NGD/what should I do with this strat

[AZX309]

So my best friend found this Epiphone strat copy in the back of his closet and handed it off to me.



Needs a bit of work. need to replace the super shitty tuners with decent ones, missing strap pins, ect.

The electronics dont currently work. To me it sounds like its grounding out somewhere. par of me just wants to rewire it with just one volume per pickup and ditch the switch altogether. The aother part of me wants to go full DIRGE and rip out the gaurd and put in a fresh torticeshell one with tripple P90's

thoughts?

[wafl]

Seven strat pickups...

...In series.

[ognoy]

And a bigsby

[popvulture]

That thing looks awesome! Subtly odd. It's like an exercise in omission.

I wish there were more things missing... like the 12th fret markers or something

But yeah, I love the absent middle pickup and tone knob. I dunno—I wouldn't fuck with it too much! Just get it working and see how it sounds before you mess around too much

[Chankgeez]

Replace the pickups with Strat-sized humbuckers?

[AZX309]

Replace the pickups with Strat-sized humbuckers?

I already have humbucker guitars, and this has to fill in for my tele.

I opened it up today to find a nice HSH route under the hood

[Chankgeez]

Put a humbucker-sized Charlie Christian in the neck position?

[Hyphen Nation]

Gold Foils! Or a set of these could be awesome: http://www.roadhousepickups.com/pickups/kt-100-1

I like Chankgeez's suggestion, too.

[CyaNitrate]

On guitars I had with two pickups, a switch, and a master tone and volume, I would always rewire it for independent volumes, as I tend to keep tone maxed 99% of the time. Then you can go from mid volume neck to full bore bridge by flicking the switch, or killing the volume on one pup and the switch tremelo thing like Ace Frehley of Tom Morelof.

-or-

You could get a 4 way tele switch, and get the series/neck/parallel/bridge switching. I love this on my tele.

[Adamadamadam]

You could get a 4 way tele switch, and get the series/neck/parallel/bridge switching.

Throw a tele bridge pickup into the bridge position.

Didn't the Fender CS have a Richie Blackmore strat with a missing middle pickup at one point?

[field balm]

Top loaded tele bridge, tele bridge pickup, paf/bucker in the neck. Get real wierd with it.

I reckon a black pickguard would look sick. The headstock shape is trashy in an awesome way.

[BoatRich]

Top loaded tele bridge, tele bridge pickup, paf/bucker in the neck. Get real wierd with it.

I reckon a black pickguard would look sick. The headstock shape is trashy in an awesome way.

This is definitely a solid idea. It would look sick as a tele/strat hybrid.

[wafl]

If you put a tele bridge on there you should throw a simple fuzz or distortion into the trem cavity.

[lordgalvar]

Tape a korg monotron delay to it. Put a theremin antenna in the truss rod cavity. Strap locks.

[fcknoise]

Careful with pickguard changes though, it will most likely be a PITA if it doesn't match up with standard fender measurements. I also like the pickup config, but you can change the pups for something interesting, maybe strat sized p90s or something. Personally I'd sand down the color and stain it to some pretty color. And I've always been interested in those on-board electronics