Vanity Guitars

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I agree
There is a bright side
I do have a custom logo
Custom color and hardware
Custom control layout

All.in all it is beautiful and unless the truss rod falls out or the neck pops off
I think its.a win

Pickup rings
Roller bridge
Nut
Second hand pickups I have in a drawer

I am still well under a used
Epi ES LP

Without the custom features

If I order another
And my daughter has requested a Turquoise/ teal one with her name on the headstock

When I order another, i will specify more details

And know what to expect
 
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Ok TS rings showed up.
Got her wired up with JB/Jazz with black no hole covers





Had trouble stringing it. The high E tuner was tough to turn, so I unscrewed the locking pin. Went to the Auto Parts store got some brake caliper grease, and lived the worm gear. Since it was the first one I had tried to tune, I went ahead and greased all 6.
Didn't help after a bit I have up and put the Planet Waves I have had laying around.



When I went to take them off , there was some white filler. He had drilled the holes to the right size for the Planet Waves. But that was too big for the inexpensive one they used.
Looks like bathroom caulk.



Is it me or did he give me the offset PRS style peg holes.



Plays good
Intonation is perfect
But is ridiculous good, hideous looking. But doesn't bind in either direction

May be nylon or bone.
I guess I'll wait to swap it
 
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I know it seems like every time you dig into something with it you find something else sub-par, but I still think you have a fine instrument there.

The bad stuff is all easily fixable, as you’ve shown, but the important stuff is all there.

The tuners are pretty much the last thing that could’ve gone wrong and are easily replaced. So, on top of the good stuff you mentioned earlier it plays good and it has perfect intonation.

Still sounds like a win to me. Perhaps a hard-earned one, but a win nonetheless!

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Still less than a used Epiphone Florentine

I still crave the ES Les Paul. I don't think I will roll the dice again on that

My daughter wants a teal one with her name on it.

I think that may be last fixer upper I will get

It is nice to get something personalised

A Vanity guitar


Dialing it in the Duncans sounded horrible
Tweaked and tweaked on that JB. It does like a certain spot

Then realized the daughters friend had tweaked the mids out of the amp
And the neck settled a bit .

Plays great
 
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I think pretty much any Chinese guitar is likely to need tuners, pickups & pots, and perhaps assorted hardware. Par for the course. In the end, you've got yourself a cool one-of-a-kind custom axe for short money. And as you say, if you order one for your daughter you'll know what to expect.

I will say I'm surprised that it arrived with the pickups smashed in like that. But since you were planning to install the TripleShots and Duncans anyway, in this case it didn't really matter.

Plays well, that's the most important thing. And it sure is a looker.
 
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Sorry to hear about what you have there, it seems your ok with it and that's fine, but for me I would be devastated getting a guitar like that. I am happy you posted this, its just a reminder to myself to stay away from companies like that. I personally would get a guitar made from a reputable company.
 
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The Allparts roller bridge showed up with the straplocks.

The new bridge is a bit wider, stud spacing is the same.
The stud anchors measured at 12.2mm, yea.

So I slacked the strings lowered the stock bridge. Raised the stop bar.
Lifted the bridge off the studs under the strings
Pried the old anchors out, it really wasn't hard.

Drove the new studs in, with the stud and anchor still mated tight together, pushed them into the hole.
Then tapped them in with a 7mm deep well socket. The stock stud post was smaller as well. 6mm socket fit over top of it.

Then slid the roller under the strings, and set it up again.
The bridge came intonated just right , up to pitch it works great.

Now I'll just have to get a stoptail with the right anchors.

Oh yea and i turned the bridge around so the screwheads face the stop bar. The roller bridge has Phillips screws , yea

 
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I have roller bridges on three guitars and I really dig them. My semi-hollow used to break strings pretty often... always at the bridge, but the roller bridge solved that problem like a boss! My Tele build has a Bigsby-ish trem coupled with a roller bridge and they work together as smooth as butter. Good choice!
 
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BriGuy1968 said:
I have roller bridges on three guitars and I really dig them. My semi-hollow used to break strings pretty often... always at the bridge, but the roller bridge solved that problem like a boss! My Tele build has a Bigsby-ish trem coupled with a roller bridge and they work together as smooth as butter. Good choice!
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I got one for my Florentine as well. Kinda waiting on the TP6 tailpiece I ordered to show up.
Tracking says it's in Jamaica
 
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Ok so the tailpiece anchors are lifting

Took it over to my buddies house for extended playing
And it kept dropping out of tune . Almost evenly over all the strings
Looked at the anchors and you could see more of the white paper as it pulled up

So next on the list is tailpiece, should have done this with the bridge

They aren't expensive
 
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Necro bump

I thought I posted to this since December

Well I ordered a logo case to go with it
Here is a mockup I made for the builder



It should be here in a few weeks

Oh and a current image of the guitar


 
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I hadn't seen your build thread, so the necro-bump worked for me. Nice axe! Did you get the stop tail issies worked out?
 
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oh yea
the roller bridge came with the right bushings
as did the TP6 tailpiece

all works great
plays perfectly
 
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Let us know how that case works out. I might need a case at some point, and a custom one would be fun.
 
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One can always get a plain case and stencil a logo on it

I have seen old tour cases stenciled that way

Looks cheesy
But
Ya know
 
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Well it's in Montgomery this morning
May be at the house this weekend
They shipped it quick

I'm a bit anxious
 
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