OrenG

I just looked up the Ibanez Pick Holder strip and I'm trying to figure out a cheaper alternative because the only place that has it for sale wants around 20 bucks for it. It says it's reusable, adheres to the guitar and the pick, yet leaves no residue and if it begins to not adhere as well, just wash it under water. Something tells me it might have to do with static but I'm not sure. Anyone know?

Nope, I was planning on getting a spray nozzle along with the spray paint.

Bump. Any information for my questions ^ would be appreciated.

I'm going to stop changing my mind every five seconds about what I want in a tail piece/bridge so for now I'll leave that alone. What I do know is I'm going to add a DIY black ice overdrive, as well as route a larger control cavity to accommodate more knobs and switches compared to the existing which is only one volume knob. While I'm still writing this I might as well discuss these items: I need to know how to/where to get - Fender Trans-White paint - finish the neck so it has a "mild golden vintage tint" - template for firebird pickups - Firebird pickups If anyone needs reference pictures to better understand what I want as the outcome for this project, Click Here. I have found that upon closer inspection of the neck, I was right in that it has no truss rod. -Many Thanks, OrenG

Obviously the holes need to be perpendicular to the body or the ferrules wont line up, a drill press is the job for this. Although, the first time I did ferrules i didn't have access to a press so i drilled plenty of holes in a piece of wood, found the 'squarest' one and used that hole as a guide for the string through holes. It worked fine but a press is much easier, faster and foolproof. Hmm, since I don't have relatively easy access to a drill press, I may want to go the route of a Les Paul style tailpiece and bridge. Something like this and this. Hopefully once I strip the paint, I can fill the existing holes for the existing bridge with some wood putty. I'll have to check this once I'm at home, but I don't think there is a truss rod inside the neck since it is so low cost. Does anyone have any recommendations on how to solve this? It appears to be a once piece maple neck.

Alright I've run into a small problem with the bridge. Upon changing the crap factory strings to Boomers, I realized that the tail piece is similar to a hard tail strat, however the anchor-holes are not going through the body, but instead through holes in the bridge. If I was to replace the bridge, how would I go about drilling holes and installing these?

Next weekend is the weekend that I start this epic process of transforming this guitar into a one of a kind masterpiece. First up on my To-Do list is buy paint and strip, prep, prime and paint, then clear coat the body, and move on to sanding and clear coating the neck. (the neck isn't smooth at all, nor does it have any sort of sealant to protect it from use.) I'm thinking of adding a few things to the paint job. For some reason I want to cross the 60's/70's/moon landing together in the theme of the guitar. Starting with the NASA logo font as a decal. Anyone else got any ideas?

I can't believe I forgot this, but I finally got pictures of the thing. I will edit this post when the pictures are uploaded to my Flickr account and a link will be provided. EDIT: here it is Photos I apologize for the quality, I took them quick with my crappy 2 megapixel camera and forgot to compare it to a standard ruler for size comparison.

The guitar has been purchased, I will begin work on it as soon as I get my materials. It plays ok, frets are slightly on the small side, but over all it will serve it's purpose as a travel guitar. I'm thinking about making the headstock less pointy and more strat like by using some sort of belt or power sander. -OrenG

Frank, Thanks for the input, I'm a big fan of your work; I had no idea that you posted here as well as on MyLesPaul. I really can't say why Restoration Hardware carries the things they do, as with the vintage toys, to the pocket hand warmers and shredding scissors, Restoration Hardware would be the last place someone would look to find a guitar. However the sad part is that it is only sold online or through their catalog.

Here are the rest of the pictures

I really hate it when I do this, but I've decided to go a different route with the guitar. If you've been on eBay looking for strats, no doubt you'll come across Mandi's FireCaster. I'm going to attempt a mini FireCaster clone with the parts as follows. Gold Schaller Tuners Gold rolling string trees Graphtech Graphite Nut Gotoh Tune-O-Matic/Tailpiece Volume/Tone knobs (Gibson Gold Top Knobs) Two Gibson Firebird Vintage Gold pickups Small 3 ply white pickguard Gibson Three way switch, gold. (Possible if found, Hard rock Singapore and Las Vegas key chains/pins cut off and used as headstock back/front "logos") (If I really wanted to go overkill on this thing more then it already is, I would throw in a Gold Schaller Original Floyd Rose With Ghost Acostic Saddles.) and of course the Restoration Hardware mini strat which has now dropped in price from 150$ to 74$ :D Here are some rehosted pictures from the ebay auction since they go down and out about every week, and hotlinking isn't nice Credit goes to Mandiscustomshop ebay user.

Hello, It's been a while since I last wrote in, and this time I should be able to pull off this project with very little money. the base of the project is this: http://www.restorationhardware.com/rh/cata...&navCount=4 5 Gold Schaller M6 Tuners 1 Gold Hipshot Xtender with gold M6 Schaller 2 Fender String Guide Am Stan Gold 1 Floyd Rose Locking Nut, L5, Gold (Tail piece/bridge undecided) Volume/Tone knobs (Gibson Gold Top Hat Knobs) Two Gibson Firebird Vintage Gold pickups Small 3 ply white pickguard (custom made in AutoCAD) 1 Gibson Three way switch, gold 1 Gibson toggle switch ring, cream and gold lettering 1 Gold Allen Key Holder (mounted on the back of headstock) Custom Decal How does that sound for a travel guitar? -OrenG

Ohhh... Damn! I didn't even notice, thanks for that. However I still need someone to answer my two questions Please?

Does anyone have an answer to both questions?