Keegan Posted March 17, 2009 Report Share Posted March 17, 2009 Thought I'd chronicle my work on my new LP so far. Original: Step 1- Removed the plastic crap Step 2- Replaced the electronics with a stacked vol/tone and a 25dB preamp Step 3- Made a back plate(out of some scrap padouk and some minwax poly/stain i found lying around) To come: Pickguard, truss rod cover, pickup cover, locking bridge studs, metal jack plate, and eventually a pigtail aluminum bridge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IPA or death Posted March 18, 2009 Report Share Posted March 18, 2009 Cool guitar. I built one just like it several years ago. For some reason I put a slight neck angle on it. I like the idea of the preamp, I may do that myself. Good luck on the rest of the modding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegan Posted March 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 (edited) More progress. Put on locking steel bridge studs and made a pickup cover out of aluminum. Also replaced the pickup pole screws with alloy steel hex cap screws and put some bolts in the soapbar mounting holes to attach the cover. The studs increased sustain quite a bit, and the aluminum cover cut down on noise. Edited March 22, 2009 by Keegan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ae3 Posted March 22, 2009 Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 The cavity cover is almost invisible, good work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegan Posted March 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 (edited) Haha. Yeah, I wasn't really concerned with making it match either. I used padouk and stained it with the only stain we have(which just happened to be satin cherry, a satin cherry close to the satin cherry of the guitar). It's a little less red and a little more orange in person, but it ended up pretty good. Edit- Got this fine piece of metal in the mail today from Germany: Edited March 23, 2009 by Keegan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halfaed Posted March 24, 2009 Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 You should minwax the screw holes on the front to camo them a little. Gotta like the clean look! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegan Posted March 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2009 You should minwax the screw holes on the front to camo them a little. Gotta like the clean look! It's going to have a pickguard, just not yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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