Custom Guitar Shoppe Talk

my dream custom guitar would be a usa jackson RR1 with original floyd rose tremolo red with black custom flames and EMG 81 in the bridge and EMG 85 in the neck

Nice, I used to own one of those, good times. Neckthru body design?

yep the very same

Truly great. What's really getting to me is the prices. Going from a bolt on neck, to a NTB design raises most guitars price almost more then double, that really steams me.

especially on a custom jackson they are expensive as it is

and with the custom flame spray job they are not cheap to start with

A custom paint job won't make the guitar feel any better like a NTB design, those things are just wonderful.

Originally posted by guitar dude 69
yep the very same

I'de love to see a picture of your custom Jackson if you can put one up.

Ok, so my dream guitar is very close to perfection. Basically my plan is to get a lefty sonic blue Japanese reissue 69' Fender Mustang. I'm going to replace the bridge with a slightly modified version from warmouth which is better for heavy gauge strings. I'm then going to replace the bridge pickup with a Seymour duncan ST59-1 little 59 Telecaster pickup (a single size humbucker) but am at a loss as to what kind of single coil to replace the neck pickup with.
I play mostly surf and punk with occasional heavier stuff. Now noise is not an issue since Mustangs pickup selectors are basically two switches with three-way in/off/out positions so playing out of phase cancels noise. Any suggestions?

and just for the hell of it, my favorite guitars-
1. Fender Mustang
2. Fender Jaguar
3. Eastwood HiFlyer
4. Eastwood HiFlyer Baritone
5. Fender Jaguar Baritone
6. Gibson SG
7. Danilectro Electric 12-string
8. Fender Bass VI
9. Fender Jaguar Bass
10. Fender Jazzmaster

Originally posted by Darth Jello
Ok, so my dream guitar is very close to perfection. Basically my plan is to get a lefty sonic blue Japanese reissue 69' Fender Mustang. I'm going to replace the bridge with a slightly modified version from warmouth which is better for heavy gauge strings. I'm then going to replace the bridge pickup with a Seymour duncan ST59-1 little 59 Telecaster pickup (a single size humbucker) but am at a loss as to what kind of single coil to replace the neck pickup with.
I play mostly surf and punk with occasional heavier stuff. Now noise is not an issue since Mustangs pickup selectors are basically two switches with three-way in/off/out positions so playing out of phase cancels noise. Any suggestions?

and just for the hell of it, my favorite guitars-
1. Fender Mustang
2. Fender Jaguar
3. Eastwood HiFlyer
4. Eastwood HiFlyer Baritone
5. Fender Jaguar Baritone
6. Gibson SG
7. Danilectro Electric 12-string
8. Fender Bass VI
9. Fender Jaguar Bass
10. Fender Jazzmaster

Nice.

the schecters. wish i could combine them into my own perfect guitar

the acoustic

the bass (plus the blue piece of shit with a warped neck that i gave away)

It would be nice if it was possible to make a good "all-in-one" guitar. Like a stratocaster shaped semi-acoustic with tremolo and string lock (sorry for using bad English, I'm not very good at guitar terminology since I'm normally speaking Swedish 😛) A floating mini humbuker at the neck, single coil in the middle and a emg mike next to the bridge. separate volume controls.
Probably wouldn't work but it would be nice.

Originally posted by Schecter

the bass (plus the blue piece of shit with a warped neck that i gave away)

so what, you think you're better than me?

teeheevin

Originally posted by Schecter
so what, you think you're better than me?

I put this together over the winter, I got the plain wooden body off ebay and unfortunately I couldn't make it exactly like Eddie Van Halens because the bath size hole that had been routed out of the body meant I had to partially cover it with a scratchplate once I'd painted it. It's a warmoth neck and I put a Kramer logo on it to make it look more "official" and I treated myself to a Floyd Rose and as soon as I get bigger balls I'm gona rout out the neck to fit the locking nut. The pickups are standard strat ones I already had. It sounds great and is a lot of fun to play and it was great peeling off the masking tape once I'd painted it.

I'm ordering one but they quoted it at $8500... hmm... I'm gonna need to redesign, maybe drop the custom inlays and downgrade the wood a little... Custom guitars are so finicky.

Originally posted by amity75
I put this together over the winter, I got the plain wooden body off ebay and unfortunately I couldn't make it exactly like Eddie Van Halens because the bath size hole that had been routed out of the body meant I had to partially cover it with a scratchplate once I'd painted it. It's a warmoth neck and I put a Kramer logo on it to make it look more "official" and I treated myself to a Floyd Rose and as soon as I get bigger balls I'm gona rout out the neck to fit the locking nut. The pickups are standard strat ones I already had. It sounds great and is a lot of fun to play and it was great peeling off the masking tape once I'd painted it.

thats beautiful. did you see the new evh fender?

Originally posted by amity75
I put this together over the winter, I got the plain wooden body off ebay and unfortunately I couldn't make it exactly like Eddie Van Halens because the bath size hole that had been routed out of the body meant I had to partially cover it with a scratchplate once I'd painted it. It's a warmoth neck and I put a Kramer logo on it to make it look more "official" and I treated myself to a Floyd Rose and as soon as I get bigger balls I'm gona rout out the neck to fit the locking nut. The pickups are standard strat ones I already had. It sounds great and is a lot of fun to play and it was great peeling off the masking tape once I'd painted it.

Good job Amity.