Members 333maxwell Posted March 14, 2010 Members Share Posted March 14, 2010 Just finished this lil project.. it was created from the best of 3 git's laying around, and some parts in a drawer.. It has the Sustainiac sustainer I installed and an extra heavy sustain block, military grade pots etc etc.. this is one of those guitars that the parts far exceed the worth of the guitar, still.. I love the darn thing.. just dropped in the final screw and outside of some routing issues for the battery, I dub her finished.. This is my trouble spot.. I need to route as shown in the picture.. for all the die hard trem fans, running the springs this way causes no instability.. you would never know it was this way unless told.. And this is what I had to fit in to a tight strat cavity.. It wouldn't quite fit... so I used a hammer and screwdriver in the middle of the night as I didn't have access to any other tools and I wanted to finish it.. And when working with all those extra dangling wires, watch out for the cat.. the second I took this photo the cat reached up and pulled it out of my hands, good thing it landed on the bed. Freakin cats.. Anyways, just wanted to share with any mod cats out there.. I loves me a good project.. While it will never be worth anything compared to my custom shop strat (for example) in so many ways it could eat it for breakfast. Nothing better than taking an inexpensive guitar and turning it into a monster. Peace~! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 333maxwell Posted March 15, 2010 Author Members Share Posted March 15, 2010 Ok.. need to setup the action and neck a bit still and route the battery. Here is the basic sound idea of what the Modded frankenstrat with thesustainiac device on can start to do. There are no displays of any musicianship here, just making some sounds,trying to get a feel for the thing myself. Today is the first day I actually sat down to play the thing and I am just not into it (funny how that works out). But as promised here is a clip. Those who understand sustainers will findnothing of interest in the clip. The curious might though. And again,sorry for the lack of 'music' on this one.. I just wanted to displaysome of what one could expect to hear from this kind of device. And whilethe sounds are fun, the real joy is in the feel of strings coming aliveunder your fingers, even late at night with headphones. -- The beginning I hit an E chord a few times so you can hear what she sounds like clean. I am running it through a 60 dollar Behringer Modeler withit set to a dirtied bassman setting with some reverb. Other than that itis just the guitar doing what it does. I'd like to get some clips of it through a live amp, because it reallydoes come alive. As soon as I get it set up and playable (A bit stiff rightnow) I'll drop some more clips of some fingerpicking and clean sounds. IN the mean time I hope this suffices, and again, sorry for the shoddyplaying.. it was just a one time through, is what it is thang. I haven'ta creative bone in my body at the moment, nor do I feel like playing much.(But I do feel like setting it up). http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8884138 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hank_chaos Posted March 15, 2010 Members Share Posted March 15, 2010 sexyi love me a good mod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 333maxwell Posted March 15, 2010 Author Members Share Posted March 15, 2010 sexyi love me a good mod Thanks Hank, glad someone enjoyed it~!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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