Which Of Your Guitars Has Seen The Most?

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kramersteen said:
Started off life as a sss 22 fret strat style body and ended up 24 fret set neck.

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Final and latest rebirth.
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Awesome job!! How did you do the graphic?? Ive always thought about converting a bolt on to a set neck.. wondered if it would be worth the trouble tho.. well done
 
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BloodRose said:
Awesome job!! How did you do the graphic??
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How do you not know that? i have been on the forum for ages and posted many threads with graphic jobs. :drill:

Same way vai did the original floral jem. With fabric, glue. sealer and clear. It was my first ever attempt so it wasn't perfect by a long shot.
 
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kramersteen said:
How do you not know that? i have been on the forum for ages and posted many threads with graphic jobs. :drill:

Same way vai did the original floral jem. With fabric, glue. sealer and clear. It was my first ever attempt so it wasn't perfect by a long shot.
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Do you have a link to some of your old threads on this? Looks insane!
 
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dscythe said:
Do you have a link to some of your old threads on this? Looks insane!
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Yeah there is heaps of threads but unfortuantly alll of them will have dead photo links thanks to photobucket. If i get some energy later on i will upload some.
 
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I have quite a collection of guitars including my '98 American Standard Strat in my avatar which I love. I really cherish my Gibson SG Special w/ ebony fret board. It's my go-to guitar. Here's a clip of me doing some sloppy shredding.




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I have a mid 90's MIM Strat, with a mid-80's "JB Player" neck (my first nice guitar was a JBP and I just love the size/carve of the necks on those) It's had a dozen different electronic setups, a couple different tremolos (currently a big brass block GFS one) My oldest daughter kind of adopted it, and she's knocked it around since she was a toddler, so the thing looks every minute of it's age. It still feels like it just "dissapears" when I put it on, even though it's long since been replaced as my #1. It's one of about a billion black MIM's they sold, so since P-bucket is being stupid just imagine a black Strat with a black guard and a rosewood-fretboard neck.
 
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I've posted quite a lot about my Squier that served quite a while as my only guitar. So it ended up getting quite a lot of tweaking over the years. Since it is a brilliant guitar, I've restricted from doing anything permanent damage to it, and almost succeeded.

First of all, I upgraded the pot metal trem block for GFS and added aluminium tape on top of shielding paint. Then I switched OEM Toneriders for SD pickups and added push/pull pots. It never worked perfectly, as I broke the new volume pot when putting it together.

I played quite a while with only bridge pickup because of that (which wasn't connected to that volume). After I finally decided to fix it, it sort of went out of hands:

I tried quite a number of different wiring schemes (At some point I opened it up about once a week to try something new). I've tried about 10 different pots and caps in it. Removed the master volume, and replaced that hole with Jaguar style slider for dark/bright switch, added series and out of phase wirings to push pull/pots, moved tap to 5-way switch and added resistors to adjust the sweep of those pots (that adjust individual pickup volume). I glued bottle caps (cool looking ones ;)) on those to make switching easier. I also switched and rotated pickups number of times, resluting in SSL-7T in bridge, SSL-5 rwrp in middle and VZ Blues rwrp in neck.

I also added no-load master volume on jack plate: I took two strat jack plates, cut and welded them together to have room for the pot, while maintaining the recess for lead. I had to remove ~5 mm of wood to house that (only non-reversible thing I think I've done with it). Later I added cap and 250k resistor to it to balance tone. Last thing I've done to electronics was switching the 5-way switch to 4-way tele switch I like much better.

In hardware, I switched tuners for EZ Locks, removed string trees, changed that GFS block for one from am. deluxe strat and changed vintage bridge and saddles for much more solid pieces from Peavey Raptor series I. It still has original pickguard that has seen some knife, drill and saw for reasons said earlier.

EDIT: I try to post picture some day in the future...
 
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My Lotus Frankenstrat.
Started out as a simple sss strat copy I got for $80(spittin' image of how mine was);
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Then I bought a brand new Schaller, some green-purple spray paint, and a hh loaded guard off eBay;
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Finally got a neck with a locknut off an Ibby RG470(bought a pal 2 pints of brew and it was mine). 2 frets had to be removed and the sides of the heel micro routed. Added an 81/85 set and a custom guard with battery access.
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Refreshed paint job, ditched the actives for a JB and no name, used computer magic to get the correct Lotus logo, light up pickguard via Terrapin Guitars(I did the wiring for that), and that's how it is today. Just need to better secure the LED. The tape doesn't hold it down for long.
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kramersteen said:
How do you not know that? i have been on the forum for ages and posted many threads with graphic jobs. :drill:

Same way vai did the original floral jem. With fabric, glue. sealer and clear. It was my first ever attempt so it wasn't perfect by a long shot.
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I HAVE seen your threads on that bro.. Just wasnt sure if you did the same on this one... :notworthy
 
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The Guitar said:
My Lotus Frankenstrat.
Started out as a simple sss strat copy I got for $80(spittin' image of how mine was);
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Then I bought a brand new Schaller, some green-purple spray paint, and a hh loaded guard off eBay;
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Finally got a neck with a locknut off an Ibby RG470(bought a pal 2 pints of brew and it was mine). 2 frets had to be removed and the sides of the heel micro routed. Added an 81/85 set and a custom guard with battery access.
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Refreshed paint job, ditched the actives for a JB and no name, used computer magic to get the correct Lotus logo, light up pickguard via Terrapin Guitars(I did the wiring for that), and that's how it is today. Just need to better secure the LED. The tape doesn't hold it down for long.
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This is awesome!! Love the light up in the guard.. You use rattle can paint? Looks great and have always LOVEd that color
 
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My 1952 AVRI Fender Telecaster is a real player. I bought it back in 2006 during Fender's 60th anniversary. I've played it a lot since. It's nicely set-up and has a great feel to it. Telecaster guitars are a must have.

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Does that include the Blackguard wiring scheme?
 
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What I mean is does it have traditional Tele wiring or does it have:

1: Bridge no tone
2: Bridge with neck blend
3: Neck with RC network
 
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Chistopher said:
What I mean is does it have traditional Tele wiring or does it have:

1: Bridge no tone
2: Bridge with neck blend
3: Neck with RC network
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Oh, I know what you mean now. The guitar has 50's wiring which means on the 3-way selector switch the 1st position is bridge pick up only. The 2nd or middle position is neck pup only. The 3rd position is also neck pup only but with the tone all the way down to like -1 for a real bassy sound. The tone control is by-passed in this position but the volume works. I figured out a way to get both pick ups on at the same time. I just carefully slide the selector switch in between positions 1 & 2 which acts like a 4th position. The Tele also came with a kit to upgrade to more modern wiring but I like the guitar the way it is. I like to keep it original.



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Interesting, if you keep it between 3 and 2 does it make it so the neck is somewhat darker than usual but not "-1"?
 
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Chistopher said:
Interesting, if you keep it between 3 and 2 does it make it so the neck is somewhat darker than usual but not "-1"?
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I don't think I've tried that one yet. Thanks for the advice. I'll have to see or hear the sound difference on that. Currently my Tele is at my sister-in-law"s place along with many other of my guitars. I just moved to a new place a few months back and I don't have a lot of space to store my guitars. I have under 20 guitars at the moment but I'm trying to thin out the herd. I have 2 at home...my '98 Fender American Standard Strat (shown in my avatar) & my Epiphone Les Paul Standard. Both are great playing guitars.



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This guitar has been both my main and guinea pig for since i started playing. It's been gigged, experimented on with countless pickup configurations, different bridges, different nuts, scalloped neck, different guards, springs, knobs, pots, etc. It started out as a 2000 Fender Deluxe Stratocaster, not sure i can call it that anymore since there is nothing stock left on it a part from the switch and last tone pot. People used to call me crazy for modding such an expensive guitar.

It's been named Sunday:

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