Melody Maker Special (FINAL PG 4 PHOTOS)

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:44 am

endsjustifymeans wrote:
Mo Rawka wrote:i say go for a trem of some kind, along the lines of a vibrola, like on the old school ones
LANK
yesssssssssssssssss

Nooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!! your guitar will never stay in tune with one of them, had one on an old guitar, fuckin nightmare

More Cowbell · Post by **More Cowbell** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 1:35 am

WOW! Great project rob. Will need full list of parts and lanks when finished so I can copy you.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 5:04 am

UPDATE!!!!

i trimmed up the pickguard up by the neck in such a way to minimize mr. volume hole. the tone knob will become the volume knob and i will run 1VOL 1TOGGLEY.

i made some new holes on the guitar!!!! not on purpose.

PROTIP: SG's aren't very thick. i put some foam under the single coils and screwed them directly into the body of the guitar for shits and giggles and low and behold the neck pickup screws went right thru the back of the guitar. if this was a serious SG i would be gutted but fuck it, it was less than 100 bucks. ill just dremmul off the ends of the screws later and try not to get tetnus.

here is the diagram im going to use to wire up this bitch. replace hums with singles in YOUR MIND and it will make sense

NOW FOR NEW PHOTOS!!!!

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 5:06 am

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 5:08 am

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THE FUCKING UPLOADER NOW?????

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 5:08 am

robroe wrote:PROTIP: SG's aren't very thick. i put some foam under the single coils and screwed them directly into the body of the guitar for shits and giggles and low and behold the neck pickup screws went right thru the back of the guitar. if this was a serious SG i would be gutted but fuck it, it was less than 100 bucks. ill just dremmul off the ends of the screws later and try not to get tetnus.

I suppose you could mount the pickups backwards now, so that there's no holes on the pickguard like on a Danelectro. No real advantage to doing this, it'd hardly look any better for it, and you'd need to get a new guard cut. The advantage is that you could tell people you'd done it on purpose, I suppose.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 5:11 am

that might work !

ill try it out tomorrow.

my photos are still broked ?

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 5:13 am

http://bestnetworx.com/uploader/files/56/100_0627.JPG
http://bestnetworx.com/uploader/files/56/100_0628.JPG
http://bestnetworx.com/uploader/files/56/100_0629.JPG

try without tags? fuck ?

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 5:15 am

the second link just comes up a white screen ????FUCKING HELL

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 5:16 am

Those photos were up about five minutes ago, I saw them.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 5:49 am

what the fuck?

im goign to bed. fuck it

omari · Post by **omari** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:01 am

great project, i'm inspired! this trem would be boss, it takes the place of the stop tailpiece.

Zack · Post by **Zack** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:54 pm

yeah, those les-trems look pretty sweet. I've always been curious how they play. I'm tempted, but the price is hefty and I'd much rather have a trem arm ala the maestro vibrola.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 8:18 pm

Goots. wrote:yeah, those les-trems look pretty sweet. I've always been curious how they play. I'm tempted, but the price is hefty

exactly. they're pricey. and I wonder how good they would stay fixed when you're not using them.

Zack · Post by **Zack** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 8:49 pm

They were used on reverend guitars for a while, so I guess usable enough to be marketable. I've read some threads about them and most users seem to say that they've got a bigsby feel to 'em. It's nice to think you wouldn't have to drill any holes into yr guitar but for the price one might as well man-up.

Freedom guitar is making a trem-adapter called the bowen handle which looks similar to the les-trem at a 1/3 of the price. Schaller has a similar style tremolo too, it mounts to the bridge rather than the stop bar. Again, have no clue how these play and who knows if robroe even wants to put these on this guitar. I mean, it's already really awesome right now.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 8:52 pm

yea, but I want to put it on my guitar.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:24 am

FINAL. ITS DONE!!!!! IT MAKES SONDZ!!!! STRUNG UP. MIGHT MAKE A VIDEO SUNDAY MORNING. TAKING SONG REQUESTS FOR DEMOOOOO

WHEN ALL WAS SAID AND DONE I WENT FOR A COMBO OF 2 GUITARS

AND MY DUO SONIC

FUCKING LOVE THIS THING.

GRAND TOTAL FOR GUITAR 135 BUCKS

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:26 am

i gotta dig out the duo in the morning and have matching sg/duo photoz.

everyone should do this mod. the starting guitar is cheap as fuck and the necks/frets on them are really nice compared to 100 dollar squier bullshit

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:32 am

robroe wrote:TAKING SONG REQUESTS FOR DEMOOOOO

Battery - Metallica

BTW... I'm totally doing this mod now. Great work.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:42 am

it would take any normal human being that isn't a manager in the throws of the christmas season about 1-2 hours to re-make this guitar. it took me from october to january.........the thing was here for broefest right? im pretty sure i had it here for sloan to fuck with