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mikel
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SG remake

Post by mikel » Thu Nov 25, 2010 9:53 pm

I made this:

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To this:

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I like it alot!

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Re: SG remake

Post by indianDYsummer » Thu Nov 25, 2010 10:09 pm

What do your 4 knobs do?
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Re: SG remake

Post by jason41224 » Thu Nov 25, 2010 10:55 pm

that's awesome! what model was it? a Gibson Special?
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Re: SG remake

Post by indianDYsummer » Thu Nov 25, 2010 10:59 pm

It looks pretty good, but I think you should get a humbucker cover for your pickup. I think it'll class it up a lot!
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Re: SG remake

Post by Randy Bass » Fri Nov 26, 2010 12:14 am

Beautiful work. Did you get that pickup from WD Music? It looks like one of the Kent Armstrong Filtertron models.
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Re: SG remake

Post by bclaire » Fri Nov 26, 2010 12:23 am

Nice- looks awesome.

What about putting in a 'stealth' pickup in the route and wiring it in? Would maintain that look as well as maybe a cool sound!

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Re: SG remake

Post by Y0UNGBL00D » Fri Nov 26, 2010 10:27 am

Rad
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Re: SG remake

Post by mikel » Fri Nov 26, 2010 12:55 pm

jason41224 wrote:that's awesome! what model was it? a Gibson Special?
Yes its a special.
indianDYsummer wrote:What do your 4 knobs do?
Since it had two humbuckers I´m not sure how I´m gonna do about the knobs. Right now I only use volume and tone for bridge pickup and the switch for muting.
Randy Bass wrote:Beautiful work. Did you get that pickup from WD Music? It looks like one of the Kent Armstrong Filtertron models.
It´s a TV Jones filtertron so you almost got it. It´s the only humbucker that I have tried so for that works for me. Bought it directly from TV Jones.
bclaire wrote:Nice- looks awesome.

What about putting in a 'stealth' pickup in the route and wiring it in? Would maintain that look as well as maybe a cool sound!
Whats a stealth pickup?
Y0UNGBL00D wrote:Rad
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Re: SG remake

Post by bclaire » Fri Nov 26, 2010 2:49 pm

Stealth pickup would be adding a humbucker UNDER the pickguard with no cutout in the neck position!

like this Fender Esquire:
http://www.guitarsale.com/node.aspx?ID=21" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Re: SG remake

Post by mikel » Fri Nov 26, 2010 4:00 pm

bclaire wrote:Stealth pickup would be adding a humbucker UNDER the pickguard with no cutout in the neck position!

like this Fender Esquire:
http://www.guitarsale.com/node.aspx?ID=21" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
That would be really sweet. I should consider.

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Re: SG remake

Post by myboss57 » Sun Nov 28, 2010 10:24 pm

Dude, I really really like that mod! I've been thinking of doing something very similar to my SG since I never use the neck pup. I was planning on removing all of the knobs and the pup selector switch, and keeping the one volume knob for the bridge pup, but moving it up to where the neck pup volume knob is so that it's closer to where I'm strumming.
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Re: SG remake

Post by mikel » Mon Nov 29, 2010 4:04 pm

myboss57 wrote:Dude, I really really like that mod! I've been thinking of doing something very similar to my SG since I never use the neck pup. I was planning on removing all of the knobs and the pup selector switch, and keeping the one volume knob for the bridge pup, but moving it up to where the neck pup volume knob is so that it's closer to where I'm strumming.
Yeah, I´m thinking of removing all the other knobs and just have 1 volume and switch for muting. Should I just leave the holes open or should i plug them?

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Re: SG remake

Post by myboss57 » Mon Nov 29, 2010 4:07 pm

mikel wrote:Yeah, I´m thinking of removing all the other knobs and just have 1 volume and switch for muting. Should I just leave the holes open or should i plug them?
I don't know. I'm interested to see how it looks with the remaining knobs removed, so please post pics when/if you do that. If it's not too strange looking, then I'd say it'd be good maybe to leave them available - if you ever want to revert it back or sell it as regular SG again.

My thoughts, when and if I do my similar mod, would be to leave the holes. But again, it may look weird with them there.
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