New project (Gibson RD custom)
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 5:49 am
Zup!
I had so much fun modding my Jonas brothers guitar so i decided to continue with something else.
Found this purdy little thing on ebay and thought it would be a perfect project
before i got it i was planning on stripping it of its lacquer but when i got it i realized that it looks way to cool to be tempered with
I have bought an Bill Lawrence L-500XL and had an old humbucker sized p90 laying at home so that's kind of figured out.
The bridge has kind of puzzled me tho... i dont know if it is made for a abr 1 or Nashville system (and i haven't really figured out the difference either...)
was thinking about either a faber or glennadale bridge but i haven't really decided yet (may start with something cheaper)
was thinking about some schaller tuners since i dont really want to make any more holes in it..
and speaking of holes, i'm thinking about wiring it with one volume control and a blend control only (was thinking about getting some plastic plugs for the other
holes or mabe just leave it as is... haven't decided that yet either)
oh and it needs a refret so i'm thinking about PLEK-ing it at the same time
Edit: took some time but now its getting somewhere.
So i stripped the lacquer and got some cool wide range humbuckers from the creamery. I have tried different values of the pots
that i had laying around at home and settled for a 280k one (might try a 500K one later tho..). The dark red colour is actually some weird
spray paint for cars that a friend had laying around. I think it turned out really nice!. I will have it Plekt later when i have saved up some money
but for now it will works
did a short video too so you can hear it as well.. it's crap but what the heck!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNyXI-2IJkQ[/youtube]
I had so much fun modding my Jonas brothers guitar so i decided to continue with something else.
Found this purdy little thing on ebay and thought it would be a perfect project
before i got it i was planning on stripping it of its lacquer but when i got it i realized that it looks way to cool to be tempered with
I have bought an Bill Lawrence L-500XL and had an old humbucker sized p90 laying at home so that's kind of figured out.
The bridge has kind of puzzled me tho... i dont know if it is made for a abr 1 or Nashville system (and i haven't really figured out the difference either...)
was thinking about either a faber or glennadale bridge but i haven't really decided yet (may start with something cheaper)
was thinking about some schaller tuners since i dont really want to make any more holes in it..
and speaking of holes, i'm thinking about wiring it with one volume control and a blend control only (was thinking about getting some plastic plugs for the other
holes or mabe just leave it as is... haven't decided that yet either)
oh and it needs a refret so i'm thinking about PLEK-ing it at the same time
Edit: took some time but now its getting somewhere.
So i stripped the lacquer and got some cool wide range humbuckers from the creamery. I have tried different values of the pots
that i had laying around at home and settled for a 280k one (might try a 500K one later tho..). The dark red colour is actually some weird
spray paint for cars that a friend had laying around. I think it turned out really nice!. I will have it Plekt later when i have saved up some money
but for now it will works
did a short video too so you can hear it as well.. it's crap but what the heck!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNyXI-2IJkQ[/youtube]
