daan
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I typed out this whole long post, and the forum logged me out before I was done, so I lost it (twice now :headache: )
So being brief:
I have all these projects going on, I thought posting them here would get me to actually FINISH them. That, and I didn't actually know how many guitars I had. I got the dreaded "Just how many DO you have?" from the spouse, and couldn't tell her... I guessed 8 but ended up with 14... :laugh2:
ANyway, here goes:
1.
Tele style, Daphne blue ash body, Quarter Pounder bridge, P90 neck pickup, 4-way switch for in-series, custom made Strat headstock neck, vintage 3-saddle bridge. All I gotta do is assemble and wire.
2.
Another Tele. JB-Jr bridge pup, Gibson mini humbucker neck pup, Squier Bullet neck (can you tell I like Strat headstocks on Teles?) I have a "Super Switch" for multi-switching options, but apparently I'm not smart enough to wire it correctly :laughing:
I had a Saga kit that I'd been working on since ...2006 (embarrased) and in going thru different combinations of stuff, and my plumbing flooding my work area I ended up with enough parts to make both of these.
3.
I had a "parts caster" STrat with a ridiculously heavy body, but I loved everything else about it (color, neck, SD SSL-whatever pups, heavy brass block tremolo) so I'd been looking for a lighter weight body for it. Well, this one showed up at the used store and I grabbed it. It turned out to be an older Squier body, actually made of plywood. But it weighs a little over 3lbs and the color is just perfect so I'm using it anyway. I've owned enough plywood beaters that it doesn't bother me, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter for the sound either)
4.
My first decent guitar was a "JB Player" strat copy. The neck on it was absolutely perfect, nut width, back contour, everything. Well, I found another one on Ebay in the late 90s. I kept the neck, because it was the best part of the guitar. These all came with a crappy fake Kahler that broke, and didn't hold tune anyway. I ended up just replacing the body (with an MIM one) instead of fooling with filling the swimming pool left behind by the old bridge. This one has "Hot Stack" pups and a big brass block tremolo. I just have to finish soldering the wiring together and it's done.
5.
This one is cool, it's a neck-thru S type. It's hard maple neck and "soft maple" wings so it isn't as heavy as it sounds. My first guitar was a bolt-on neck JBP, they also sold these neck thru ones, but I just couldn't afford a $300 guitar in 1986. I found this one on Ebay right after buying the one above. I tried putting a real Kahler on this one, but because the bridge mounts to a plate, you're supposed to shim the neck up the thickness of the plate, but being a neck-thru, I can't do that. I either need to recess the bridge plate, or just fill the giant bridge hole and mount the bridge directly. Oh yeah, Kahler 7300, SD Hot Rail pups, when I had it together to test it out it sounded HUUUUUGE. I gotta get my wood skills up and finish this.
6.
I always wanted an acoustic 12, this is the one I could afford. Because it needed tuners, a nut, a saddle, and a new bridge plate. But hey, now I have an acoustic 12... and no time to fix it. It's a Sigma with rosewood back/sides, once it's all together it should sound great.
7.
70's Hondo II Jazz copy. Solid ash, AWESOME fat neck, all the hardware has been replaced with stuff off a recent Squier Jazz a friend was modding. I do have the original fake humbuckers, but they don't work. I also have a pair of Basslines to go in it, once I have time that is.
8.
I had a couple Epiphone LP-Jr's. THe $99 plywood kind. THey played and sounded just fine, other than the bridge posts leaning forward in the soft plywood over time... I was planning on making a new body out of "real" wood for them, but found this DC Jr already cut and painted, for way less than a body blank was gonna cost. The bridge posts aren't drilled yet, so setting the intonation correctly won't be a problem. The pickup now being more a "middle" than a "bridge" might be for purists, but I won't care.
I had a Saga Tele kit, and both Jr's apart to work on in my work area, and the plumbing in the ceiling above my bench leaked all over and ruined all my guitars. I'm gonna blame that incident on why I have so many bits and parts here...yeah. It's not ME, it's our leaky plumbing!
9.
70's Hondo II LP-doublecut. I've always liked the Ace Frehly "ACE" DC, and when I saw this thing at the used store, I had to grab it. Even though it looked thoroughly thrashed and was missing most of it's wiring. It seriously looked like someone took a weed eater to it, the sides and back were completely gouged. I planed it all down and smoothed it out, I just need to deal with the paper thin veneer on the top (which is 5 pieces anyway, it's probably coming off) It's all real wood, with a set neck and came with Dimarzio pickups. I sold the pups back to the store, so I only paid about $30 for what I have. I was planning on painting this all black, and maybe putting "drum wrap" on the top like the Gretsch Sparkle Jets. Or just using the "glitter blast" paint I have for it... I have a set of the "Gretsch Buckers" that new Electromatic Gretsches come with plus Tone Pro's bridge and tailpiece. I was gonna do a trapeze type tail, but this guitar is almost as thin as an SG (and weighs just under 6lbs) so none of them are thin enough to attatch properly.
10.
Gretsch Corvette. I got this as a stripped hulk, I put it together with what I had on hand and it just was SO GOOD I want to do it up right. Which means spending over $500 for a set of SD "Custom Shop" "Tall Boy" P90 in Filtertron size cases. I have this pickguard for a single pup Jr configuration, and a 2-pickup guardplate to make it more like they come now. I'm not putting a Bigsby on it though, I basically never use tremolo when I play. This is the guitar I'd pretty much get rid of all my other (non-bass) guitars for, if I had any hope of getting enough $ to finish the rest of my stuff.
So not shown is the sunburst Strat with the "Jimi Hendrix" guardplate (reverse slant bridge pup) with Hot Rails, or the # actual playable guitars I have out... I REALLY need some free time to finish these. GET TO WORK YOU LAZY SOB...
