All started the end of last year when I saw that giggsy was selling his Hamer (Slammer). I made an offer and didn't think anything else of it until I saw that a week or so ago it was still up for sale. So I reminded him that my offer still stood. A deal was made and I collected it. (hope you don't mind me linking to your pick giggsy?????)
I had discussed with guidopimp what I wanted to do with it and as long as the wood was straight and the frets were good, I'd take it. So getting it home and plugging it in, I realised that it needed some serious work.
(note, from my understanding the mods were done by the owner BEFORE giggsy)
Basically, the wiring was 100% shot, I knew that the pots were way too small and the pups didn't have much output, but as long as the body and neck were good, then I was happy.
So off to Guido's house I went and found out what was needed......
1) He rewired the whole guitar, he had it stripped to the bones on his dining room table and there were loads of tut tutting and saying WTF???
2) The pups that were in there were about 4200, I think one was about 4300. (Garbage, but we already knew that), he had a spare set that he loaned me from his box.
3) Selector switch was shot, guido raped his project for parts, what a man.......
4) Pots were swapped out and the wiring configuration changed to what I prefer.......
5) He adjusted the neck and still noticed that something wasn't right, but he went on.
6) Neck was shimmed about 2mm
He dropped her off yesterday and wow.............this is by far the nicest set up guitar that I've had. Action is super low, it's so easy to play and is probably about 100x better to play with than when i got it. The dude has some mad skills. He did say that the mass of wood behind the bridge is giving the bassy sound. I didn't really think of it until I compared it to my other guitars. So next upgrade is a pup swap.
The Plans?????
Well after selling the CMT last week, I'm going after the distressed look, just because it looks so damn fine......Body is going to be sanded down to wood, cause I'd like to know what's underneath, I suspect that it's basswood, looking inside the neck slot and the pick up cavity, I'm just glad that it's not ply. Guido reckons with a 500XL from Bill lawrence (to counter the bass sound that the guitar is giving) and I'm just waiting for a quote on one and will order that.
Basically like this, but I want to give it the very worn in look. Work will more than likely start in a week or so, the only real jobs that need to be done are the body sand down as well as the headstock sanding down. Just in case you were wondering about the Gary-san..............it's going to be in the Gibson script.........lol. Gary is my name by the way..................
White pick guard and a classic look will complete it.......Guido may make some comments and corrections to what I've said as he actually did all the work.
Thanks bud.......
