Hey guys, been awhile since I've posted. Decided to make one thread with several of the guitars I've modded or built over the past couple months.
This Strat I got in trade for some work I've been doing for a friend. I pulled the pickups I had put in it for him and loaded it with some GFS Gold Foils, and they're pretty rad! Very interesting EQ curve on them, I've been getting some neat sounds out of them. I also replaced the trem block with a solid steel one, it really helped with the sustain and overall bigger and better tone.
Here's my Gold Tele, GFS body and Strat neck pup. Voodoo 59 bridge pup, Wilkinson hardware. Nothing crazy, just a nice and solid Tele that does the Classic Rock thing with aplomb. It doesn't really twang, but gets more of a Jimmy Page type tone. I really like it.
Here's a Partscaster I got from the same buddy I got the Strat from, and was pretty nice when I got it. I changed the bridge and pups, ripped out the shielding, and rewired it to how I do things. It was nice the way it was, I just wanted it different. I'm using a GFS Slick lead pup, and a Lawrence MicroCoils neck pup. Another friend is buying it off me, which I'm happy about as I need the money and he wanted a good Tele. So there ya go.
Lastly is 3 Teles. L to R: My Thinline, which I've posted about before. Purple Tele I cut the body from alder, used a baseball bat neck I had laying around, and loaded it up with a Duncan Lil 59 and a DiMarzio 36th Anniversary in the neck. It kinda sounds like an SG, sort of. Pretty cool Rock guitar! And the "mother of toilet seat" is the newest one. And I'm SO happy with how it turned out. All Parts vintage neck, GFS body, GFS rail pup, 70's Gibson Mini in the neck, and Wilkinson hardware. I went weird with it and wired it up using a 5 way switching system drawn up by Bill Lawrence. It basically has the traditional Tele wiring on half of the switch, and the other part adds a cap to the neck pup to attenuate some bass and makes the combo position more "quacky" and allows more brightness with the solo'd neck pup. It's interesting and fun to play.
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