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Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: FELINEGUITARS on March 30, 2012, 03:28:39 PM
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12 frets to recovery - Not just for PhillyQ
This is somewhere for all of us with those unfinished guitar (or amp/pedal build) projects.
Come and stand proud and say : I have guitar bits under the bed that deserve to be made into playing guitars
Maybe trade the unfinished bits with other project addicts via "Seconds Out" who might see the project through to completion.
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This is a good idea!
i only currently have three things that are unfinished but they are all actually in progress.
SLO clone with preamp & power amp mods (waiting for the chassis)
Paul Cochrane Timmy (just needs housing up)
Swirl guitar (still deciding on parts)
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I've got a Paramix board that's been due boxing up for about 2 years...
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I have a semi-working Noisy Cricket amp I'd like to make into a mostly-working Noisy Cricket amp.
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I've an old Squire bullet 1 that I've always been meaning to nick the neck from and put on a new body.
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4 Warmoth Tele bodies
3 Warmoth Strat bodies
1 Warmoth LP body
1 MJT relic Strat body
3 Warmoth Strat necks
2 Warmoth Tele necks
1 Warmoth LP neck
3 Fender Strat necks
3 Fender Tele necks
A few other really old necks and bodies from Fender, WD and Palm Bay which I'm not really even counting.
More bridges, tuners, pickups, scratchplates, screws, pots and switches than I could ever begin to count.
PRS SE EG with all the electronics and hardware stripped out.
Tokai SG with no pickups.
Ancient Hamer Special with a disintegrating finish.
A couple of 1980s superstrat projects with various missing parts.
Hmmmm...... this isn't making me feel any better. :oops:
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4 Warmoth Tele bodies
3 Warmoth Strat bodies
1 Warmoth LP body
1 MJT relic Strat body
3 Warmoth Strat necks
2 Warmoth Tele necks
1 Warmoth LP neck
3 Fender Strat necks
3 Fender Tele necks
A few other really old necks and bodies from Fender, WD and Palm Bay which I'm not really even counting.
More bridges, tuners, pickups, scratchplates, screws, pots and switches than I could ever begin to count.
PRS SE EG with all the electronics and hardware stripped out.
Tokai SG with no pickups.
Ancient Hamer Special with a disintegrating finish.
A couple of 1980s superstrat projects with various missing parts.
Hmmmm...... this isn't making me feel any better. :oops:
If you are wanting to part with any of the necks shoot me a PM with pictures prices etc and ill gladly take one off your hands as a temp fix until i decide on specs for what im wanting jonathan to make me.
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Hmmm Philly ... with all those necks and bodies under the bed presumably you haven't got room for one of these? :lol:
(http://odysseysvirtualmuseum.com/product_images/x/930/R-04-01055-CR-1__01819_zoom.jpg)
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Hmmm Philly ... with all those necks and bodies under the bed presumably you haven't got room for one of these? :lol:
You're right, but I am pretty good at stumbling to the bathroom and back in the dark without crashing into anything much.
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My list is very small compared to Philly:
- Tele body - still needs routing for the control panel and neck pickup and drilling for the strings and jack socket (and neck)
- Tele neck - well, it's a neck blank that needs cutting and shaping.
- Fingerboard blank - needs cutting and attaching to the above.
- Random body shape - drawn when I'd had a few beers. Cut out when I was sober. Needs sanding and routing.
- Cheap neck taken from a donor guitar for the random body.
- Tele bridge plate.
- Fender tuners that my Dad bought for me thiking they would fit the Baja (and they don't).
- BYOC Fuzz pedal (I think the Octave Fuzz but it hasn't seen light of day in a while).
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I've never built a damn thing in my life unless you count a balsa wood windmill that I made for woodwork homework when I was 10. My woodwork teacher was amazed given the general level of incompetence I displayed in the classroom. At last I feel I can unburden myself to you friendly people and admit that it was actually made by my mum. Good to finally get that off my chest.
I do have a packet of various pickup magnets that a nice guy from the SD forum sent me but I've been too shite scared to try to do anything with them.
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I've got a few at the moment because I still have builders in the house and so have no room to build projects!
Burgandy Mist Strat body
Birds Eye Maple Strat Neck
Indian Rosewood Strat Neck
Warmoth Reverse Headstock Strat Maple Neck
Wez V Ibanez Neck
Squier Duo Sonic for Pickup & Saddle upgrade (will be used as a Nashville high strung guitar)
1974 Les Paul 55 Special for a pickup upgrade to Nantuckets and a general set up
1971 Les Paul Custom for a set up & Bridge PU Change
Custom Chambered Les Paul for a pickup change (replacing Riff Raff/SM set with Emerald/Mule set).
Hardtail Strat to setup with custom BK AII Mother's Milk set
After 5 months there seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm hoping to knock off several of these projects next weekend.
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Have to finish the mahogany Strat, BECAUSE THE TEL-X-PLODER IS INBOUND!!! :D :D :D
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Well, I join in with the banter about Philly and his unfinished stuff. But I usually keep very quiet about the stuff lying around at my place :roll:
This is mainly because I don't really regard them as projects, they're just guitars that have been plundered or generally ended up in "not all there" state. So I tend to not think of them much.
I have two I can remember off the top of my head:
Epiphone SG with no pickups/electrics - it does have a set of upgraded Tone-Pros tuners, though! There's a post about this guitar on here somewhere when it was still working - it has a very interesting headstock, not the little Epi one, but nearer to a Gibson shape, and I was wondering if anyone knew owt about it. Various SG experts on here weren't able to say for sure what they thought it was.
Anyway, it was one of my old gigging guitars and one of the guitars I bought my first BKPs for - Riff Raffs. I then upgraded the electrics and the tuners. I then put the RRs in an Explorer and bought it MQs... 'twas always a bit bright for me though... so I upgraded the rest of it to a Gibson Faded SG Special :lol:.
I put the MQs in the Explorer and the Riff Raffs in the Faded, and this Epi ended up with two holes ready to take the Faded's Gibson pups. I never got round to it... Then I got fed up with the Faded's circuit board, so I ripped the electrics out of the Epi as well. It's sat in its gig-bag in this castrated state ever since...
The other is a Korean Squier Tele. Another old gigging guitar (the SG's predecessor, actually). This is the one that I routed for a neck humbucker (both body - an interesting plywood - and scratchplate... with a chisel!! :lol:). I found that the neck-hum tele configuration was NOT for me, it didn't work at all in gigs for me (hence the Epi SG). I ended up raising the action and putting 16s on it for a slide beastie. Didn't play it much like that, though...
After getting into BKPs, I started thinking about new tele pups for it, replacing the scratchplate, getting it going. But it is a particularly vile yellow (the wife HATES yellow) and, er, I suddenly bought 3 very nice teles in the space of a year!!
It has been the subject of a possible project over the years - Esquire it with a Piledriver was the original plan, the new Flat 50 would be the more "up-to-date" plan if I could be bothered at the moment... but I have far more pressing tasks ahead of me - somehow I don't ever see me doing it.
All the other electrics are fully-functional - some are in need of newer strings, though, and some are destined for pickup swaps maybe.
But when it comes to parts, though.... I have every single bridge, saddle, pot, tuner, pickup, piece of wire, etc, that I have ever removed from a guitar (from about 1980 onwards) - even the broken ones! :lol:
So, er, maybe I'm not as squeaky clean as I might imply!
EDIT: If anyone (preferrably near to me - South London) has an interest in the Epi or Squier, do give a shout, but I'm not actively looking to shift them, I've got plenty of space for "non-working sh1t that I don't want to see for months"!!
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Still havent finished my Wenge Rhoads, but I did do the routing template for the bridge a few Saturdays ago. Have all the parts too....
Started a two string 35 scale bass with some leftover black limba a month ago... Need to order the fretboard.
Working on a four channel amp right now. The switching board works, the 12v regulated heater supply works and is now elevated, the ENGL Pball/E530 tonestack board works, the Framus Cobra board works, the Deliverance board is still in the prototype phase, haven't even started on the power section or the fourth channel which may be either an SLO or a 5150 lead as the other boards have two modes and I'm limited to 7 one-at-a-time functions on the switching board I designed.
Have a box full of ISP decimator boards that have been in customs for 3 weeks now. Looking forward to procrastinating on that the minute they arrive from Canada.
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Epiphone SG with no pickups/electrics - it does have a set of upgraded Tone-Pros tuners, though! There's a post about this guitar on here somewhere when it was still working - it has a very interesting headstock, not the little Epi one, but nearer to a Gibson shape, and I was wondering if anyone knew owt about it. Various SG experts on here weren't able to say for sure what they thought it was.
That sounds like it might be a Japanese Epiphone, don't remember you mentioning it - got any pics?
If the headstock's a "proper" open-book Gibson shape, then it's definitely a domestic market Japanese model.
If it's a slightly tapered shape with a curved top edge (but no "lip" in the middle), it's also Japanese but an Elitist (or Elite) model.
Edit: Just found this old thread, must have missed it at the time:
https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=11508.0 (https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=11508.0)
I don't think it's Japanese after all, not with the 3-screw trussrod cover - and it just doesn't look"right" for any MIJ model I've ever seen. The MIJ Epis basically replaced Orville/Orville by Gibson and the area around the nut looks completely wrong for any of those.
I don't know as much about the Korean Epiphones but I'd have to assume that's what it is.
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A hopelessly ambitious 3-channel preamp with relay-switched gain stages and channel routing to switch in external preamps, tube rectifier and all-tube parametric EQ. Currently in the bottom drawer in my kitchen.
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Warmoth L5S body - Black Korina w/ birdseye maple, not sure on the neck, perhaps I will use a rosewood blank I've, perhaps a Cocobolo fretboard and headplate that I also got... Or get a Black Korina neck from Soulmate...
I'm not counting all the woods I've bought through the time, but I've:
white korina blank for LP or Tele
1 piece ash body for strat
1 chunk of maple that can be made 3 guitar necks
1 blank of figured Purpleheart that can be made a deep set neck
Some fretboards blanks: rosewood, ziricote, a very flamed maple
Some guitar tops: Spalted maple, burl maple, birdseye maple, a wormy-eaten 5A Spruce top for a Il Teredo Benedetto archtop alike...
God knows what more....
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Only thing I got is a cheap but decent strat copy that I need to put together and up for sale.
If you're interested in parting with some of your unfinished teles, Philly, then give me a shout :D
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4 Warmoth Tele bodies
3 Warmoth Strat bodies
1 Warmoth LP body
1 MJT relic Strat body
3 Warmoth Strat necks
2 Warmoth Tele necks
1 Warmoth LP neck
3 Fender Strat necks
3 Fender Tele necks
A few other really old necks and bodies from Fender, WD and Palm Bay which I'm not really even counting.
More bridges, tuners, pickups, scratchplates, screws, pots and switches than I could ever begin to count.
PRS SE EG with all the electronics and hardware stripped out.
Tokai SG with no pickups.
Ancient Hamer Special with a disintegrating finish.
A couple of 1980s superstrat projects with various missing parts.
Hmmmm...... this isn't making me feel any better. :oops:
:)
Love it.
I have a set of Nailbombs without a home currently. I'm sure they would LOVE your pickup-less Tokai...
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I have a set of Nailbombs without a home currently. I'm sure they would LOVE your pickup-less Tokai...
Nah, it's an SG. I don't think Nailbombs would suit.
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Epiphone SG with everything modded but with no wiring loom or knobs
Pots, switch, jack, wire and knobs for above :lol:
Ebay carved top RG type body
Ibanez RG neck
tremol-no
HSS ash strat body
Warmoth strat neck
WD HSS scratchplate
2 point trem
various pickups for above
Badly sawn out ash superstrat body
maple neck blank
slotted rosewood fingerboard
Un-planed ash body blank
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like that L5s
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Have a lP neck that put on cr@p old body, need to find a decent one.
Various valve P/A's kelly/selmer based I was going to get round to converting
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Awesome Thread lol.
I got a older ESP LTD F-200 basswood that I figured instead of buying a brand new guitar for $1500 - $3000 I'd just upgrade this one.
When its done It'll have :
-Wenge with maple stripes / Ebony fingerboard neck with stainless steel jumbo frets and abalone fret markers : Custom order from soulmateguitars.com!
-Grover standard tuners
-Earvana aluminum floyd nut
-BKP Holy diver for bridge and a (( I have no clue yet lol )) BKP neck pickup. Probably abraxas, emerald, or crawler!
-Gotoh Floyd rose
- Floyd upgrades Titanium saddles, Brass block, brass claw, EVH De-tuna, and basically everything else from that site that is Floyd based lol.
-Nickel something cavity shielding (( I can't remember exactly what it was but it's grey and it works ))
-1 Meg Alpha pots
-6 way Jimmy Page switch from Stewmac.com
- and some other stuff I probably haven't found yet lol. Gotta love the internet 8)
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I have an old Hofner 175 short scale bass. I have fixed it up years ago but it needs a better job.
I'm want to refret it, plane the board, body refinish, repro pickguard, aluminium bigsby bridge on a flat aluminium base. Though I can do all the work myself, it will cost more than the whole thing is worth.
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I have an old Hofner 175 short scale bass. I have fixed it up years ago but it needs a better job.
I'm want to refret it, plane the board, body refinish, repro pickguard, aluminium bigsby bridge on a flat aluminium base. Though I can do all the work myself, it will cost more than the whole thing is worth.
A Bigsby on a bass? Or is this a non-vibrato Bigsby bridge? I'm curious. :)
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I have an old Hofner 175 short scale bass. I have fixed it up years ago but it needs a better job.
I'm want to refret it, plane the board, body refinish, repro pickguard, aluminium bigsby bridge on a flat aluminium base. Though I can do all the work myself, it will cost more than the whole thing is worth.
A Bigsby on a bass? Or is this a non-vibrato Bigsby bridge? I'm curious. :)
It has a fixed tailpiece but it originally had a bridge like the Bigsby compensated bridge. It's a strat model bass. It needs a very low profile floating bridge unit.
I have looked at other bridge units but all of them have too much string spread.
Actually it's a 182.
Eventually it will look something like this.
(http://www.vintagehofner.co.uk/gallery/bass/bas30b.jpg)
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Cool! :D
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If it's a slightly tapered shape with a curved top edge (but no "lip" in the middle), it's also Japanese but an Elitist (or Elite) model.
see, this isn't helping, I just found myself going "I wonder if I could find an Elitist on Ebay and mod it..." :?
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Do Warhammer 40000 armies count?
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Do Warhammer 40000 armies count?
Ah...
If they do, I've got some half-painted 15mm Napoleonic armies to declare! :lol:
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If it's a slightly tapered shape with a curved top edge (but no "lip" in the middle), it's also Japanese but an Elitist (or Elite) model.
see, this isn't helping, I just found myself going "I wonder if I could find an Elitist on Ebay and mod it..." :?
Mod it to a Gibson headstock shape, or just mod it generally? Couldn't really do the former, the basic shape of (most) Elite/Elitist headstocks isn't the same as Gibson.
Yeah, they do appear on eBay, but if you're thinking about an LP or SG they don't go cheap - people know they're good, they're not "best kept secrets".
Most of the Elitists which crop up are the Casino models.
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Mod it generally, modding headstocks is lame.
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Mod it generally, modding headstocks is lame.
Well, I did wonder..... :wink:
Glad you said that, I agree.
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Maybe we should set up a project exchange - we all send our unfinished projects to another forum member and see what comes back.
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Maybe we should set up a project exchange - we all send our unfinished projects to another forum member and see what comes back.
There's only so much room under my bed... :|
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Unfortunately the worst offenders appear to be Philly and myself, and we both have very different tastes.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari_Damacy
problem solved!
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:lol:
How on earth did you find that?
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Maybe we should set up a project exchange - we all send our unfinished projects to another forum member and see what comes back.
There's only so much room under my bed... :|
I take a look into my crystal ball and see that we'd just keeping sending objects around until Feline, Wez, HTH, Juan or JPF gets them. Either that or Philly ends up on network television, maybe a soft news piece on hoarding or something.
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Either that or Philly ends up on network television, maybe a soft news piece on hoarding or something.
Nah, I'm going for the full hour-long documentary with me in a smelly old cardigan crawling through piles of guitar parts and old issues of Guitarist. Not expecting anything upmarket though - Five or BBC3 I expect.
Actually, sometimes I look around and think I really am heading that way.... :|
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Either that or Philly ends up on network television, maybe a soft news piece on hoarding or something.
Nah, I'm going for the full hour-long documentary with me in a smelly old cardigan crawling through piles of guitar parts and old issues of Guitarist. Not expecting anything upmarket though - Five or BBC3 I expect.
Actually, sometimes I look around and think I really am heading that way.... :|
Well the first step is to admit it. The second is make a suit of armour out of Strat bodies and a neck sword to protect your treasure from the invaders. That should last an hour just getting you out of the house. I'm seeing a mini-series here.
"On the next installment of PhillyQ, we've set up a very nice Marshall stack and a Les Paul across the street to try and lure him out. Will he take the bait or just yell out the window that the guitar is too damn heavy but P90s would look alright? You'll have to tune in to find out."
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Will he take the bait or just yell out the window that the guitar is too damn heavy but P90s would look alright? You'll have to tune in to find out.
:lol:
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Well the first step is to admit it. The second is make a suit of armour out of Strat bodies and a neck sword to protect your treasure from the invaders. That should last an hour just getting you out of the house. I'm seeing a mini-series here.
"On the next installment of PhillyQ, we've set up a very nice Marshall stack and a Les Paul across the street to try and lure him out. Will he take the bait or just yell out the window that the guitar is too damn heavy but P90s would look alright? You'll have to tune in to find out."
Good God, you know me better than I know myself! :o :lol:
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An slo100 clone that Tony is helping me with. It's probably months and months and months from being usable haha
(http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/8826/unleddal.png)
(http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/8258/unled2m.png)
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Theramin.
Started 4 years ago!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari_Damacy
problem solved!
That looks bonkers. Absolutely bonkers.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari_Damacy
problem solved!
That looks bonkers. Absolutely bonkers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr_c1S25OSQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=265s
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4 Warmoth Tele bodies
3 Warmoth Strat bodies
1 Warmoth LP body
1 MJT relic Strat body
3 Warmoth Strat necks
2 Warmoth Tele necks
1 Warmoth LP neck
3 Fender Strat necks
3 Fender Tele necks
A few other really old necks and bodies from Fender, WD and Palm Bay which I'm not really even counting.
More bridges, tuners, pickups, scratchplates, screws, pots and switches than I could ever begin to count.
PRS SE EG with all the electronics and hardware stripped out.
Tokai SG with no pickups.
Ancient Hamer Special with a disintegrating finish.
A couple of 1980s superstrat projects with various missing parts.
Hmmmm...... this isn't making me feel any better. :oops:
If you are wanting to part with any of the necks shoot me a PM with pictures prices etc and ill gladly take one off your hands as a temp fix until i decide on specs for what im wanting jonathan to make me.
Me too Philly! We've done business before ma boy :)