Guitar Gallery Thread! Post 'em up!

[sepulchre]

That Melody Maker looks very much like one I had in the 80s. It was a 1962 model. Nice playing axe.

[Reeltarded]

Oh boy. Randal is buying strippers.

[randalp3000]

Oh boy. Randal is buying strippers.

Maybe I like strippers....

I'm thinking Melody Maker with a pair of Firebird pickups, 5 ply guard, shiny new smooth repro tuners, 6105 fret wire, and a wraparound for a plain third.

the Rick is gonna be a bit tricky. I hate to say but it will end up with 2 pickups. I have a pair of new toaster tops but I might try the Rick humbuckers with series/parallel. I think WD has the correct PG material but I'm looking forward to making the pickguard. I think I'm going to use a new Rick tailpiece and some type of nice TOM.

It will be nice having some good gig able guitars with old wood and updated hardware that will be easy to tune.

[Blindog]

Strat is homebrew...body was laying around my favorite local music store back in Oh, no clue as to how old or what it came from.

The Gibson's a '79 355 that I'd found down here in Ga...been doing repair work for the store to pay off the balance and the wife snuck it out and surprised me on Christmas day!

Mark

[Structo]

Lookin great! What's on the back of the last pot there?

That is a passive midrange shaper from Rothstein Guitars.

http://www.guitar-mod.com/rg_passive.html

[randalp3000]

Found it, anyone have a term arm for this bad boy?

[Baxtercat]

I got a similar Hagstrom last year. The freebie came to me w/ no frets, mildew and overspray everywhere. Yep, no whammy bar either.
Sounds pretty cool w/ both bridge and neck pickup selected.

[Reeltarded]

I can make replacement arms for those things in about 2 minutes.

What is the diameter of the rod, is it a threaded insert?

[Baxtercat]

Lemme grab it, take a look.

[Baxtercat]

Inside diameter seems rt. at 5mm [probably wouldn't slide in].
No threads inside the tube but there are in that 'hub' where there's sposed to be a screw for tensioning.
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Thxx for offering! but I've probably got a rod and screw that'll work anyway.
I'm not using the whammy bar, esp. w/ that Ibanez tailpiece I jerry-rigged as a buzzstop. I just tug on the necks to go out of tune.

[randalp3000]

wo, just found this with a simple google
http://www.hagstromparts.se/

[big mac daddy]

Sorry for a few posts - This is my mex tele that has undergone mods about 6 times. this incarnation? a '54 tele coppertop knock off (complete with duncan vintage broadcaster pickups). Had to grind away the poly finish then reprime and finish with copper nitro and clearcoats

[big mac daddy]

A pawn shop rescue of an epiphone biscuit resonator. Figured since I got it for a steal, then rip into it with the dremel and pop in a tele noiseless neck pickup, fishman resonator cone transducer and a volume, tone, blend circuit...this also has a PZP-1 preamp from "cafewalter" inside to match the impedence between the mag pickup and transducer making the blend pot work perfect

[big mac daddy]

My first build from parts - had a local guy with a CNC router cut the body. GFS surf 90 rockabilly pickups in this one - I also cut it down to just tone and pickup selector...not cause I cant wire it different, but to keep the circuit bright and let the instrument sing - if it was good enough for Eddie Van Halen then it should be OK for me. Beautiful salmon nitro on this one

[big mac daddy]

another scratch build. Duncan phatcats in this one. Seafoam green nitro..as you can see, I am a bigsby fan lol.