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free guitar
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:54 pm
by dezb1
Took a load of stuff from my mother-in-law’s house to the recycling centre yesterday and came back with a black Legend Stratocaster copy some guy was going to chuck out. It has a couple of small chips on the body but otherwise it’s all sound, the strings feel as if they’ve been on it for about 100 years (cheese wire) thought it might be a good project what mods do you suggest
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:14 pm
by dezb1
free guitar (a legend lst-x) and I’m intending on making it look something like the pic below build1 what do you think of the tortus shell guard, should I just go for a black guard?
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:25 pm
by Haze
should do an gilmour
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:35 pm
by dezb1
Haze wrote:should do an gilmour
rose wood neck spoils that idea
I thought i might do this
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 7:13 pm
by clarkbar
YES Vandalism Strat!! Do IT.
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:42 pm
by Ankhanu
clarkbar wrote:YES Vandalism Strat!! Do IT.
+1
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:04 pm
by ultratwin
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 10:46 pm
by dezb1
Just took this thing apart and someone has gone mad with the router. It’s just one massive rout from the neck pickup to the bridge; I ain’t never seen anything like it.
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 11:06 pm
by damienblair17
It's called a "swimming pool" route, or at least that's what I've heard it called. basically you can put any kind of pickup configuration in there.
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 11:09 pm
by dezb1
damienblair17 wrote:It's called a "swimming pool" route, or at least that's what I've heard it called. basically you can put any kind of pickup configuration in there.
So it’s not that unusual then, I’ve never had a guitar that’s been done like this before
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 11:20 pm
by dezb1
Just had a search through the old posts and found this:
http://www.shortscale.org/forum/viewtop ... mming+pool I don’t think I’d be to happy if I paid top dollar for a fender and found this under the plastic
Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 5:50 pm
by Skip
yep def a classic swimming pool
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:40 pm
by dezb1
The ‘Trashcaster’ so far, I’ve gone for the stealth look. It actually plays pretty well (for a Stratalike). Needs a better name and I need to work out how to do a decent decal for the head stock logo when said name is decided upon.
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 3:57 am
by endsjustifymeans
looks like a strat...
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 5:44 am
by Mages
...but wait! the knobs are upside down!
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 1:59 pm
by Gabriel
dezb1 wrote:free guitar (a legend lst-x) and I’m intending on making it look something like the pic below build1 what do you think of the tortus shell guard, should I just go for a black guard?
The strat i put together from parts looks kinda like that, except with cream pickup covers and knobs. I love that combination.
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 5:40 pm
by Dogma Hollow
Looks like a nice project piece. I was toying with the idea of buying a cheap Strat and dropping in a set of P-90s, just for something different. That swimming pool (or universal route, I've also heard it called) might be wide enough.
Probably would replace most of the hardware with black, if 'twere mine.
