Anybody into customising Guitars!

dimerocks

I figure it would be nice for people to put up pictures of guitars they have customised themselfs beit changed the picks,electronics but especially if anyone has gone to the trouble to put a pretty nice design onto the guitar.I have planned on doing some thing like Zakk Wyldes bottlecap thing to a guitar for a while but im too scared to injure any of mine even.SO fire up some picks!!

Karl Hungus

Well, aside from changing the pickups on one of my gutiars, nothing yet. However, I do have a project guitar that I plan on modifying immensly. Unfortunatly, I haven't done anything with that yet. I will however, post pics once I begin.

-=al=-

Heres a strat i done up, most of it, if not all was customised at home using crappy equipment, i.e penknifes! to scrap the brand name of the headstock, put mine on it, i had to cut a hole in the bridge pickup to fit a humbucker from an old SG i had, i used 2 single coil EMG's i found in my friends house, i drew on the scratch plate, trussrod cover and ive malmsteens autograph on the headstock, oh and scalloped 12 frets usin some old files.................. It turned out great!



heres some mroe pics....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/-=Slash=-/customal1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/-=Slash=-/customal4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/-=Slash=-/customal5.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/-=Slash=-/malmsteenheadstock.jpg

Karl Hungus

That's fairly nice Al. How do you find the scalloped fretboard? Much of a help at all? Couldn't really see that much use for them personally, but I'm curious anyway.

Eoin Madsen

I just modded my bass' (well, it's my brother's actually) electronics for split pickup outputs and a push/pull pot to switch the pickups into series. I didn't think to take a picture, alas. And from the outside it looks exactly the same. I put in some Seymour Duncan Hot Stacks about a year ago. And also changed the grounding to a star-wiring pattern a month or two ago to try and reduce the buzzing (it was 50% successful - tbh, I think the problem is the earth in my home).

Not big into stickers (eh... except the "Guitarists Lick Better" and "Perfection is a state of mind" I put on my Mex Strat long ago :rolleyes:). The bass used to have quite a few but there's only a Whipping Boy sticker left. I'm going to see if I can exert some pressure on my Bro to have it removed.

Karl Hungus

Yeah, I've got a split coil pull/push setup in my Virgin aswell. Used to have lots of ****ty stickers on it too, but I've since gotten rid of all of them, except an Opeth sticker, which should be there untill the day I die!

-=al=-

yea its cool i like it alot, it makes it more fun to play, didnt take long to get used to, and id really consider gettin on other guitars, its cool, u have to play a bit cleaner but u get used to it, if anything it helps, i was just bored one day and started to do it, but it came out nice in the end

Kenny_D

Some of you may know the dublin based acoustic duo called Anima ( www.animalive.com ). Well this is Cillian Fosters guitar

Karl Hungus

Whoah, that's mad!

Anyway, there's been discussion of customizing my Virgin further. For now I want to relocate one of the strap buttons to balance it more, as it is rather neck-heavy, and since picking up an Ibanez, it's started to annoy me.

dimerocks

thats one savage guitar!!

Kenny_D

Yeah I know. The other half of the duo, anthony furey has something similar done to his guitar I think. I'll try and get a pic from him soon and put it up

daram

This is my strat. Didn't do anything too drastic to it (i.e. didn't touch the wood). Basically, i broke a tonepot and while buying a new one online, got a little carried away. I added a new scratchplate, pickups, covers for everything, all new pots and... not much else I dont think.

I've also attached what it use to look like.

daram

I'm sincerely gutted by the fact that no-one complimented my guitar.

(She's very self concious you know, took hours of convincing before she'd let me post pictures of her on the web )

cornbb

she's very nice. is it cream or white? strats can look horrific sometimes but thats decent.

daram

she thanks you.
cream with a wine-ish tortoise shell pickguard.

John

You couldn't just put up a picture of you playing it, you had to go all out with the Bonnie Raitt pic

daram

Well I didnt have any pictures of the signature on the back like al and his malsteem one, so it was the next best thing...

John

I've a picture of Dabhoys playing my guitar, maybe I should post that lol

daram

is it your old bass? the one that you drew on the scratch plate of? those drawings were sweet.

John

No, it's the epi les paul I bought off him. I sold that bass, should be a picture of the scratchplate around here somewhere.