LegacyCore

Thanks for the compliments!! If anything I at least felt like I saved this guitar and gave it new life. Who knows what would of happened to it if I didn't buy it.

Hey everybody, thanks for stopping by to check out my project guitar! Not sure what you all consider projects, be it DIY kits you build from the ground up, or just modifying already built name brand guitars... I guess mine falls under the rebuild a pre-made guitar and modify it while I'm at it. About two months ago I was looking around on my local Facebook market at music equipment, when I came across this set net guitar with a Fender logo on the head. But it had no hardware what so ever, no tuners, no pup's, and no pot. It did still have the nut and the hard-tail bridge on it though. Guy had it listed as a fake Telecaster, which it does have a tele body. The overall guitar looked to be in good shape, and being a set neck, single pot, single HB body intrigued me. So I contacted the seller, asked his bottom dollar price, and met up with him with a fresh $50 bill in hand. At first I could not find ANY info on this guitar, back of head says Made in Korea and it had a serial number I wasn't having any luck finding online. I then ran across one that was sold on Reverb a few years back, and learned that it was a 2003 Fender Esquire Scorpion. Sweet, I got a name and some info now. I then found out they were only made in 2003 and are a pretty rare guitar that I think was made for the Japanese market? Not sure on that one... So it's a mahogany body and neck with rosewood fret board and graphite nut. I've had a few projects in the past and a box full of parts, so I started digging through all my stuff and to my surprise I had everything I needed to make this a working guitar. Parts list: DiMarzio DP100 Super Distortion F Spaced Humbucker Hipshot 21:1 ratio staggered locking tuners (direct fit 2 post!!) PRS 500k push pull pot wired up to volume and coil splitting. Black chrome roller trees. All Parts black chrome roller string saddles. Black Dunlop Straplok Buttons So yeah... So far so good, got it all setup, plugged it into my Peavey Triple XXX amp with Marshall AVT 4x12 cab and this thing is pure METAL. Running a JOYO Vintage Overdrive, gain at 1, tone at half way mark, matching volume level with the crunch channel with the gain at about the 8 o'clock spot on the amp. Got some real punch to it, and chugs very well for a simple metal guitar I'm stoked! I don't remember what I have cost wise in all the parts, but half the stuff has been sitting in a box in my closet for years. I couldn't be happier with this guitar and all for $50!!! I'd say if I would estimate cost of all the parts I have in it... Maybe $140 in parts, so all of this epicness for under $200!!!! Now... I've found a few of these guitars in their original form sell between $450-$500. I VERY much doubt mine is worth anywhere near that since I have all aftermarket parts in it now. And not that I'm looking to sell ever, but I wonder what the value of this guitar would be to somebody? My guess around $300 range if I found somebody that just had to have it... Which leads me to my next step. I don't collect guitars, I play them, I use them, they are a tool to me. So I personally don't have any reservations to heavily changing a guitar. (Unless it's a rare multi-thousand dollar guitar, which then I wouldn't own at all because I can't afford them!) While I guess these Scorpions are rare, they are not particularly worth much so I think I'm going to do something that I very much doubt most of you if any of you would approve of. Sitting in a box in my closet is an original authentic 1980's German made Floyd Rose, and a new Gotoh R2 locking nut. I got a good friend of mine who builds and customizes guitars for a local shop for a living. He kinda owes me, and informed me if I wanted to install my Floyd on this Scorpion, he has the router and template to route the body out and install the tremolo system. How freaking metal would that be??? So... As soon as some time free's up for him, probably after the holiday season. I'm going to have him install the FR on it, which will absolutely destroy any value it has or could obtain from here on out. I've had the FR sitting around for a project for a while now, and I have less than $100 in it as it sits. And with the installation costing me nothing, I don't think I can pass this opportunity up for a seriously one of a kind metal machine for around $290. Thoughts? Anywho, here are some pics of how it currently sits.