Guthrie Govan Discussion

[frankus]

Ho hum, it appears I've reached my marital capacity of guitars

So I'm tinkering with the idea of expanding the range of my existing guitars.

With the RG470, I'm toying with fitting push-pull pots in it, so I can toggle phase and coil taps.

With the Strat, I'm looking at replacing the bridge pickup with a tele pickup .. does anyone know if a tele pickup will fit in a 2k strat body? Also I was thinking of putting a ghost piezo system in it. Also I liked the varitone so I'm not so seriously looking at replacing the 2nd tone knob with a varitone and wiring the bridge pickup back into the tone control. Also I'm toying with moving the strap knob from the upper horn to one of the screws that connects the neck to the body.

With the 335 alike I'm looking at putting a varitone in it, but frankly I think it'll mar the looks.

Part of me has toyed with putting the varitone in an enclosure and getting some clips so I can put it on the guitar strap so I cna use it with all the instruments.. but I remember scornfully laughing at Crowded house when they did something similar

It seems really perverse that the guitar that'll get the most modding is already the most versatile and the one with the least external change will be the RG which is meant to resemble the cockpit of a tie fighter anyway and the one with the most telling external change will be the 335 taking a traditional mod

Anyone got any opinions on all this?
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[dave...]

I've just been getting into guitar modding and building acutally. My opinion, for what it's worth, (little) is that not much can go wrong circuit-wise (except on the semi 335) because guitar circuits are so damn simple and easy to undo if you get it wrong. The results can often be fantastic as well.

As for cosmetic damage, and this is contentious, but presumably if you are a professional you bought a guitar to do a job, not to look nice. If installing something makes it fulfil its musical purpose better, then should looks be a deciding factor?

then again i've never spent £2000 on a guitar
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[RobertH]

My ESP Mirage Custom went from this


to this




I stripped it by hand, stained it, reworked the standard strat pick guard and had to route a hole for the pickup switch. The hand print is my 4year old daughters (she looked at me like I was crazy when I painted the palm of her hand and pressed it onto the guitar )

[frankus]

That's excellent workmanship. Were you always planning to strip it back to wood or was it a surprise to find a nice wood pattern underneath?


My problem is that I lack the time to do this stuff and the space to set aside as a workshop. I'm rapidly reaching the conclusion that I can't be doing with modding as it causes too much tension at home.. as does buying new kit, but hey.. waddaya do?

After I've housed the varitone and the A/B switch, finished the mooger fooger .. that's it for me.. the rest goes to shops.
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Fabulous powers were revealed to me the day I held my magic Suhr(d) aloft and said "by the power of great scale!"

I have the power!

[RobertH]

[thelordofcheesecake]

I must say Robert, that looks like a great project and from those pics you certainly nailed a decent look.

[RobertH]