Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: sgmypod on February 08, 2007, 04:02:03 PM
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weird .. mine was a headless hohner steinberg copy(the stratish shape on) which had been sanded down to natural and had a monkey grip..like the ibanez..and had a dimazio zebra? pickup
stupid....line6 500 variax(changed neck as was a cricket bat..to a maple fender one with locking tuners) neck when changed was best bit on it....too sterile sounding...and as for the 12string which sounded like a 12 string being put through a shredder..or the weird banjo on it.....(anyways traded that for a Guild bluesbird..not weird or stupid one)
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Mine would have to be the really chaep strat copy I had. I got drunk and hollowed it out with a router (not a tool I would advise you to use drunk). Then I got some thin plywood and cut a cap for the routing I'd just done, shapped some F holes and pick up cavities with a chisel (even more drunk at this point) and stuck it on the top of the guitar.
Then after I sobered up and the glue dried, I painted it with hammered blue hammerite.
Awesome :lol:
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nice...have a friend who cut an extra bit for the horn on his aria pro 2, now has metal plate holding body together at the neck
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I have never owned a wierd or stupid guitar but in line with the modifications you guys have referred to, I knew a guy with a 1960's Precision bass which he sawed off the upper horn because he was told that it would sound better :? he found, to his surprise, that it didn't but by then had thrown the horn away and had to have a new one made and fitted-the luthier did a great job thankfully.
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*LMAO* was he drunk..or just daft *L*
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No he was quite sober-at least at the time he told me-I had noticed the "repair" on his guitar and asked about it and the whole sordid tale came out. Hard to believe I know-devalued a vintage guitar.
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strange what people will do
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Not really weird or stupid .... just annoying. It was a '67 ish semi-hollow tele and the feedback was just out of control at anything but the lowest volumes.
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Most stupid guitar: Gibson Les Paul Studio.
Squeeling sounds on all amps available, except old mesa's, even after wax potting the pickups and changing the pickups. :D
Very strange situation :?
Weird guitar (but I really really like it): Parker Fly Deluxe....taking into account that the guitar is from 1994, it is pretty futuristic! Lots of current guitar companys are experimenting with piezo and magnetic pickups, and that guitar already had that for more than 10 years ago!
I also like the tremolo system on that guitar :D
Even the pickup mounting is weird, it doesn't have these "ears" on the humbuckers for mounting, but I think the screws under the E and e string are used for mounting the humbucker..
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like parkers..have a very modded p38...love the look and now the sound even more with the piezio and 3 bareknuckles
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like parkers..
I like the parker too! The neck is really stable, and the guitar has lots of sustain.
But....if you like a guitar that sounds like its made of wood...then the parker fly deluxe is no good, because you hear it is not an all wooden guitar.
But hell, it's nice :D
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like parkers..
I like the parker too! The neck is really stable, and the guitar has lots of sustain.
But....if you like a guitar that sounds like its made of wood...then the parker fly deluxe is no good, because you hear it is not an all wooden guitar.
But hell, it's nice :D
I love parkers! one day i'm going to mod a fly to metal monster status :twisted:
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I love parkers! one day i'm going to mod a fly to metal monster status :twisted:
Well, actually they do metal pretty well!
Maybe some day I will change the DiMarzio's for something else, but I'm not sure, because the stock pickups are pretty versatile, but can do metal still very good.
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I guess mine would be the obligatory "first guitar": in my case an old Kay classical. It had a rosewood bridge that was held in place by string tension (i.e. you could move it around) & the strings were tied off onto a steel tailpiece that was attached the the strap button & stretched across the top.
Someone had wrongly strung it with steel strings. As there was no trussrod, by the time it was given to me the neck was like the deck of the Ark Royal! :lol: - the strings were quite literally >1" above the 12th fret.
I had it for about half a term of lessons at school before I bought a cheap dreadnought (£55) from the local music shop...
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A 1988 Ibanez JEM777SK. For those who dont know thats the "shocking pink" model with Bright green and yellow stuff on it....
Yes it was stupid and id do it again for the sheer "i have no idea what the hell im doing with this pink guitar" 80's madness of it.
http://www.jemsite.com/jem/model/jem777sk.htm OH yes now thats a hideous thing....
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A 1988 Ibanez JEM777SK. For those who dont know thats the "shocking pink" model with Bright green and yellow stuff on it....
Yes it was stupid and id do it again for the sheer "i have no idea what the hell im doing with this pink guitar" 80's madness of it.
http://www.jemsite.com/jem/model/jem777sk.htm OH yes now thats a hideous thing....
WHY OH WHY DID YOU DO THAT TO YOURSELF O.O
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The weirdest/stupidest guitar I ever owned was a Dean ML-XT in transparent cherry red.
As anyone that knows me will know, I'm the *least* metal looking person/guitarist you'll ever meet, and the guitar didn't suit me at all.
It also doesn't help that I'm only 5'6" and the guitar looked absolutely massive on me! :roll:
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yup have same problem..being 5'6 why one of my first electrics was my sg..and tried those shocking jems..was when they first came out..yup am that old hated them...but fun to look at
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and originally put a nailbomb and two irish tours in the parker...great metal......now is 3 apaches
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Dont know if you'd call it weird mad or stupid, but I modded an old phoenix telecaster, sprayed it glow in the dark yellow (that stuff you get from halfords) then had a switch for each pickup, so i could switch each one (of the 3 humbuckers i found space for) on an off seperately!
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Dont know if you'd call it weird mad or stupid, but I modded an old phoenix telecaster, sprayed it glow in the dark yellow (that stuff you get from halfords) then had a switch for each pickup, so i could switch each one (of the 3 humbuckers i found space for) on an off seperately!
do you still have it? sounds incredididididible
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I want it!
Get a sims custom job and put in some LEDs.
Then stick 3 warpigs in it.
Switch all 3 on at once :>
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wierdest and stupidest all in one...
(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g244/19770509/IMGP1002.jpg)
I have soooooo lost interest in doing anything with it. I bought a new neck, BKP's, pots etc and now I just cant be bothered.
the neck in the photo is off of somethin else and is just stuck in for the purpose of the photo.
that was a year ago..... I think its got that much dust I might need to hoover it
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Hahahahahahah!
So awesome on so many levels :D
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reminds me of robot wars...
that would be a good guitar to set on fire as part of a stage show.
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i actually kinda dont hate that shocking pink Jem...funny eh? wierdest stupedest guitar i ever owned is this
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Tomsanominous/IMAG0023.jpg)
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/Tomsanominous/IMAG0024.jpg)
unfortunatly the 11th fret was half way on it.
fortunatly i cut it in half and it now supports part of my razorback i'm making.
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hahahahahahahahaha! that's a great little guitar!!!! what you should've done is whacked an UBER OVERWOUND Warpig in there!!!!
you're making a Razorback???? tricky???
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not too hard i find it easier then making a strat cos thheres no curves, BUT as i'm using a bolt on neck have to change it slightly at the top + its slightly smaller then a full blown razor back because i didn't have enough money for more wood (the most expensive part).
Yeah it was a great little guitar, had to tune it alot though...
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actually kinda dont hate that shocking pink Jem...funny eh?
No no i quite understand....i still love them in an "observe the 80's tat" sort of way.........just wouldnt been seen playing one again lol.
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not too hard i find it easier then making a strat cos thheres no curves, BUT as i'm using a bolt on neck have to change it slightly at the top + its slightly smaller then a full blown razor back because i didn't have enough money for more wood (the most expensive part).
Yeah it was a great little guitar, had to tune it alot though...
yeah, i see.
how long will it take to build from now? how far are you into it?
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ive dont the body and the pickups cavity's i'm pissin about with the neck hole though and the back it should'nt be too much longer, my grandad who's very cabable with wood is coming down bringing a router which should speed things right along.
The pups i'm gonna but in this thing are ok there done be a company called swift and there quite bassy but i might shove a miracle man and a holy diver in it when i can afford them. t
the paint job will be mettalic wine red with some abstract art thing on it and i'll get the burnt chrome covers so it should look the shiz (forgive hiphop term).
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ive dont the body and the pickups cavity's i'm pissin about with the neck hole though and the back it should'nt be too much longer, my grandad who's very cabable with wood is coming down bringing a router which should speed things right along.
The pups i'm gonna but in this thing are ok there done be a company called swift and there quite bassy but i might shove a miracle man and a holy diver in it when i can afford them. t
the paint job will be mettalic wine red with some abstract art thing on it and i'll get the burnt chrome covers so it should look the shiz (forgive hiphop term).
forgiven. it was very hip!
sounds great! you need to post in this forum whenever you get it done!
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I have an old Russian 7-string acoustic, ala Volodya Vysotskii or Bulat Okudzhava.
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I must have been stupid for buying this. I just had so much GAS for a mockingbird I just bought the cheapest one I could find. I got a huge discount on because it was a returned item. When I got it, I found out why; the fretboard was pushed off the neck by the truss rod.
The guitar became a project. I installed a replica Jackson neck and it needed a proper pickup. That's when I stumbled across BKP. The Warpig was the perfect pickup for this guitar.
(http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/2355/pigmockbigry9.jpg)
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:o
you absolutely CAN'T play anything but power or folk metal with that