Members Brett Valentine Posted July 11, 2007 Members Share Posted July 11, 2007 Some may debate the value of buying a cheap guitar and spending as much or maybe more to tailor it to your imagination. To me, the experience of the "ride" is worth the price of admission if the basic guitar has good tone and playability. Here's my current 2. Both guitars bought for under $400.00. Brian Moore i21 ($345.00 used)____________Hamer SATQ ($325.00 new) They both play effortlessly and get stupid tones! Both have Duncan Pickups, Master volume, master coil cut, individual phase reversal for each p/u, modded TBX, Torres Tone/Mid control, treble bleed, locking tuners, Orange drop caps (tone caps are Hovland-i21, V Cap SATQ), strap locks, oh yeah, and speed knobs (love those), 500K DPDT volume controls. I have more expensive, but either of these two get picked up first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members tincob Posted July 11, 2007 Members Share Posted July 11, 2007 Are those bolt-on's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members natasmi Posted July 11, 2007 Members Share Posted July 11, 2007 Free Epiphone Junior, older Korean variety, Intonable Wilkonson Bridge, $19.99Guitar Center Hot Humbucker, Planet Waves Autotrim Tuners. Plays Great, Rocks Hard. ' alt='>'> ' alt='>'> ' alt='>'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Bbreaker Posted July 11, 2007 Members Share Posted July 11, 2007 Sam Ash gave me this Carlo Robelli Strat. As in free. It originally had a white p/g and 3 single coil p/u's. I had a Duncan Distortion and a push/pull pot..........I asked my luthier to make a single ply black guard; route the guitar for a single humbucker and set it up. Cost me $60.00..........I then bought a Roland Synth p/u and installed it myself. Here's the Luigi Guitar........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tupelo Son Posted July 11, 2007 Members Share Posted July 11, 2007 Not much to say bout these. GFS bridges & the blackie has a GFS Retron Memphis & the SB has a Mean90. Two identical playing but very different sounding 51's. $$ well spent around $300 total combined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dcooper830 Posted July 11, 2007 Members Share Posted July 11, 2007 Here's an Epiphone LP Studio I got for $270 shipped with hardcase: I installed Gibson Burstbucker PRO pickups in it. And put a set of good Grover tuners on. The originals were cheapie vintage style 12:1 tuners. My tuner installation was pretty much a hack job.... but it works great now, and this guitar plays and sounds GREAT!! It's a complete gem! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cletus Spuckle Posted July 11, 2007 Members Share Posted July 11, 2007 What is that CE sticker on the back of the headstock? I see those things all over but I've never been able to figure out what they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dcooper830 Posted July 11, 2007 Members Share Posted July 11, 2007 What is that CE sticker on the back of the headstock? I see those things all over but I've never been able to figure out what they are. I'm not sure what that is..... but I've since removed all the stickers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Burgess Posted July 11, 2007 Members Share Posted July 11, 2007 Just click the pic if you want details... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members _pete_ Posted July 11, 2007 Members Share Posted July 11, 2007 PRS SE EG. Replaced the pups & pots with an EMG SA set with an EMG expander control (middle knob). Goes from Stratty single coil sound to full humbucker sound with a turn of that knob. I cut the pickguard from a sheet of 3 ply black. I also added Planet Waves locking tuners, Q-Parts knobs, a Tremol-No, and routed it for a battery box in the back. It's a great playing and sounding guitar (incredibly good neck) but I'm thinking about possibly selling it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TravvyBear Posted July 11, 2007 Members Share Posted July 11, 2007 I put Lipstick tube pups in my Cyclone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members natasmi Posted July 11, 2007 Members Share Posted July 11, 2007 The CE stands for "certified europe" I think, something to do with the electronics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stingxnj Posted July 12, 2007 Members Share Posted July 12, 2007 Modded '06 MIM Tele Standard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vermintide Posted July 12, 2007 Members Share Posted July 12, 2007 Westfield SG clone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sylvesterlowery Posted July 12, 2007 Members Share Posted July 12, 2007 Squier Bullet Originally had chrome hardware. Replaced the tuners(Gotoh), bridge, strap buttons,jackplate, knob, and added a killswitch. Ibanez RG 120 Added black sealed tuners(Ping), green pickup rings, green knobs, green logo, lotsa stickers and cut the nut for 11-58 strings, tuned down to A standard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members xStonr Posted July 12, 2007 Members Share Posted July 12, 2007 $199 Agile. Lindy Fralin P/U's, bone nut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members housered Posted July 12, 2007 Members Share Posted July 12, 2007 Just click the pic if you want details... I am loving the code. That is so clever. At first I thought you were kidding when you said to click on the picture for details. I had never come accros that before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MojoFilter Posted July 12, 2007 Members Share Posted July 12, 2007 I posted this one in a thread last week...a $69 Squier '51 that got the works: And I posted this one a few months ago...a MIM Strat that also got the works: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Zappa74 Posted July 12, 2007 Members Share Posted July 12, 2007 GFS Mean 90s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ashasha Posted July 12, 2007 Members Share Posted July 12, 2007 This one came to fruition out of need. I had a Roland VG-8 and needed that damn GK-2A pickup in order for it to work. Only guitar I had was a MIA Roland Ready strat for several years at that point. I wanted something with a TOM on it. So I bought this UM-3 off of E-Bay and an external Roland pickup. It worked, but was just kind of cheezy looking with that big plastic thing on there. So I decided to make it an internal mount. Before with the big old nasty looking thing on there. Here's the board apart and modified with quick connects to get it in there. I actually made that 13 pin mount from an old Atari line connector, an XLR mount and some hot glue, epoxy, heat shrink and a lot of soldering. The short cables were a pain in the ass because they were so close together. It plugs into the jack on the GK-2A board. I was going to desolder it and try to use it, but I was worried about trashing the board and it wouldn't fit in a mount anyway. Here is the board mounted inside the cavity. It was a tight fit. Here is is today, I swtiched out the crappy pickups with some original Duncan Designs from another guitar that I had upgraded the pups on. They aren't the best pickups ever, but they are 10X better then what was in there. I also added some coil splitting switches. I couldn't go with push/pull pots because the first knob is actually 50 ohms for the GK pickup and the second is dual concentric for the regular ones. If you look at the rear humbucker mounting ring you see a set of switches to control the VG-8 as well. That was a lot of fun getting in there. Hell I forgot, this was a factory second and the pickups were mounted all cockeyed and misaligned. If you look at the bridge pickup ring you can really see where I had to fill and remount the pickup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members _pete_ Posted July 12, 2007 Members Share Posted July 12, 2007 This one came to fruition out of need. I had a Roland VG-8 and needed that damn GK-2A pickup in order for it to work. Only guitar I had was a MIA Roland Ready strat for several years at that point. I wanted something with a TOM on it. So I bought this UM-3 off of E-Bay and an external Roland pickup. It worked, but was just kind of cheezy looking with that big plastic thing on there. So I decided to make it an internal mount. Before with the big old nasty looking thing on there. Here's the board apart and modified with quick connects to get it in there. Here is the board mounted inside the cavity. It was a tight fit. Here is is today, I swtiched out the crappy pickups with some original Duncan Designs from another guitar that I had upgraded the pups on. They aren't the best pickups ever, but they are 10X better then what was in there. I also added some coil splitting switches. I couldn't go with push/pull pots because the first knob is actually 50 ohms for the GK pickup and the second is dual concentric for the regular ones. If you look at the rear humbucker mounting ring you see a set of switches to control the VG-8 as well. That was a lot of fun getting in there. That is some truly excellent work! Very nice job and very creative. :thu: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ArKay Posted July 12, 2007 Members Share Posted July 12, 2007 This is my most modded one. Replaced the tele bridge pickup with a DiMarzio DP-110 single-coil to which I glued the baseplate from the old pickup, added a middle position Wilkinson single-coil (new route) & neck pickup (widened route), 5-way switch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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