it's actually quite nice. Not figured or anything, but still nicer than how it ended up.

Other than that, I can't really think of a mod I've regretted attempting, including the Jackson WRMG body with 140 studs, spikes, and pyramids hammered into the surface and a blood drip finish.

 

[Silence Kid]

Re: Ever regret a modification after completing it?

I suffer from "forbidden fruit/grass is always greener" syndrome; a constant urge to have it both ways. I reversed a previous-owner 250k pot mod to my Jazzmaster by installing 1 megs to make it sound more like my other Jazzmaster, and then spent a good day trying to recapture the pre-mod sound by rolling the tone knob back to the precise correct place. I assembled a "metal" pickguard for my Strat and finally installed it tonight; I'm loving it, but it hasn't stopped the constant nag that tells me I'll suddenly need to bust out a funk lick or something and feel totally lost.

I absolutely won't remove wood. I thought I'd have no issue doing so on a guitar I bought for $50 , but I underestimated myself. I've only ever not questioned one mod, which was swapping pickups in my Mustang; saved the guitar from sale. The worst one for me? Installing the neck pickup in my Jaguar, I ****ed over a winding and actually managed to repair it somehow. The guitar now sounds too good for me to want to take it apart/replace the pickup, no squeals or issue, but it's there.

 

[rumblebox]

Re: Ever regret a modification after completing it?

I wish i hadnt drilled the 3rd hole in my mh-350. I used to want independent volumes, and now i prefer a master vol.

 

[kramersteen]

Re: Ever regret a modification after completing it?

I just glued in a bolt on neck and carved it out like a set in. One of the best mods i have ever done.

ooops

 

[mantis]

Re: Ever regret a modification after completing it?

I don't regret mod's. I use them as a learning tool.
For me tone is a journey to find the tone that will express you as a player. Sometimes it's just boredom as we might think something needs to change and end up finding out what we have or had is exactly what we are trying to replace it with.

 

[KeeperOS]

Re: Ever regret a modification after completing it?

Can't really say "regretted" but the closest I come to what you are describing is when I ordered the Fugly Buckers with the intention of installing them in my new Parker Nitefly single cut.

They were AWFUL, I mean, was there a screw-up-with-the-wiring awful. They were promptly removed from said guitar and ultimately went to my Swing EZ-10 (Mahogany neck-thru) in which they sound AWESOME and the Parker got a Tom Anderson HN3+ and is now my heavy guitar.

As bad as a combination that is was, I cannot say that I regretted trying it out, like MetalManiac said, you try and you learn.

 

[Surgeon]

Re: Ever regret a modification after completing it?

Yeah. I routed for a floyd and shaved the neck of an old les paul my grandpa gave me. Added a middle single coil too while I was at it.
In the end the neck warped and the floyd made it ugly and unplayable so I threw it away. No biggy, he told me he had bought it in the late fifties/early 60s so it was too old to be worh anything right??

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Ever regret a modification after completing it?

Yeah. I routed for a floyd and shaved the neck of an old les paul my grandpa gave me. Added a middle single coil too while I was at it.
In the end the neck warped and the floyd made it ugly and unplayable so I threw it away. No biggy, he told me he had bought it in the late fifties/early 60s so it was too old to be worh anything right??

Winner! I'd have stepped off a chair by now.

 

[dave74]

Re: Ever regret a modification after completing it?

I bet we'd get more horror stories if it was;------ Ever regret taking a guitar to a music-store for a mod or maintenance?
Have a couple of those stories myself but it would take me too long typing and only get me mad all over again lol.
My last music-store mod "experience" at least inspired me to become my own basic-stuff tech saving myself much $ over the years.

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: Ever regret a modification after completing it?

Yeah. I routed for a floyd and shaved the neck of an old les paul my grandpa gave me. Added a middle single coil too while I was at it.
In the end the neck warped and the floyd made it ugly and unplayable so I threw it away. No biggy, he told me he had bought it in the late fifties/early 60s so it was too old to be worh anything right??

Dude, I regret your modification.