Pictures (Guitars)

[markeebee]

^ BTW, the perspective in that picture is quite bonkers.  She isn't the world's biggest kitten.

Oh and, seriously, I'm thinking about fitting a pair of dog ears. 

[MrTonesNZ]

My attempt to Scott Lucas Signature Stratocaster® Custom Shop (relic)  



What kind of effect does that sideways bass pickup have? Thats quirky as!

[MrTonesNZ]

Strat looks like it's been in a bar fight, i approve!

Thanks. It's a 1966 Mustang neck, grafted to a Mighty Mite mahogany Strat body. Traded a Jap Strat copy for the body, neck, and mostly missing hardware, in college back in 1982. I had to cut back the neck pocket to accomodate the 24" scale, and spent 3 days with an eye patch when a mahogany splinter flew out of the router and found my undressed eye. I guess at that point, I knew we were meant to be together. After all, we always seem to hurt the ones we love the most  . Since then, it's gone through several mods (fret wire, trem, electronics, face plates, everything but the wood really), it's been my trusty test bed of sorts. Whatever gear that you see on the other guitars in the picture, has all gone through, been tested, and approved, by Mr. Bastard-caster first.

Beautiful! I've been thinking of doing somthing similar. Are the mighty mite parts very good?

[digi2t]

I can't speak for the wood nowadays. The mahogany body dates back to the early 80's, and seeing as how it's listed as an endangered species, who knows what you're getting today. Never had a problem with hardware, and I especially like their Motherbucker pups, that's what my swirl Ibby sports. With my setup, they bring a lot of girth. Super pup for the price. Overall, I don't think you can go wrong.

[Seven64]

new guitar, ESP EC-1000 tuned to standard C

[G. Hoffman]

I can't speak for the wood nowadays. The mahogany body dates back to the early 80's, and seeing as how it's listed as an endangered species, who knows what you're getting today. Never had a problem with hardware, and I especially like their Motherbucker pups, that's what my swirl Ibby sports. With my setup, they bring a lot of girth. Super pup for the price. Overall, I don't think you can go wrong.

Well, real Honduran mahogany (i.e., Mahogany grown in the nation of Honduras) hasn't been available for decades.  That being said, South American mahogany of the same species, but different geography, is still available.  On the other hand, the quality in the last five years has become pretty sad, and the price has become unreasonable.  Personally, I've decided that when I'm out of the South American mahogany I currently have, I'm going to start using Sapele, which is an African wood which looks similar, works very similar, and sounds indistinguishable from South American mahogany. 


Gabriel

[arawn]

all of my babies









The lp clone is the only stock guitar and i built the body for the last one some nice american black walnut, pictures really don't do it justice.

[slacker]

Work in progress, Squire Strat neck, cheapo Kay plywood body, humbucker sized P90s. Sounds surprising good, loud and jangly.

[Earthscum]

Man, I keep seeing these guitars. I've been sitting on a warlock shaped Koa (2" thick) body forever. I just haven't found a decent priced 5-string neck, yet. All the necks I've found so far cost more than the bass I've been pounding on for the last 11 years. The last couple years I've been considering just getting the pre-slotted fingerboard blank and truss rod and making it myself... but then I have to source the lumber. I really should get it going. These pics are pretty damn inspiring!

[Crowella]

This arrived last night 

[theundeadelvis]

Man, I keep seeing these guitars. I've been sitting on a warlock shaped Koa (2" thick) body forever. I just haven't found a decent priced 5-string neck, yet. All the necks I've found so far cost more than the bass I've been pounding on for the last 11 years. The last couple years I've been considering just getting the pre-slotted fingerboard blank and truss rod and making it myself... but then I have to source the lumber. I really should get it going. These pics are pretty damn inspiring!

Have you checked out the necks at Guitar Fetish? I can't speak about their quality, but man they are inexpensive.

[SISKO]

This arrived last night 

No way!
Thats awesome dude!!!

I *really* love that guitar. Any resemble with Muse maybe?

[Crowella]

Matt Bellamy from Muse played one of these back in the days. Ever since I saw it I knew I wanted to find one.  

My notes so far from the few hours I've played it:

It's extremely lightweight probably because the body is made of poplar. The neck feels okay to play (read: okay, not great). I'd compare it to my 604W Pacifica. The zero fret though is pretty awesome.

It's got a very thin single coil sound without ear bleeding treble highs. It needs the tone pot fixed though, which may help remove some of the highs and maybe bring some balance back. This may make it a challenge with some distortion pedals  

Build quality was pretty average so the previous owner had the neck join fixed. It feels sturdy now but signs of it's build still show, such as the 12th fret side dots are out of align.

One thing I will say, it feels like a very small guitar and I love it none the less. I'd say it plays similar to a mid-high end Squire.

[rousejeremy]

Monterey Strat project.

[TimWaldvogel]

Hi All,

Here are my instruments - LH, sorry...

Fender BlueOut Deluxe Telecaster. A Mex Std Tele DIY loaded with a BlackOut Deluxe electronics, with a 5 way / 4 circuits selector and a DPDT switch to add the Telecaster B+N PU configuration in position 3 :






How do you like your hagstrom? My grandmother before she passed had the pleasure of traveling to Sweden and researching out distant lineage. While she was there she boarded with and stayed with Mr.Hagstrom himself and the family. Verh nice fellow. Sent me a catalog and with a nice note for me to get a discout in a guitar, jut to have my grandmother write him :-)



To let go my 30-years-beloved ES-335-TD on holidays sometimes :



And a DIY Lefty-ized Gretsch G100 :



A+!

[deadastronaut]

^lovely lefties...

[Skruffyhound]

That's some nice kit you got there. My mate Arthur is a Hagstrom freek, even has a website.
http://www.hagstromrules.com/
I'd love to get one too, I like the accordian buttons  , but they are getting pretty pricey these days.

[Jamforthelamb]

I have loads of guitars I could post up here, but I will post blurry pictures of one of my most recently modded ones...for now 

Yamaha with a cool body shape, but typical strat type layout. I really like the higher end Yamaha SGV800 with this same body setup, but didn't want to splurge on the cost of one, so found this guy on Craigslist for fairly cheap. I didn't have any guitars (yet) with lipstick pickups, so I figured what the heck!

Before


After


Added GFS Protube single lipsticks in the neck, and middle postion, and a humbucker in the bridge with a push pull coil shunt switch for the volume control. Also added chrome knobs, upgraded tuners, and strap locks. Hoping to add a graphite nut, and work on making the trem work better as my intention is to use this guitar with my surf rig.

-Kevin

[MRX2099]

My 70's re-issue strat that I had the guys at randyciak.com customize to the Yngwie "Play Loud/Duck" strat the full works, scalloped neck, brass nut, relic worn look, new YJM pickups everything
front showing the wear and th e"Play Loud sticker"


rear with the worn ferrari sticker - love the 3 bolt "old school" necks


post ready to play


read to go


see the video of Dean playing it once he finished her up
http://www.deancascione.com/video/dean_cascione_in_the_style_of_Neoclassical_Shred.wmv

[Fishface]

Why?