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"!!
