Johannah Montana - HM2 Guitar

[JohnnyC]

something ive been working on for the last few months...


a what was i thinking momment...picked up essentially the kit version of the hannah montana/disney princess/highschool musical washburn 3/4 guitar.

its sooo bad...in every aspect...









at least the neck pocket/join is nice and tight
not sure if the photos translate it very well...but everything feels irough as f**k!

[JohnnyC]

outline for the battery cover/cavity and HM2 PCB. "Strategically" located taking into account the front control plate location. Going for the least amount of work necessary for pushing wires through. routing template? got no time for dat!



oh hi premier guitar!



keeps getting better. pickguard neck pocket won't fit when neck is attached. requires filing.
Do we even need a neck pickup?
<$10 worth of cement putty right here...thats $10 way over budget for this>

[JohnnyC]

free hand dodgy rout job...on the floor...after a couple of beers.





just in case there were any doubts. booyah!
"crafted in china"'

[JohnnyC]

zero sanding or prepwork. smearded some extra putty over the neck pickup and wire chanel rout cavity. scraped it semi flush. it will be for a special "effect" later on...

[JohnnyC]

Curious as to what the plasti-dip spraying would be like on a guitar? (aka rubber in a can)
me too...











very interesting to use this plasti-dip stuff. i feel it requires a slightly different technique to the rattle can job. thicker coatings and it sorta just molds itself together.
emptied a whole can on the body and headstock (got 2 coats)
came out ok, a few drips but not that fussed...especially for zero prep work (no sanding or cleaning)

[JohnnyC]

[JohnnyC]

POS bridge, replaced with another POS Bridge.





had to do some extra drilling for the strings and routing to accomodate the humbucker mounting ears

[JohnnyC]

upgraded the stock POS tuneres with some wilkinsons


and all hail my ms paint skills.

[JohnnyC]

surprisingly no hole for the pickup wire to control cavity.



spur of the momment decision...relic'd

[JohnnyC]

as usual forgot string ferrules. had a month pass by



Battery compartment issues, lost the connector/or never received them, cant remember...so required some dodgy modifications. at the stage of not caring anymore.




stock wired control plate. ditching everything except the plate itself. the humbucker will be wired straight into the HM2 pcb (H and L fixed on full) with controls for colume and dist, straight to output jack.

[JohnnyC]

pcb was actually about 1-2mm too big on one section. dodgy free hand routes. was too lazy to take the router out, so carefully angle grinded a 1-2mm off one side of PCB. yup...at the stage of not caring anymore.





Gibson Iommi Humbucker, wired straight into HM2, straight to output jack. 3/4 kids guitar, with a .54 low string which just gets me to C#

[JohnnyC]

[JohnnyC]

once its setup...episode I begins filming and will be hosting some "johannah montana episodes" on the AA youtube channel.

if you do the facebook thing...this is the accompanying page....if you care...
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Johannah ... _new_likes

[JohnnyC]

teaser vid

[DRodriguez]

This is amazing.