"BEATER" guitars...lets see em

[Chuckchuck]

Look at these old beaters
http://www.normansrareguitars.com/secret-stash/

[Jero]

Everything on it seems good. Just a bit of gook on the frets and various other places, rusted screws, etc. The nut of course seems really cheap. Need to get different knobs (can't stand those typical metal type), and a vibrato arm once I figure out which one is correct ( ) .
Also, I'm going to refinish it...or sticker it. Haven't decided yet.
I have $48 in it as of now.

You could cover the body with reflective things, like Syd Barrett's Telecaster.

I started working on this finally. Decided to strip it down, uhhg. Haven't begun making that mess yet. Finished getting the neck and frets nice and filed/cleaned up yesterday though. SO much better. After I get a look at the grain I'll decide what finish. A dark stain, likely.

[fever606]

I think the gold-over-silver one qualifies... it's my dedicated "alternate tuning" / basharound / tinker-with guitar, and I lurve it!

[Chuckchuck]

I believe I need a Duo Sonic.

[gunslinger_burrito]

You guys have made some cool shit. Good job. This thread makes me want to build another guitar, even though all the ones I've built and acquired are threatening to run me out of my studio apartment....

[finboy]

I believe I need a Duo Sonic.

Do it

[ognoy]

Heres my beater.
Used to be a Squier Jagmaster. 2 humbuckers and strat trem.
Now it is some kind of Telemaster. Fender MIA Tele-pickup in the bridge, GFS Surf 90 in the neck.
Painted by a bunch of 4 year olds(I'm a kindergarden teacher).

[Obulus]

That paint job is actually really really cool! Need to find me some 4 year olds for some projects that still need finishing

[ognoy]

Thanks Obulus!
I agree on the paint job. The back is painted by me, and I tried to do it in the same style as the front, but it is not nearly as cool.

[The_Unknown_Man]

My Beater currently. Working on some stuff to load onto it

[Phosphene Audio]

I don't have it anymore, but I kind of flogged the Tesla I used to play to death.

[bloatedsack]

defnition of Beater guitar = something you dont give a shit about and can use and abuse. cheapies with mods? partscasters slapped together? abominations of nature...

Changed it up a bit more, made a control plate out of an old license plate; which is, frankly, far more underwhelming than I expected.

A medium scale SX Jazz junker, I paid $40 for it from Craigslist.

It was then used as a valuable tool in learning how to chisel wood, mismatch pickups, re-wiring and soldering, routing without a template, even more re-wiring, and mostly osmething to do on days I was bored over the winter.

Replaced the neck J pup with the Fender Fidelitron pup.
Hand-cut and rusted a steel pickguard.
Chiseled in the cavity for the Artec EB-0 mudbucker clone, a toggle between the neck (now middle) Fidelitron and the mudbucker so I could have one or the other plus the bridge J. Recut the metal pickguard.
Split it to dual outputs. The mudbucker to one, the Fidelitron/J to another.
Randomly routed out a hole for the dual outputs, used the piece of pickguard I cut out of the guard to make its cover.
Bought another Fender Fidelitron, then just sort of moved a router around 'til I could get it in the bridge position. Then mounted it off center because bourbon.

I still need to finish shielding and re-wiring it, I've got all the parts but no interest. I should also remount the pickups, but I don't know how much I really care.

Best $40 I ever spent.

Wish I did it to a full size bass with a more playable neck, I strongly dislike the weird SX neck shape.

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[friendship]

that thing looks fucking righteous

[gnomethrone]

That is one rad bass, sackdude.

[Phosphene Audio]

found this in a shift store with no bridge and dead pickups

the bridge is from something else, screwed onto a thin piece of rosewood

the saddles moved around a lot, so I epoxied them into place