i've found a couple of pics from a few years ago - all from the old JS.com days.
i was wrong, it isn't a spazzmaster. here's a spazzmaster......
this was an experiment to see how quickly i could build a guitar from parts i had lying around. from memory the answer is under two hours. the body is made from a piece of wood with two bits of leftover kitchen worktop glued onto it. the shape was made by drawing round the top of a jag and the bottom of a duo II. jazz replacement trem. jagstang hum in bridge with some kind of mounting ring. i can't remember what the middle single coil is now (it's not in the spazzmaster anymore it's in the neck position of my squire venus) i think it was a jag replacement pickup of some kind. the neck pickup is a mini hum from an old (now destroyed) firebird copy. the neck is a left handed strat replacement neck upside down. it's unfinished. the electrics - each pickup has a three way mini toggle - on/off/phase. the cover for the electrics is made from the top of the drill bit box that contained the drill bits i used to make the guitar.
when i first built it it was tuned standard and used as my main guitar for a few months cos i was proud of it (the only change from this pic was that just after taking the pic i added two pieces of black electricians tape along the join lines between the worktop and the wood - they are still there - you can see them in the pic of the mess in the post above) after playing it like that for a couple of months i changed the strings and tuned it to CGDCBB and it's been like that ever since.
the black one may have acutally been unnamed.
i built this from a piece of alder. black plasticote. jag plates. super distortion in the bridge. some kind of replacement LP style zebra hum in the neck in this photo, replaced soon after with a super II. neck is from the firebird copy, stripped and unfinished. switches are on/off for each pickup and a bass cut.
a little before i had made a switchcaster and used it for ages but it confused me too much. it was made from the blue MIM duo you see in that pic. it was pretty much like that but had a 25.5" rosewood neck instead of the 22.7" maple one in that pic. otherwise it was pretty much like that. it had lots of switches and two buttons. there were about 35 combinations of pickups available. it had a coil split for the hum. i could select each coil in the bridge hum (Jb jr) and out of phase or off. the neck single could be in or out of phase or off. each pickup had a bass cut, so i could have pickups or coils out of phase with a bass cut on one pup which meant i could have an out of phase sound, but retain bass tones. the two buttons were like kill switches but were scratchy so i removed them by the time of this pic.
after a while i chaged things a bit and built a complicated switching box slightly separate to the guitar for demonstration purposes. i wired it up so the neck pickup was wired direct to the sitch box. the switch box had lots of switches. it was set up with three different volume pots - 250, 500 and 1meg. the tone pot was switchable between 5 different cap values.
i recorded loads of sound samples so i could demonstrate the difference between vol pot values and cap values to show the difference these made - mainly to debunk myths that were prevalent on the forum at the time, but before i could post them all my HD died and i lost everything. i got pissed off and never bothered again. i still have the bits. if i have a spare month or two i may record them again, though i doubt i'll ever get round to it.
