Which Of Your Guitars Has Seen The Most?

[80's_Metal]

Re: Which Of Your Guitars Has Seen The Most?

This epi goth explorer.
I cut my teeth learning how to wire in pups with this axe.
Must have had a dozen different pups in this thing, from livewires at 18volts to Duncan's to emgs, back to Duncan's, etc. Took the toggle switch and moved it to a normal place, it's a gem.
Filed the nut, dropC tuned now.

 

[Godin15]

Re: Which Of Your Guitars Has Seen The Most?

Was this one.



Now its this one.

 

[RorySquier]

Re: Which Of Your Guitars Has Seen The Most?

Was this one.View attachment 85449



Now its this one.View attachment 85450

Those are real nice looking guitars Godin15. It's hard to say which one I like best. That white one has a bit of a Jimi Hendrix vibe to it. The other looks great with the wood grain and satin finish. I've played a few of them over the years at pawn shops and at Long & McQuade. They are top notch instruments and are Canadian made as far as I know. I don't have one because I have too many guitars already. Maybe when I thin the herd a bit I might develop an interest in acquiring a Godin guitar in the future.



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[Jacew]

Re: Which Of Your Guitars Has Seen The Most?

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...

So here's the pic:

 

[Godin15]

Re: Which Of Your Guitars Has Seen The Most?

Those are real nice looking guitars Godin15. It's hard to say which one I like best. That white one has a bit of a Jimi Hendrix vibe to it. The other looks great with the wood grain and satin finish. I've played a few of them over the years at pawn shops and at Long & McQuade. They are top notch instruments and are Canadian made as far as I know. I don't have one because I have too many guitars already. Maybe when I thin the herd a bit I might develop an interest in acquiring a Godin guitar in the future.



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Thanks Rory and yes Canadian made.

 

[Brian Krashpad]

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I'm not a modder. Other than replacing a pickup I somehow managed to kill, about the onliest mods I've done is to add pickguards to a couple guitars that came without (a Gibson SGJ and a Hamer Special, for those of you scoring at home), and to put Bobbin Toppers on a couple guitars to change their appearance.

But I'm not averse to buying used guitars that already have mods done by prior owners. In that regard I give you Mary, a MIK Casino I was actually given as a pressie from a band I used to be in:

Silver pup covers changed for black.

Bigsby.

Grovers.

Neck pup replaced by Rio Grande P-90.

Fifth pot (Gretsch-style master volume turns both pickups up/down).

 

[RorySquier]

Re: Which Of Your Guitars Has Seen The Most?

My 1989 Yamaha RGX Custom has seen a lot of action throughout the years. I bought it after finishing high school. It cost $2K at the time not including the case. It has all the tone capabilities you can get with a master coil-split on the pull/push tone knob and a direct out switch for the bridge pick up which by-passes the other controls. It's a five piece maple-mahogany neck thru-body (selective ash body) with an ebony fret board. It also has 12F crystal inlays on the FB. This guitar plays & sounds fantastic. I've almost had it for 30 years now.

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[Godin15]

Re: Which Of Your Guitars Has Seen The Most?

My 1989 Yamaha RGX Custom has seen a lot of action throughout the years. I bought it after finishing high school. It cost $2K at the time not including the case. It has all the tone capabilities you can get with a master coil-split on the pull/push tone knob and a direct out switch for the bridge pick up which by-passes the other controls. It's a five piece maple-mahogany neck thru-body (selective ash body) with an ebony fret board. It also has 12F crystal inlays on the FB. This guitar plays & sounds fantastic. I've almost had it for 30 years now.

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Rory I bet you've rocked out many times on that baby, nice axe!

 

[RorySquier]

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Rory I bet you've rocked out many times on that baby, nice axe!

Thanks Godin...it has had many playing times throughout the years and I've never had any problems with it at all. It was a guitar ahead of it's time when I acquired it. I'm taking this guitar to the grave with me.



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