Sabu2k1

pickup placement looks weird, but overall the guitar looks very awesome!

btw, whats CA?

very nice!

what did you use to fill in the wood dings? (if it had any)

Mighty mite makes an LP styled maple neck, just like you're looking for. No need for a quote, they sell for $69 on ebay.

Really? do the offer neck binding and white headstocks?

Once you strip it back to bare wood, you should be able to stream them out with a wet rag and an iron. As for the neck, could you possibly just bleach the thing to get it to look more the way you want it. I take it the idea is to have the neck better match the white body right?

I already took the binding off, I took it to work and used the routers there and the binding came right off,

Well, I could do that, but theres no way I can do neck binding, or fret a neck, thats why im asking for a neck quote.

Sorry for the double post

anyway

I added the black binding to the back of the guitar, looks really cool

the front I will do next week

I still have to scrape the binding flush and sand it clean

Wow

all plywood?

I did the routing today, the back came out fine and the front not so good, I will have to hand sand the path for the binding do that it lays straight and dosen't curve.

I will have to put 2 pieces of normal binding over the slot to make up for the deep slots I routed

Also, hat do you guys recommend I use to fill in the dings?

I might not keep the neck, since its rosewood and I was hoping to get a maple neck.

I'll keep you guys updated.

I'm with billious on this one...especially if you're planning on replacing the neck...doesn't make any sense at all, really. How can it 'feel like butter' if a) it doesn't have any strings, and b ) you're getting rid of the neck?

Another question--is the guitar solid wood or just plywood? That's the biggest problem with most of those cheapos from yesteryear. The guitars were usually plywood, even the Epiphones --they didn't have the same sources of cheap lumber they have now. Nowadays, even the cheapest guitars are solid wood, albeit not always the most noble of tonewoods.

Don't be fooled by the hype about the Japanese, they churned out enormous quantities of crap guitars too. And the Koreans only moved into the quality guitar segment in the mid-1990s. Before that, they were largely producing garbage. (In other words, they were equivalent to today's Indonesian guitar industry)

It's a matter of developing the technical skills. What's impressive about the Chinese is the speed with which they've moved from producing garbage to achieving a certain level of quality. But that may just be the better CNC machines.

So if it's a plywood body and you're ditching the neck...well, the project just doesn't make any sense at all.

But hey, it's your project!

Hey, thanks for the heads up man, I said it felt like butter because when I strung it up with 2 strings, it played very good.

I'm not "fooled" by any hype, I once got a squier strat for $75 that was a tone machine, so I think I don't fall into the "hype" genre, I like to try stuff for myself if its resonable.

I haven't checked if the guitar was plywood or solid, I will do so when I check the front and remove all hardware from the front, I just sanded the back cause it was free of parts.

Im only thinking about ditching the neck, thats why im waiting for a price quote, if its too much, then no, but the pickups im putting in this thing will cost more than the guitar, lol.

Yeah, a project is a project.

Starting sanding the back by hand and I noticed I'm spoiled by the hand sanders at work anyway, it looks very nice, I only did the back, I will start on the sides today.

I was looking for a cheap router to re-route the binding slots, but had no luck, I wonder if I can sneak it into work and route it there...?

I'm still looking for a neck quote, so any work on the neck will be left at the end pending a new neck.

Heres what I plan to do to it

a>

Also, my ebay addiction won me this

http://i20.ebayimg.com/05/i/000/77/75/4e64_1_b.JPG

http://i5.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/77/75/504b_1.JPG

http://i15.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/77/75/4fd4_1.JPG

http://i13.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/77/75/4f3e_1.JPG

I;ve been looking at those pics and I;d like to know what on earth is wrong with it? nothing that really needs restoring in my eyes, if you want to refinish it go ahead but redoing that binding is no fun

If you look at the pics I posted closely, you will see it has alot of dings, scratches, fish eyes and holes. So I want to fille those in and give it a new paint job.

Binding isn't hard to apply, I do that for a living

now taking it off is the hard part, since I don't have any routers at home.

Don't let 'em put you off, Sabu2k1 - quite a few of those 80s/early 90s Korean el-cheapos were very nicely made.Their major flaws were usually the appointments, especially the rubbish hardware, like the cast zinc tune-o-matic copies and those wretched machine heads, and the pickups, which almost always left a bit to be desired. I've got an old friend who still plays his Memphis bolt-on SG for bar gigs - it's a beater, but it has a Leo Quan bridge, SD pickups, Schaller keys and a Graphtec nut, and it plays in tune and sounds great. For the couple of hundred bucks he's got invested, it'll smoke any new Epi for twice the price! I say go for it!!

Thanks man

I will try my best to revive it

I've been playing it with 2 strings and I really like the feel, lol

they really are misjudged because they are copies, but this one just feels like butter, thick creamy butter

Im looking for a shop that can make me a neck to my specs, and how to remove the old binding from the body too.

hahaha

I'm letting my facial hair grow, but it won't ever be like Zakk's

Heres some new pics, I basically took off some parts I don't want and just cleaned the guitar (neck, body, back)

it was really dirty and had alot of junk on the fretboard.

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/3747/gvdcerer4ca7.jpg

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/4896/gvdcerer3gj9.jpg

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/6193/gvdcerer1cv6.jpg

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/593/gvdcererha9.jpg

I am still waiting for a neck quote since the current neck is rosewood ,

You never heard of Memphis guitars?

me either, lol

but this LP looks very well built, no cracks or broken parts, and its very old too

I found cobwebs under the pickups and years of dust too, how? I don't know

I don't want to call this guitar a diamond or polish it into one and I also don't call it a POS because it actually plays better than I thought it would, I just want to restore it a bit as I am a guitar player and not some collector, I don't mind that it has a bolt on neck because, well, you can't change a broken Gibson neck can you? I prefer bolt on anyway for the long run.

I will be pickip parts up little by little and working on sanding the body, also looking on how to remove the old binding,

Thanks for the feedback guys

If it were me, I'd just build a new one. That guitar doesn't look like its worth putting all that time into it.

Yeah, I know it kinda looks bad right now, but then again we all shot down DiezelMonster's idea and look how that came out.

I don't have a shop or work area to build a guitar, so I can only attempt to restore this one in the space I ahve to work in

EDIT: I just sturng it up (only had 2 bridge nuts, lol) and it sounds wonderful if you like that classy, glass warm tone, I like more bite, but it will work for now

Cool

reminds me of a Johnson Guitar

Hey board

I got this memphis LP from what looks like a loong time ago, lol

its a direct Gibson copy, and has seen better days, here some pics

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v681/ZOMB13/memphisLP.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v681/ZOMB13/memphisLP1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v681/ZOMB13/memphisLP2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v681/ZOMB13/memphisLP5.jpg

Anyway, I want to fully restore it, as in, new paint, parts, filled holes and dings, new binding and possible even a new neck, but for now, I gotta use the old one (I wanted a maple neck with black binding all over, black square inlays and white gibson style headstock, lol)

I have planned to paint the guitar white and add black binding to it, black parts, and white EMG pickups, but first I gotta fill the many dings in the body and take off the old binding, does anyone have any suggestions?

Trades?

I got a pink dimarzio clip lock strap

a home made black clip lock strap

various knobs and switch tips

various Les Paul parts

lol

When will you have new pics?

Wow

you totally owned everyone who shot this project down (including me)

I'm sorry that I went all negative on the situation

It just looked like a BAD project cause I thought maybe it would not work

but WOW

I am glad it worked out

more pics man, please

EMG for sell?

no money orders?

i cant get it to work, all I get is static, and when I hit a string or even touch anything, i act like a killswitch, heres how I wired it.

Ok

it tried this diagram

and nothing, now I dindt even get static...

I wired the two blacks together and a white one to ground and the other white one to the middle slug on the pot, still nothing

Thanks guys

lovekraft sent me a wiring i will try out tomorrow, I hope it works, I will keep you guys posted

Thanks for the reply, I have that diagram too.

Im having trouble wiring the red plastic set of wires to the pick up, I had previously wired the red cable to the white one, white one to the white one, and the bare to the black, but all I got was static when I plugged it in.

The pickups came with the guitar, so they are cheapo Ibanez's.

I got this ibanez from a friend, and the pickups were torn out ,all wiring ripped, does anyone know how to wire it for only 1 humbucker and 1 volume? (no switches or tone)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v681/ZOMB13/wiwring13.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v681/ZOMB13/wiwring12.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v681/ZOMB13/wiwring11.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v681/ZOMB13/wiwring1.jpg

As you can see from the pics. the humbucker has 4 cables (1 white, 2 black soldered together, 1 white)