Modding my first guitar

[A Skater]

Okay, I currently have a fat strat copy with a MIA fender body, a rosewood neck (not fender or even squier), a pearl pickguard, duncan invader as the humbucker and chrome knobs. PLease mind the stickers, those are local store stickers.

Okay, I was thinking of either buying a neck for this one and buying a new pickguard so it can only have one pickup, therefor looking like this

Should I do that, or just buy the squier and sand off the color to something like red and throw in a duncan invader/duncan designed?

 

[danglybanger]

Re: Modding my first guitar

I'd say your guitar is probably (definitely, almost...) better than a Squier bullet. Probably goes for the neck also... whatever it is Bullets also are a bit thinner than normal strat bodies... definitely worse quality (on average" than your MIA strat body. it would probably be cheaper in the long run to get a new warmoth neck for your strat, and a new pickguard. Rather than buying a squier and having to replace everything on it.
my two cents anyway.
slade

 

[A Skater]

Re: Modding my first guitar

Okay, if I mod my guitar, I got a Q. How would I place only one pick up? Since I have the HSS setup, what do I do to the other pick ups/knobs before I change the pickguard?

 

[FretFire]

Re: Modding my first guitar

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slade

Hahahaha, that's awesome.

 

[big_black]

Re: Modding my first guitar

Okay, if I mod my guitar, I got a Q. How would I place only one pick up? Since I have the HSS setup, what do I do to the other pick ups/knobs before I change the pickguard?

You should just buy my guitar, then you won't have to do anything! https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?t=24691

 

[A Skater]

Re: Modding my first guitar

I would d00d, but I don't got $500 to spend. If anything 300, but that's going towards my amp.

 

[mrfjones]

Re: Modding my first guitar

i would just make a whole new wiring harness, it would be really easy, just un solder the invader and the jack oh yeah and the ground. lift the old pickguard with switch, knobs and pickups out and put the invader into the new guard and wire it directly to the volume knob and that output to the jack, ground your pickup, volume pot and jack and screw the new guard on. leave all the holes and open spaces in your strat body cause you might want to change it back one day. Good luck

 

[bluey@sunni]

Re: Modding my first guitar

You have just started down the path of REAL guitarists, every guitar you own is in some way, shape or form will be an extension of you. This means custom. All of my guitars are modified; home built Strat back in high school, a 27 year old Yamaha FG335a acoustic (this was the cheapest student model my parents could get, now fitted with bone nut and saddle, a piezo saddle pick-up and after market non-Gotoh tuners; really sweet tone both ways) and a freebie Hi-Lo that is going to be my slide guitar when I get to finishing it.
First make sure the guitar is set up properly with correct intonation and action.
Second chose your pick-up, pretty easy with the wide selection of Duncans. It really depends on what you do/ how much you want to alienate parents/neighbours etc.
Third put in a tone control/pick-up switch(parallel/series/single) and don't ever stop trying something new. What works for me doesn't mean it works for you, I built my Strat over 20 years ago and it does tones that Tony Joe White would kill for and a pretty good SRV.