Tell me about your dirt cheap guitar projects.

[MetalManiac]

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Basswood? POS crap worthless junk blah blah blah ****ing blah blah. junk poo crapturd ****ty wok dat^^

Don't try to fluff me Sonny..I wasn't born yesterday.

Yeah, I came to that conclusion. I polished the living sh*t outta that turd, but at the end of the day, guess what? It was still a turd.I dumped it. Honeslty though, I couldnt get it playing right, and thats more cause I didnt want to spend more money on it for a different neck. A Invader is THE only bridge pickup for those cheap runts, and it sounds pretty good.

I don't mean to disparage all such projects . I DO have a Squire Alder project that polished up real well. I modified the living daylights out of it, and I I love that guitar; plays nice, sounds cool (decent cleans from the Invader, but very good overdriven sound ). It has as an Invader bridge to add body and girth to the crappy tonewood.. I'll try and post it. The Key is a good neck, which a stock cheap guitar neck is total junk stock...but who wants to spend the money to put a Very Good neck on a Cheap guitar?

I happened to find a Squire neck with a Pro upgrade Fret job for next to nothing . It made that cheap guitar into a fantastic littel axe.

 

[kramersteen]

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Don't try to fluff me Sonny..I wasn't born yesterday.

Yeah, I came to that conclusion. I polished the living sh*t outta that turd, but at the end of the day, guess what? It was still a turd.I dumped it. Honeslty though, I couldnt get it playing right, and thats more cause I didnt want to spend more money on it for a different neck. A Invader is THE only bridge pickup for those cheap runts, and it sounds pretty good.
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Oh you're fluffed. ^^That explains it really well ''eye roll x10''^^

 

[uOpt]

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(badly) nitro finished mahogany Strat body, needed a good re-route of the trem section $60
Ibanez Roadstar II neck with smooth tuners II $80
MIJ trem $50
2x SSL1 $65

Really, really nice sounding Strat.

 

[King IzzO)))]

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Oh Jerry...

 

[Jocelyn]

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https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?245451-V-Refinish-Remod

Still has some, work left. Mainly I wanna change this to a single pickup guitar. The routing pushes the bridge pickup a little more towards the neck, and so not too much tonal variations when switching pickups. I wanna change the bridge too, to a TOM. I hardly play this guitar. But it was fun.

I wanna do another project on a cheap strat. But that will have to wait.

 

[stringbender11]

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Yeah that Strat that I mentioned a few posts back went from being worth nothing, to.. still nothing, lol. But I just like guitars that play really well, so the actual dollar value means little to me.

I try not get too caught up in the whole 'gear' hobby. I say that owning 3 electrics, 2 acoustics, and 4 amps though, lol.

 

[Dr. Vegetable]

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I try not get too caught up in the whole 'gear' hobby. I say that owning 3 electrics, 2 acoustics, and 4 amps though, lol.

Pfft! Single digits?

 

[stringbender11]

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lolz.

 

[Chocklit_Thunda]

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Got a Squier SE strat (above the bullet and affinity AFAIK) solid Agathis body, full thickness, maple neck with slab rosewood board and a skunk stripe neck.
Only problem I have with it is that the paint is like half a meter thick.... Needs to be refinished and probably stick in a new set of pickups.... The stock ceramic ones aren't even bad though.
Cost of the guitar when I got it $60. Considering Bullets got for $150 around my parts, I rate I scored.

 

[Gardener]

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I've taken a DeArmond M-55, stripped the body, plan to route it for a P-Rail, install a custom varitone switch, the options for phase/series, etc.. I plan to rout the body to facilitate playing it with a violin bow and I have defretted the neck and filled it.

Goal: Fretless guitar with multiple tone and pickup options.

 

[stringbender11]

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I've taken a DeArmond M-55, stripped the body, plan to route it for a P-Rail, install a custom varitone switch, the options for phase/series, etc.. I plan to rout the body to facilitate playing it with a violin bow and I have defretted the neck and filled it.

Goal: Fretless guitar with multiple tone and pickup options.

I listened to your original tunes on Sound Cloud, Gardener. Cool stuff, I liked 'Amber Eyes' and 'Anymore' in particular. As well as 'Leaving Tomorrow'.

 

[Kam]

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My current project is getting rid of a heap of guitars. Hopefully that will prove pretty cheap (for me, at least.)

 

[ChAoZ]

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My dirt cheap projects usually end up costing me more than they're worth :lol:

I know what you mean ,like my $400 squire I modded into a Dave Murray strat replica and owed me over $1100

 

[Toner]

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I got a 1990 Carvin which I was advised one of the custom shop guys made on the side, looked to be a ST body except for the larger upper horn. I just need to find someone with a legit ST that will carefully trace the body and mail it to me so I can complete it. I already ordered finishing supplies for this project. I played on it before I took it apart and man it played awesome! Those USA necks they make.....

 

[kramersteen]

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Oh yeah! ''in duff man voice'' I like that state it makes my mind go silly with finish ideas.

I got my dc127c for $300,that was a good day.

 

[rumblebox]

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I'm talking about those "I saw this guy on CL selling a wrecked guitar for next to nothing/someone handed me this beat up guitar and now it's in tip top playable shape" projects. I'm considering one just for fun.

Find a late 90's -early 2000's korean LTD M-100, and put a brass block in it with better pups. The LTD necks back then were spectacular quality.

I bought mine for $200 like new in 2000. It's on its 3rd set of frets, millionth pickup combo, and 7th paint job.

 

[Jocelyn]

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Find a late 90's -early 2000's korean LTD M-100, and put a brass block in it with better pups. The LTD necks back then were spectacular quality.

I bought mine for $200 like new in 2000. It's on its 3rd set of frets, millionth pickup combo, and 7th paint job.

Whenever I see an M50 or M100 used for sale I feel like picking one, for some mod project.

 

[Mr. B]

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I once bought a Peavey Tracer from a guy who had taken it apart and couldn't remember how to put it back together for 20 dollars. It was in perfect condition once I put it back together. Gave it away to a student at school and he thought it was the greatest thing ever. Also found a Epiphone LP Jr at the dump when I was throwing away cardboard one day, and it only needed new strings. I still have that one at school as a loaner for students.

 

[Kosh Naranek]

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I found an O'Hagan body/neck at a local guitar shop back around 1990. They were blowing it out at $50. It wasn't the Shark model it was a more conventional double cutaway offset shape, with neck through construction. It was finished in natural. No hardware or electronics. I could put whatever I wanted in it.
I got a Schaller bridge installed on it, a brass nut, made a pickguard out of a blank sheet I got from Warmoth, got screws, knobs, etc from Warmoth, got a set of gold plated Grover tuners locally, and I had some single coil sized humbuckers at home that I decided to put in it.

After getting it put together, wired up and strings put on, I never found the neck comfortable, the route for the bridge pickup was real close up to the bridge which made it sound too tinny and ice-picky. I think sometime in the 90's I traded it to a bandmate or sold it.
I was also surprised to find that after buying all the hardware, pickups, and other parts, my $50 project turned into a $400-$500 project - about what I used to pay for nice, US-made used guitars that I didn't have to assemble in those days.

 

[trevorus]

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Oh, even cheaper in the long run than my strat, my Epiphone Dot Studio, $100 on Craigslist, plus $100 in pickups, and some wiring, and it's quickly become my number one.

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