I had 30 bux and a crappy strat copy. Now, it's a weird kind of electric-acoustic.

[Hahutzy]

So I had this crappy Behringer strat copy that was my first guitar. I got a new guitar recently and was debating on what to do with the strat copy.

I decided to set out to do what I've wanted to do for a while now - put an acoustic bridge on an electric guitar and have an acoustic pickup in there.

 

Here's the result:

 

I moved the volume knob down to form a line with the 2 tone knobs.

It's a Master Volume for both electric and acoustic pickups.

One of the tone knob is a Master Electric Tone, the other one's the Acoustic Tone.

I added 2 mini toggle switches above the knobs.

One's Electric ON/OFF, the other one's Acoustic ON/OFF.

 

For the acoustic pickup, I used an Artec AB-1 that I bought for $30 on ebay. It sounds pretty crisp and clean, just line any acoustic guitar would through an amp.

 

I tried having both Electric and Acoustic on at the same time, but it didn't sound too nice.

 

I'm considering putting the whammy bar back on it (underneath the acoustic bridge, almost all of the electric bridge is still intact).

 

So there ya go, it's my first guitar, it's my first mod.

It's my electric-acoustic strat

[MyEmergency]

pics or you made a drum out of a coffee can.

[Hahutzy]

I didn't take pics when I was wiring/solder/drilling, if that's what you meant lol.

 

Here's a vid I took demonstrating the diff pickups, I guess.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxHrXnUVnoI

[jpnyc]

At least someone found a use for those awful Behringer guitars.