Projects and plans...

ItsaBass

ItsaBass

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I woke up too early and couldn't get back to sleep. So I was lying there in bed thinking that I have plans for so many of my guitars. Almost every one of them needs (well, not needs...) something. It's a bit overwhelming.

What plans and projects have you got in the works?

Here are some of mine:

Blue Japanese '50's-style Strat:

- replace 500K push/pull pots with 250Ks so I can use the 500Ks in my Dean ML
- replace faulty middle pickup tone pot

Cream Japanese '50's Strat w/ EMGs:

- Replace switch and wire it right (nearly 20 years ago, I wired it purposefully reversed, so that pos. 1 is up and pos. 5 is back)
- Fill old pickguard screw holes and redrill
- Fill old bridge holes and reposition bridge so it doesn't hit the pickguard
- Make a spacer for the back cover, so that the cover clears the two 9V batteries in the vibrato cavity
- Finish cleaning old oil finish from between frets
- Level the frets
- Refinish the neck in either thin lacquer or Tru-Oil

Sage green metallic MIM Strat:

- Level frets
- Install Tusq XL nut
- Replace CS '54 pickups with Di'Marzio True Velvets
- Replace sticking push/pull pot while I'm in there
- Fill chips with nail polish
- Buff body and neck to bring back the original shine that I dulled down a while back

Black Paisley MIM Strat:

- Install better bridge
- Install Tusq XL nut
- Install locking tuners
- Switch positions of neck and middle pickups
- Install a different humbucker (hopefully a PG+ instead of the covered Seth)
- Change the wiring to three push/pulls instead of two (series/parallel B+M, neck-on, and humbucker series/parallel)
- Possibly install three Firebird-looking mini-hums down the road

G&L Legacy Rustic:

- Fill the fake chips with black nail polish and buff out the guitar
- Replace fake aged hardware with shiny hardware
- Install Tusq XL nut
- Install locking tuners

G&L pine Legacy:

- Install Tusq XL nut
- Install locking tuners
- Fix that one flared up area of the pick guard (bad guard fit; it doesn't quite sit flush along the neck joint)

CS Esquire:

- Move neck a hair outward so the pick guard can sit better over the existing screw holes
- Replace knobs with custom ordered Rutters fine-knurl dome knobs instead of the stock Fender Broadcaster knobs

Home-built green Esquire:

- Make pick guard to complete the project
- Eventually replace 9-1/2" radius fat U neck with a 7-1/4" radius fat V neck
- Replace nickel knobs with chrome knobs, so the hardware all matches

'04 LP Standard:

- Replace stock electronics with 500K pots, lower cap values, and '50's wiring
- Install Faber ABR-1 with the tap-in studs
- Install Tusq XL nut
- Replace standard thumb cutters with Gibson Historic thumb cutters
- Replace stock Kluson-clone, yellow keystone tuners with Klusons that have the swirly, milky buttons
- Find a switch washer that matches the pickup rings and pick guard better (preferably with the correct '59 lettering)

'83 LP Custom:

- Find period-correct humbucker ring screws and pickup height screws
- Find period-correct pick guard and bracket
- Find period-correct strap buttons
- Find the right hold-down screw for the electronics shield
- THEN SELL IT

'04 Dean Z Pro:

- Have S.D. install the original matte chrome covers from the stock pickupss ('59/JB) onto a new set of Slash pickups
- Replace the pots that are crapping out
- Install series parallel push/pulls
- Convert from V/V/T to V/T/T

'12 Dean ML 35th Anniversary:

- Replace double-cream Super Distortions with double-cream Humbucker from Hells w/ gold poles (or maybe covered HFHs)
- Replace black, cheap nut with white Tusq XL nut
- Replace chrome Grovers with gold Grover Imperials with push-in adapter bushings
- Replace crappy, slightly-out-of-position chrome bridge w/ correctly-located gold Faber ABR-1 with the tap-in studs
- Convert from V/V/T to V/T/T
- Install two push/pulls for series/parallel
- Refret with gold skinny fret wire (old Fender style)
- Put some black tape over that ugly RoHS stamp on the head

'06 white Gibson Explorer (ebony board):

- Fill tuner holes, jack plate holes, pick guard holes, and bridge anchor holes
- Remove the tremendous amounts of router flash from the cavities (Gibson ought to be embarrassed by stuff like that)
- Smooth over the transition from the flat sides of the fretboard to the curved neck
- Or possibly install bright white neck binding instead
- If adding binding, might as well put skinny 6230 frets in as well
- Install Tusq XL nut
- Paint either black or Dakota Red over the white
- Install gold vintage-style keystone tuners
- Install gold ABR-1
- Install my custom-made '58-style jack plate
- Re-install my custom-made '58-style pick guard (no "cut corner" near the bridge)
- Fashion flush-fitting, black tailpiece anchor plugs
- Install gold Maestro Vibrola
- Replace 1M pots with 500K pots
- Install gold pot washers/nuts
- Install push/pulls for coil splitting
- Replace standard gold thumb cutters with Historic-spec thumb cutters
- Install DI'Marzio Bluesebuckers with gold poles, studs, and trim rings
- Find better quality gold humbucker ring screws (the plating comes off way too quick on the ones that are there)

It's all really quite ridiculous. I don't even play guitar in a band any more - just bass!

But still, I'd love to hear all about you all's projects and plans.
 
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I like this idea and I'll join in!

Godin Radiator-
add a 3 way switch I'll be pulling off a cheap bolt-on LP body I have.
cleaning up and fixing the wiring, and gluing the pots in place as they spin.
get some Elixir 9s on it
In the future I'd like to add a chrome Stetsbar for hardtails.

Epiphone EB3-
Get a new bridge from Hipshot or a Badass if they make a 3 point.
Tighten the pots down, maybe replace the Sidewinder tone pot with a different value.
Get a nice 3in leather strap with locks/washers on it. I'll probably just make it and add a pick holder to the strap.
Possibly look into pickup changes. DiMarzio makes a couple Sidewinder replacements and a minihumbucker from SD.

Hamer Scarab II
I should strip it :\ If I do that, I'll probably also cork the body. I'm not interested in Floyd Roses, especially that PITA no-fine-tuner one I have.
If I don't strip it, I'll still block off the trem. I'd like to sell the NOS Floyd and do something else with it. Maybe a 2pt and block that off.
Getting some decent pickups in it would be nice. I need a bridge pickup for sure, and would like a get a set. Detonators, rails, or something else that looks different and METAL.
If I don't strip it, I'll be making a "binding" of sorts. I'm going to tool a piece of belt leather with a cephalopod motif, dye it deep purple and wrap it around the body of the guitar. I'll skive the edges down so it will smoothly cap the dinged-up edges and cover up all those marks. I may make a leather rondele with an evil pentagramatic design on it in purple and use as a pickguard of sorts.
I'll probably find some applique MOP sticker and make a cheapo inlay on the neck. a Tree of Life, only tentacles, teeth and eyeballs. It'll look funky-fresh with the LEDs lit up. I wish I could alter them to purple; maybe blue overlay on the yellow?
If I do strip it, I'll probably just do a sensible aged burst of some sort on it. I'll have to paint it as it'll have a big chunk of other wood in it. Maybe I should keep a FR in it strictly to keep the body unadulterated. It's a nice big chunk of mahogany, so I imagine it looks nice.

I need a Nighthawk, be it Gibson or Epiphone. Period. I'd like to slap some SDs in a Honeyburst and be done until I'm sick of the neck sucking and have someone rework it.

I'd also like to make a neck-thru guitar with a symmetrical shape and a P-bass.
 
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Right now I'm working on a rare 1995 Washburn MG 112 project. I bought the body and neck as unfinished NOS pieces. the body with the exception of the wiring channels was ready for assembly but unfinished. The neck was completed but the nut never slotted and is unusual in that it is bound and had full size jumbo frets rather that the normal 6105's.
The normal production guitars from an add in 1995.

What I now own in other Washy MG's.
Pre production Prototype for the MG 122

95 MG 120

95 MG 102

The new one under construction

[URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/rutledri/media/NOS%20Washburn%20MG%20neck%20and%20body/DSCF0283.jpg.html]
It's getting a Chrome Gotoh Floyd.

I have the correct Washburn labeled Gotoh locking tuners and will use no lock nut ( my other MG's with this system and Wilkersons are ROCK stable in tuning!!), Zebra SD PG and Custom 8 pickups that will be direct mounted and a 5 way.
The color of the body is still undecided but will be a solid color likely a really vibrant ruby red or Purple in a HOC candy over gold metallic, Metallic or in a pearl with all chrome hardware.
 
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Ok, I'll share what's going on in the southern tip of Africa...

First and foremost I have 2 guitar bodies already cut, another 3 pending and a whole list of future builds. I'm busy with my prototyping stages so most of these will only get GFS or other OEM parts...
I also have heaps of other projects lined up but I just can't help procrastinate....

The first of the 2 is a solid pine telecaster body. That's gonna be built in traditional blackguard style, standard switching, standard setup. Still need to build a neck for this one although I've amassed all the other parts. Pickups are GFS premium 50's Tele pickups.

The second is an American ash blank that I still have to hollow out and cap in some figured walnut in a thinline style body.
This one is getting Retrotron pickups, an X-trem and a les paul control layout.
Still needs a neck. I'm thinking cream walnut with a bubinga fretboard.

The 3 pending bodies:

1) an American Ash p-bass with a plain maple neck (I'd have to sell my kidneys to afford flamed maple down here....) and possibly a kiaat fretboard.

2) a mahogany superstrat, ultra thin, maple neck, imbuia fretboard. Gonna shape this like my X-1. Rout it HSS and stick in a Duncan Designed Detonator with an A2 and some DD SC101's in. I plan on mounting the HB on e Telecaster style humbucker bridge.

3) this was going to be a Jazzmaster but thanks to a little gift I may not proceed with this one just yet... (More on this later.)

Bonus) I still have a mahogany 335 centre body blank that I need to fix up for that build... Somehow the template got screws up and I only realised after I'd cut the body..... That's a personal build, all carved. I planned on doing it HSH with a BB3 in the bridge, a P94 in the middle and either a Pearly Gates or a '57 classic in the neck. Triple shots, phase switching, series parallel, bridge pickup on mod and a piezo bridge. This one needs time....

Future projects:
- A les paul to get the hang of the top carving for my 335
- A strat preferably from spruce
- A fender Starcaster copy
- A laminated gibson 335 body for which I need to build a vacuum press
- winding my own pickups
- Invent time travel...

The other work:
- I have yet to change the pickups in my Yorktown (still need some cheap choices)
- I have a basswood squier Tele HH body to repair and do something with
- A squier strat that I have to strip and refinish because it's covered in 2mm thick paint...
- Sell off most of my junk
- Cut some nut blanks from the Hippo and Cape Buffalo bone I procured (perks of being in Africa :) )
- Finish all my templates....

The Jazzmaster:

So upon hearing of my obsession with the JM, a fellow for unite on the South African guitar forum gave my his old genuine, 1961 Fender Jazzmaster as a repair project. The guitar has been beaten to hell before he got it with deep gouges in the fretboard, the paint all but gone, missing tuners, the bridge was gone and had been replaced by an acoustic bridge that was glued to the top, a makeshift pickguard built up from various guitars and one of the original pickups was broken.
He got it and got a SD vintage jazz pickup for the bridge, a new scratch plate, had it refinished and rewired, replaced the remaining tuners with Klusons and planed the gouges out of the fretboard (with the consequence of losing the radius)
From there it sat under a bed for a while until he decided to pass it on to me.

Now I have a great job ahead of me. My father, from whom I got my love of woodworking, has taken an interest in my guitar building and especially this restoration job. He insists we bring it back to its Fullerton factory glory and don't cheap out on anything.
I have to rewire the entire thing, rewind the pickup, steam of the fretboard and source some Indian rosewood to replace it (it's hard to find in my parts), replace any broken parts, and just get it back to the guitar it once was. I've been warned against refinishing it in any way and to keep all the dings, knocks, scrapes and dents for mojo's sake :) this one's also personal and a lifetime keeper for me. It's gonna take a lot of money and time but hopefully it will be worth it.

On top of this all, I'm a full time architecture student (many sleepless nights there...) in a town an hour away (travel is a B****), I still have to find a job in the not too distant future, explore the world, start a band that lasts longer than the lifespan of a housefly, have fun, make friends, make enemies, get famous, fall from grace, I still have to find love in someone who won't judge me for the exorbitant amount of gear I have, get married, start a family, provide for them, have a midlife crisis and buy a Porsche and a custom shop PRS, possibly dominate the world (I haven't really decided...), live a fulfilling life and fill it with memories so that by the time I hit 52.61 years of age (average life expectancy, but I'm blue collar/well off so I'll probably live longer...) I can look back and say "yeah, I've done my fair share... I'm ready to go now"

There aren't enough hours in a day 😭😭😭
 
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Chocklit_Thunda said:
Ok, I'll share what's going on in the southern tip of Africa...

First and foremost I have 2 guitar bodies already cut, another 3 pending and a whole list of future builds. I'm busy with my prototyping stages so most of these will only get GFS or other OEM parts...
I also have heaps of other projects lined up but I just can't help procrastinate....

The first of the 2 is a solid pine telecaster body. That's gonna be built in traditional blackguard style, standard switching, standard setup. Still need to build a neck for this one although I've amassed all the other parts. Pickups are GFS premium 50's Tele pickups.

The second is an American ash blank that I still have to hollow out and cap in some figured walnut in a thinline style body.
This one is getting Retrotron pickups, an X-trem and a les paul control layout.
Still needs a neck. I'm thinking cream walnut with a bubinga fretboard.

The 3 pending bodies:

1) an American Ash p-bass with a plain maple neck (I'd have to sell my kidneys to afford flamed maple down here....) and possibly a kiaat fretboard.

2) a mahogany superstrat, ultra thin, maple neck, imbuia fretboard. Gonna shape this like my X-1. Rout it HSS and stick in a Duncan Designed Detonator with an A2 and some DD SC101's in. I plan on mounting the HB on e Telecaster style humbucker bridge.

3) this was going to be a Jazzmaster but thanks to a little gift I may not proceed with this one just yet... (More on this later.)

Bonus) I still have a mahogany 335 centre body blank that I need to fix up for that build... Somehow the template got screws up and I only realised after I'd cut the body..... That's a personal build, all carved. I planned on doing it HSH with a BB3 in the bridge, a P94 in the middle and either a Pearly Gates or a '57 classic in the neck. Triple shots, phase switching, series parallel, bridge pickup on mod and a piezo bridge. This one needs time....

Future projects:
- A les paul to get the hang of the top carving for my 335
- A strat preferably from spruce
- A fender Starcaster copy
- A laminated gibson 335 body for which I need to build a vacuum press
- winding my own pickups
- Invent time travel...

The other work:
- I have yet to change the pickups in my Yorktown (still need some cheap choices)
- I have a basswood squier Tele HH body to repair and do something with
- A squier strat that I have to strip and refinish because it's covered in 2mm thick paint...
- Sell off most of my junk
- Cut some nut blanks from the Hippo and Cape Buffalo bone I procured (perks of being in Africa :) )
- Finish all my templates....

The Jazzmaster:

So upon hearing of my obsession with the JM, a fellow for unite on the South African guitar forum gave my his old genuine, 1961 Fender Jazzmaster as a repair project. The guitar has been beaten to hell before he got it with deep gouges in the fretboard, the paint all but gone, missing tuners, the bridge was gone and had been replaced by an acoustic bridge that was glued to the top, a makeshift pickguard built up from various guitars and one of the original pickups was broken.
He got it and got a SD vintage jazz pickup for the bridge, a new scratch plate, had it refinished and rewired, replaced the remaining tuners with Klusons and planed the gouges out of the fretboard (with the consequence of losing the radius)
From there it sat under a bed for a while until he decided to pass it on to me.

Now I have a great job ahead of me. My father, from whom I got my love of woodworking, has taken an interest in my guitar building and especially this restoration job. He insists we bring it back to its Fullerton factory glory and don't cheap out on anything.
I have to rewire the entire thing, rewind the pickup, steam of the fretboard and source some Indian rosewood to replace it (it's hard to find in my parts), replace any broken parts, and just get it back to the guitar it once was. I've been warned against refinishing it in any way and to keep all the dings, knocks, scrapes and dents for mojo's sake :) this one's also personal and a lifetime keeper for me. It's gonna take a lot of money and time but hopefully it will be worth it.

On top of this all, I'm a full time architecture student (many sleepless nights there...) in a town an hour away (travel is a B****), I still have to find a job in the not too distant future, explore the world, start a band that lasts longer than the lifespan of a housefly, have fun, make friends, make enemies, get famous, fall from grace, I still have to find love in someone who won't judge me for the exorbitant amount of gear I have, get married, start a family, provide for them, have a midlife crisis and buy a Porsche and a custom shop PRS, possibly dominate the world (I haven't really decided...), live a fulfilling life and fill it with memories so that by the time I hit 52.61 years of age (average life expectancy, but I'm blue collar/well off so I'll probably live longer...) I can look back and say "yeah, I've done my fair share... I'm ready to go now"

There aren't enough hours in a day ������
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very cool. Are there any interesting varieties of woods down there that would make interesting electric bodies? I'm always a fan of seeing local wood projects from builders. We have Madrone and Redwood around here, and those make for some really stunning guitars. If you like red :D
 
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jon the art guy said:
very cool. Are there any interesting varieties of woods down there that would make interesting electric bodies? I'm always a fan of seeing local wood projects from builders. We have Madrone and Redwood around here, and those make for some really stunning guitars. If you like red :D
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Actually SA is quite a dry country without many natural forests. For the most part we have pine and saligna (Sydney blue gum) forests. A lot of the wood we get is from other parts of Africa, mainly Central Africa. We get bubinga, kiaat, meranti, wenge, padauk, African mahogany, sapele, panga panga, iroko, teak (Rhodesian is nice) and camphor wood are stuff from timber suppliers. Other woods we can get are African Blackwood, acacia, jacaranda, stink wood, deodar, cypress, pin oak, saligna, olienhoud (olive wood), and other trees that just grow around the country that are useable for timber. Most of these are sourced from tree fellers and you have to ask otherwise they just dump the wood.... And you also have to have it sawn if they don't do it which is quite a mission... I do want to try a lot of those woods though. They seem interesting. I am getting two one-piece deodar blanks (I think that's Japanese Cedar) and possibly some cypress wood from a friends farm on the east coast though. Cut and dried on his property.

For the most part, woods are imported here so we do have access to cedar, redwood, yellowwood, spruce and also lots of South American species but that also jacks up the price and you end up paying a lot for even just fret board sized pieces... The other problem is that a lot of our best/rarest woods are bought by the US and so woods like ebony, zebrano, African Blackwood (in large enough sizes), afzelia, ambonya, figured bubinga, pink and red ivory, thuya, pau ferro, pau rosa, Limba (korina) and others are extremely rare and expensive for us to buy. It's actually cheaper for us to buy imported Birdseye maple and Sitka spruce to build guitars from.

But yeah the "local" woods we have (most are invasive species anyway, like jacaranda) actually would make decent guitars. Common woods to work with locally are bubinga, meranti, teak, cypress, deodar, kiaat and the like because they're inexpensive and much better looking than pine... If you'd like I'll post pics of my builds with the local materials when I get around to them? They aren't as highly figured as some of the fancy South American and export quality woods but they're nice.
 
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Chocklit_Thunda said:
Actually SA is quite a dry country without many natural forests. For the most part we have pine and saligna (Sydney blue gum) forests. A lot of the wood we get is from other parts of Africa, mainly Central Africa. We get bubinga, kiaat, meranti, wenge, padauk, African mahogany, sapele, panga panga, iroko, teak (Rhodesian is nice) and camphor wood are stuff from timber suppliers. Other woods we can get are African Blackwood, acacia, jacaranda, stink wood, deodar, cypress, pin oak, saligna, olienhoud (olive wood), and other trees that just grow around the country that are useable for timber. Most of these are sourced from tree fellers and you have to ask otherwise they just dump the wood.... And you also have to have it sawn if they don't do it which is quite a mission... I do want to try a lot of those woods though. They seem interesting. I am getting two one-piece deodar blanks (I think that's Japanese Cedar) and possibly some cypress wood from a friends farm on the east coast though. Cut and dried on his property.

For the most part, woods are imported here so we do have access to cedar, redwood, yellowwood, spruce and also lots of South American species but that also jacks up the price and you end up paying a lot for even just fret board sized pieces... The other problem is that a lot of our best/rarest woods are bought by the US and so woods like ebony, zebrano, African Blackwood (in large enough sizes), afzelia, ambonya, figured bubinga, pink and red ivory, thuya, pau ferro, pau rosa, Limba (korina) and others are extremely rare and expensive for us to buy. It's actually cheaper for us to buy imported Birdseye maple and Sitka spruce to build guitars from.

But yeah the "local" woods we have (most are invasive species anyway, like jacaranda) actually would make decent guitars. Common woods to work with locally are bubinga, meranti, teak, cypress, deodar, kiaat and the like because they're inexpensive and much better looking than pine... If you'd like I'll post pics of my builds with the local materials when I get around to them? They aren't as highly figured as some of the fancy South American and export quality woods but they're nice.
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I personally would love to see them!
You know, I would actually like to see these woods lightly figured, as most of the examples you'll find over here are all highly figured for maximum beauty/profit. I really enjoy seeing what the shift in materials can do to a pretty standard shape and design.

This is Redwood, and the figure on it is just...perfect for me. It's like satin sheets that you lay with a beautiful woman on.
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jon the art guy said:
I personally would love to see them!
You know, I would actually like to see these woods lightly figured, as most of the examples you'll find over here are all highly figured for maximum beauty/profit. I really enjoy seeing what the shift in materials can do to a pretty standard shape and design.

This is Redwood, and the figure on it is just...perfect for me. It's like satin sheets that you lay with a beautiful woman on.
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Cool :) when I get hold of the blanks from my friend and I cut out the bodies I'll post the pics here.
It's funny how on my side I want to see more figuring and less of the plain materials. But that redwood top is stunning! We don't get stuff like that here in a hurry! Mostly the patterns come from the growth rings themselves as opposed to natural figuring in the grain. That silky figuring is amazing though! I wouldn't even know how to go about achieving that.

It's quite a dilemma that all the world renowned guitars are made of swamp ash, alder, South American mahogany, spruce, rosewood and ebony and down here I don't have access to those species in a hurry so I have to make do with the local equivalents.

Edit: you know, I've actually considered buying an old piano that I'd destroy just to get hold of some old growth European woods
 
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Ascension said:
Right now I'm working on a rare 1995 Washburn MG 112 project. I bought the body and neck as unfinished NOS pieces. the body with the exception of the wiring channels was ready for assembly but unfinished. The neck was completed but the nut never slotted and is unusual in that it is bound and had full size jumbo frets rather that the normal 6105's.
The normal production guitars from an add in 1995.

What I now own in other Washy MG's.
Pre production Prototype for the MG 122

95 MG 120

95 MG 102

The new one under construction

[URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/rutledri/media/NOS%20Washburn%20MG%20neck%20and%20body/DSCF0283.jpg.html]
It's getting a Chrome Gotoh Floyd.

I have the correct Washburn labeled Gotoh locking tuners and will use no lock nut ( my other MG's with this system and Wilkersons are ROCK stable in tuning!!), Zebra SD PG and Custom 8 pickups that will be direct mounted and a 5 way.
The color of the body is still undecided but will be a solid color likely a really vibrant ruby red or Purple in a HOC candy over gold metallic, Metallic or in a pearl with all chrome hardware.
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Love that purple one pictured!!!

For once, I dont have that many projects ahead of me.

I want to get a big block for my Washburn MG130 trems. And I want to put actual single coils in one, in place of the cool rails currently in it.

And, if I dont sell my blue LP, Im going to take out the circuit board and put in some regular pots and change the pups to a WLH set.

Thats it for now.
 
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Okay, so I've got one or two:

Telecaster body
- Needs a neck
- Needs routing for a neck humbucker
- Needs routing/filing for body contours
- Needs a bridge
- Has everything else (pickups, tuners, etc.)

Telecaster #2, as it were
- Needs the JS moore neck pickup to arrive (6.9k series, 5-6k split [tapped slug coil], just barely >3k parallel)

Kramer Focus 1000:
- Needs the bridge pickup fixed (right now only the slug coil passes current)

1989 MIJ squier:
- Needs SSL-1/SSL-1/Twang banger
- Needs crowning/leveling
- Needs keyhole brass saddles for the plain strings

AMPS

Baby Will:
- Needs space to crank up

Pedals:
- Needs nothing
 
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I've got an original Gibson dirty fingers humbucker that I have had for about 25 years that I considered selling on the trading post but I have decided to make an SG to put it in instead (anyone else build a guitar just to use a pickup? ),already made the neck blank from Bubinga 3x strips with Sapele veneer filler strips.Gonna get some Paduak in the next couple of days and make the body slightly thicker than a real SG ,plan is for gold hardware including NOS Ibanez harmonica bridge,3+3 grover tuners on a devilish headstock,ebony fretboard ,side dots only,side mounted barrel jack instead of on top ,still deciding whether to go for gold fretwire ?
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I've got a Precision Guitar Kits customized LP Junior body and neck I'll be loading a Duncan Vintage P90 Dogear into. Also set for it is a Hipshot Baby Grand.
 
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What the hell, I'll play too.

Honeyburst LP:
Replace A5 magnet in the bridge pickup
Pick up a 4 conductor Jazz for the neck

Stripped MIJ strat:
sand smooth
paint graffiti yellow
spray the stripped parts of the neck with tinted clear to match existing finish

Blue parts strat:
Shoot another coat of sonic blue nitro
Wet sand
Shoot clear nitro
Find pickups

LTD strat:
Replace pickups
Heavier trem block
Rout for bridge HB?
 
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I want to record my two rock amps through the Palmer speaker simulator, the red box and a cabinet with a SM57.

I have a Strat set up so that I can change the neck pickup without screws and I want to go through a couple Strat pickups again.

Then there is the trem test. I compared callaham to MIJ zinc block but now I also have a GFS steel block for the MIJ and a Fender CS block (probably the same as AVRI). These tests are moderately painful. They can be simplified by just using up new string sets instead of changing them.

A couple humbuckers piled up for testing while my Burny was carrying fixed pickups. It's time to go back to testing mode, I got bored of the imperials anyway.

Whether I find time for this depends on outside factors such as the ice and the eagles and whether I snap and run back to Germany.
 
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Quite the bunch of busy bees eh? I suppose that my next project is to get good at playing all of the stuff I've assembled. "Just one song Dave!"
 
Re: Projects and plans...

I just looked back at my old list and realised that it's grown and nothing has been completed

The thinline is almost done, the pine tele needs a new body,I just got the parts for the Jazzmaster last week and the rest of it is just sitting...

Add to that another 6 project guitars/repairs I picked up.... And I'm picking up another one this week....

Guys I need help :'(
 
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