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I bought an SG from this guy: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/nowthenourkidshop...0QQftidZ2QQtZkm

it turned up today & I'm really pleased with it. The action's quite high, strings are cheap, pickup selector is the wrong way round & the paint job is a bit rough but.....for what I'm using it for, it's great. It would even be a great Xmas pressie if it had a bit of a setup.

I'm basically going to strip it. I got the SG because it has a 3+3 headstock so I can use the tuners, 4X pots which I can use on 2 guitars, square jack-socket plate, chrome pickup covers, tunomatic & best of all a 24.3/4" scale length....the fingerboard's getting transplanted onto a homemade neck. So with all that hardware it worked out cheaper than buying a load of cheap parts elsewhere....result! I might even be able to sell the body back on ebay.

I was really tempted with the floyd loaded pointy thing but decided against it after reading about the problems associated with licensed floyds.

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If you don't pull the fret board off, I'll swap you the body and neck for a pre slotted fretboard and enough jumbo fret wire to fret it. Hell, I might even be able to throw some other gubbins in there too, I'll have to see what I've got (free full size print outs of any guitar plans).

Seems a shame to pull a fret bboard off a perfectly good neck.

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:D sweet! I just set up a friends Maya copy that he got off ebay for about £40 (including postage) needed the wiring touching up ( there were some very bad joints!). Made a few cosmetic changes and shimmed the neck to get a resonable action and it now plays quite nicely (pickups were even wound pretty hot unlike some of the well know cheep brands). The body was made out of about 6 or 7 pieces minimum but at least it was actually hard wood.

Its suprising how cheeply you can actually get gutiars these days. After a bit of work I'm sure most of them would play pretty well and sound half decent too.

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If you don't pull the fret board off, I'll swap you the body and neck for a pre slotted fretboard and enough jumbo fret wire to fret it. Hell, I might even be able to throw some other gubbins in there too, I'll have to see what I've got (free full size print outs of any guitar plans).

Seems a shame to pull a fret bboard off a perfectly good neck.

hmmmm..... :D

The reason for not just getting a slotted fingerboard & some fret wire was that I don't have any fretting tools or experience with fretting so, after some advice from a PG member, I decided that a cheap neck & transplanting the board might be a good compromise. I would like to move up to doing a full fret job but I want to take it one step at a time really....but I am tempted by that offer :D

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How about if a threw in a neck instead (or aswell), it's a 6 on one side, pointy version of a fender. 25 inch scale. Headstock painted with blue hammerite (don't ask). Came off a vantage.

Got a few bits and pieces that could go. Black fender scratch plate (also off the Vantage) with HB/SC/SC. Would even let iot go with the (not very good) pups.

Let me know what it is you'd be interested in. The girlfriend will love me getting another guitar body :D

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How about if a threw in a neck instead (or aswell), it's a 6 on one side, pointy version of a fender. 25 inch scale. Headstock painted with blue hammerite (don't ask). Came off a vantage.

Got a few bits and pieces that could go. Black fender scratch plate (also off the Vantage) with HB/SC/SC. Would even let iot go with the (not very good) pups.

Let me know what it is you'd be interested in. The girlfriend will love me getting another guitar body :D

I've sent you an email, the messenger didn't seem to work :D

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