Cult Classic

cheers i have a strat replica im working on atm but its not going anywhere atm because im being lazy. treating it to a full rub down soon and ill update my thread when i get round to it

i dont feel confident building a body and a neck and all that shizz right now. i can bearly get a finger joint correct let alone an lp body made of fancy wood. stripping and modding is more my thing.

many thanks for your time consuming help. i think ill just save up, buy an epiphone (they seem to be going cheap on the bay) and strip that down and make it my own. in the mean time ill stick to fiddling about with my fake LP thanks again for helping the newbie. Jono.

bugger >_<. i was considering a replica of the burst, because i have a cheapy LP replica thats cherry burst.. albeit its made of pine and not the posh woods used on real LP's and then later perhaps i can build my own signature guitar. so would transplanting the JPLP electrics into the cheapy lp be feasible? is pine a terrible guitar body/neck material? thanks Jono.

many thanks for that. iv seen a video and i like the amount of choice you get. for the record this is what im hoping to replicate (print screened from the gibson website)

been fiddling about on the net again today (which is really slow thanks to the sales) what you have said is pretty much correct i woul think. the pickups are supposed to be exclusive on the model that gibson sell on their website, but im led to beleive that they are just normal pickups that have been split (im learning things here ) and of course there are the four push pull pots. i have found a kit on ebay (link) what are your thoughts on this kit?, tbh i think its overpriced but im not clued up on the cost of push pull pots and the like. many thanks for your time. Jono.

im willing to give anything a go at learning. and this would be a long term build so timescale not a huge factor.

Hello all, im looking into a future build... something i would like to carry out when im more expierienced in the building of guitars. as the title suggests, im wanting to build a replica...a very very good carbon copy of the original guitar. mainly due to my love of les pauls, led zep and jimmy page as a guitarist. only problem being is that some of the stuff fitted was one off. the pickups for example if i remember rightly. is it possible for me to do this? many thanks for your time. Jono.

cheers for that. ill save up for those. many thanks.

im a guitar newbie, so i dunno what you mean by pickup output. amp wise im using a vox valvetronic.

Hello all. I'm after some new humbuckers for my LP. the Le is just a cheap replica but some new pickups will make a big difference im sure. its also been set up. what kind of thing do you think suits me? i play anything from classic rock, to metal, to ska. so im looking for a decent all rounder. many thanks Jono.

thanks for that keegan. be prepared for more noob questions in the future!

im interested in learning how to do work myself. i know the classic mini (the car) inside out thanks to months on another forum, so im looking to learn things here if i can. what does "setting up" involve? p.s i havnt got the guitar yet, it should arrive around tuesday onward.

its a "liberty"

Hello all, Not been on here in a while but hello again. just bought another guitar.. which most of you would says is rubbish and a waste of money but i couldnt be happier with it to be fair. this is it... im just wondering. as its a replica it isnt exactly going to be like the real thing... what kind of things should i be doing to improve it? im new to guitars and dont want to embark on building one just yet! many thanks Jono.

stupid paint is impossible to get. you can get it on ebay but only in tiny cans... an halfords never seem to have it anymore, just my luck really. god damn had to choose pegot antelope beige really didnt i.

well my neck is just waxed wood so im not needing to do that. thankyou for the info and praise Jonathan

thankyou kind sir.

thankyou mister! i didnt know about the link thing so cheers for the info, youll have to give me more detail on making it sound better, i dont really understand but thanks for the heads up cheers Jono

anyone?

ahh cheers for that people is there anything from the uk? or do i have to order from the us..

Im looking to stain my guitar neck red, at the moment its just plain waxed.. can anyone link me where to get red stain?

Hey all, I have been slowly retoring an encore strat, that for a while i have been wanting to repaint. I took it party apart quite a while ago, then put it in my dads shed and forgot about it. i have been using my other guitar for lessons, which i never knew the origins of so i duly researched it and it turns out its a budget japanese guitar called a "Surf Special", made by a company called Audition (which i will also be restoring at some point). Anyway, over the time it was in my dads shed the bridge, tremelo arm and the claw and springs that go behind it went missing so i duly ordered that lot from ebay. This is it before i started (left) i then flatted it down with wet and dry pic2 pic3 then i primed it pic4 pic5 and stuck paint on it pic6 then today i started flatting down the drips but then ran out of paint so tomorrow im going to whizz out and get another can! thats all from me! comment away...