Turd Polishing

[pedalman]

As if I have enough hobbys. I recently got into buying up Squiers and modding them. Lots of fun and very addictive. LOL now I got 3 on the bench. Anybody else into this ?

www.squier-talk.com

[snz728]

is the link for squire or squier?

[wolfingsworth]

My main guitar once was an affinity tele. So far the only original pieces are the screws and plates and the body which has undergone a major facelift. My other is a squier VM jazzmaster that I modded. It's fun to have a cheap platform that can become something usable in the end. How bout some pics!

[Willybomb]

I have guitars where the dimarzio and duncan pickups in them are worth more 2nd hand than what I paid for the guitars themselves...  Having said that, they play fantastically.  The Casino in particular has a thinner neck than my Kramer (which is pretty thin in itself).


Super Distortion, Humbucker From Hell.  Made from parts, Hohner neck.  Alsacorp green/blue rattlecan finish.


A Casino strat (very budget brand here in AU) that I holoflashed.  Has a ToneZone and Air Norton, formerly has 3x no name singles..

I haven't got a pick of the Kramer Striker, but it has a JB (bridge), Hot Rails(n, in the middle), and a Full Shred (bridge model, in the neck...) in it.

[juansolo]

The Table. Was an Ibanez NDM-1 (Noodles Sig, the one with gaffer tape) I got for peanuts (I had two of them). I loaned it to a friend and when it came back it looked a bit dog eared so I decided to strip the tape. That came off and it was stained with some danish oil. I could make such a better job of that now...

Pickups, it went through everything. In it's final incarnation there it has a pair of SD P-Rails. Rather good they were too. Vol and Tone push-pulls switched the modes from humbucking/P90/Rail/Series/Parallel. Middle pup was a Fender strat bridge pup from another guitar Individual toggles for each pup.

Oh and it had Sperzel tuners. In the end I sold for the price of the pups and the tuners. In the ad I said 'look, you're buying the hardware here... The guitar could be firewood if you liked'. The guy who bought it absolutely loved it (it wasn't shit and sounded better than it had any right to), he also got a PRS SE from me. Sold the PRS and as far as I'm aware, still has The Table.

Kinda cool to know that it still lives on despite my repeated butchery of it.

[juansolo]

Found pics of the other one. It'll give you an idea of what the one above looked like before it was butchered. This one didn't fare too well either, these are just a couple of incarnations of it:



It's metal phase. Single vol and a 3 way where the tone was. EMG 81/60 set (middle pup was just an empty cover). Also has Sperzels.



The beginnings of an idea that would eventually become the Stratele

I really did butcher these guitars on a regular basis. They have been replaced though with a new target for my hackery...

[juansolo]

...and here it is, the TVMaster:



It started life out as a GFS Xavier Telemasterish type thing. Bought by Andrew W of the BKP forum with the express intention of butchery.

He swapped the neck for a Fender item from a Classic 50's strat, getting decent tuners into that bargain and swapped the bridge for a fender item (that was cut down to go onto the Stratele), he made a bakelite esquire pickguard for it and it kind of stopped there. He then had another one built this time by Feline so sold the original. He was asking pretty much what the neck was worth so I bagged it.

Off came the bridge and GFS pup and a bigger hole was routed to take a TV Jones Powertron Plus and associated bridge. I also rewired it at this point to have esquire switching. It's pretty bloody good... But it's not right.

It still has the original ash body that is too heavy and not quite the right shape. So I'm having a new one made by WezV at some point. Which will be the last part of the original guitar gone! Maybe the control plate and strap buttons are original after that, I'm not sure. I'm also going to have a P90 in the neck position I think. Haven't decided yet.

None of the above guitars cost much more than £100

[Jean-Rock]

...and here it is, the TVMaster:

This is a really cool guit !