Souping up a guitar...

[JSS]

Besides putting new tuning heads and pickups into your guitar, what else would you do to really make it nicer?

 

[BluesNRock87]

Re: Souping up a guitar...

going all out - paintjob, replace frets if they are too small, get one of those fancy truss rod covers, bridge, tailpiece, new knobs (q-parts w/ inlay), maybe do a cool wiring job, new nut, saddles, replace the pickgaurd w. something cool, straplocks or cool thingys where u put on ur strap...

 

[JSS]

Re: Souping up a guitar...

yeah, I'm gonna replace the pickguard. It's an early 60's looking SG in Dark Cherry with the black pickguard on one side of the strings... I'm gonna put a pearloid white pickguard in there just to look flashy.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Souping up a guitar...

I would never want to turn ANY of my guitars into soup!

Oh, wait, you mean SUPING up your guitar! lol

(Just teasing ya a bit )

 

[italic zero]

Re: Souping up a guitar...

Bridge, nut, tailpiece replacements are popular.

 

[Norman_T]

Re: Souping up a guitar...

On strats - you could try either a neck or body, even both and then change the pups, hardware after that. Keep the strings though - something has to be original :saeek:

 

[italic zero]

Re: Souping up a guitar...

Refl. I can just imagine those vintage nuts playing '59 LPs with 45 year old strings, and 30 year old tubes in their Marshalls.

 

[McLaughysSN]

Re: Souping up a guitar...

electronics (including pots, caps, selectors, what evers in there)
pickups
tuners
possible bridge


most suping i do involve electronics.. whether it be just changing, or even routing for additional pots

 

[JSS]

Re: Souping up a guitar...

would you recommend getting an Earvana compensating nut?

Also, what is to gain by changing a bridge?

Pickups are obvious, look where I'm posting...

Tuners, I'm gonna get Sperzels. Just because they rule.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Souping up a guitar...

would you recommend getting an Earvana compensating nut?

Also, what is to gain by changing a bridge?

Pickups are obvious, look where I'm posting...

Tuners, I'm gonna get Sperzels. Just because they rule.

Sperzels are great.
A better bridge will hold tuning better, operate more smoothly and won't catch the strings on any burrs and break 'em.
Never used the Earvana, but it looks intrigunig. Guys like Vai love compensated nuts, like the Buzz Feiten tuning method, but I have no 1st hand experience with it. I usually just use a locking nut.

 

[Xeromus]

Re: Souping up a guitar...

put a big' ol spoiler on it, and a lousy stupid sounding muffler. Dice knobs...