Re: The Official April 2K18 SDUGF Modding Contest
Ok, what the heck, just for laughs I'm gonna post my
NON-QUALIFYING would-be entry (failing rule no. 7 as all mods were performed by my tech).
My Swing EZ-10:
Originally
saw this lowest-end model from a little-known Korean company named Swing, I just realized,
10 years ago to the day and fell in love with it. The hardware was crap, the electronics mega-crap and the plastic parts super flimsy. Yet, this axe spoke to me in a way no other had before, including ones that cost 6-7 times what she did (which was about 300 euro).
Finally went to buy her about a month later... only to find out she had been sold. Thankfully there was one last guitar in stock which ended up being even better than the one I had played so
I snatched her right there and then.
From the very beginning I knew this would be an "Extreme Makeover" project guitar and I spent an inordinate amount of time researching these here forums and
asking for whatever
I couldn't readily find. Heck, I even
ran a poll to help me decide on the hardware color!
Then, after close to a year later and 1000 euros more
sank into her between two
major modding sessions by my tech, I finally got her to look like this:
By this point, there was literally nothing stock left to her but the wood. New Sperzel locking tuners, a non-locking Ebanol nut, new pickups and all electronics, new chrome pickup rings, a Gotoh 1996 Floyd copy, complete with a new fat brass block and a Tremol-No to turn her into dive-only.
However, the finishing touch wouldn't come until 4 years later, when the forum decided on the, unfairly ill-fated, Fuglybuckers that, after a failed first attempt in my Parker single cut, I knew these pickups and my
Izzy were a match made in guitar heaven:
Funnily, either pickup sets alone cost me what the original guitar cost, bringing the total to 1600 euro (although 1300€ is what I ended up sinking into her, seeing as the originally swapped pickups both found new homes later).
So there you have her, my Izzy, a true Cinderella story!
