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. buy a blank replacement pickguard in SSS style for your guitar. It's possible a regular Fender/Squier Strat pickguard will fit seamlessly. If...

. I see you found the trick for lowering the dual-ceramic pickups practically flush with the pickguard. That's what I do too. The tone can change...

. The Tele's greatest loved pickup is the single coil bridge. A Strat's greatest loved pickup is the single coil neck. A big part of a Baja...

. Ventura neck radius of 7.25in would keep me away. Get the Player and worst case if you need it darker you can swap Pots 'n Caps. They control...

All the forums before the SS was released were full of players hating 7.25in vintage guitars. They put up with them because they didn't want to...

. Armstrong Blender mod. No new parts, wiring change only, allows spinning a classic SSS Strat to HSH. Plus up at HSH the 2/4 options give out of...

. Keep the Yamaha, upgrade the Pots 'n Caps/switch/jack, keep the stock pickups, adjust pickup height and bass/treble tip. Get a Fuzz pedal and...

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. Just a note for when you get done with the finish... A relic is about performance and comfort. So make sure to do a downtown job on the...

. Keep the guitars out of site out of mind. Disguised nanny cams. And something like this: [MEDIA] .

. If you swap the neck and middle pickups, either physically in the pickguard or soldering at the switch, you can get a Tele 3-way...

. Pau Ferro is usually used for the fretboard. With careful resawing you could get two fretboards out of that blank. Then use maple for the...

. Pickguard screw hole pattern looks like Squier. The plastic bobbins could be some of the old MIM alnico pickups, used in between models with...

. The cheapening of the designs are not to extract more profit from the consumer but to compete against alternative brands. When brand B puts a...

. Most guitar brands target 7-8lbs for a guitar. That's where most of the forum surveys end up too. Heavier than that and 'boat anchor' is the...

. These are the steps: -Adjust pickup heights, bass/treble tip, (and screw poles on humbuckers) -Measure and swap Pots 'n Caps. They control the...

. DeOxit has silicone in it for lubricant. CRC may or may not have a residual lubricant. If it has the lubricant then you're all ok and the forum...

Things that vibrate at resonance take very little energy input to get them moving. But that is always one frequency, true resonance will happen...

. Most of us have been inoculated against a majority of the diseases from two hundred years ago, so you'd mostly be fine. However, you could very...

. Guitars are not an investment but they do hold resale value. If you stick to a few 'rules': -Buy used for a fair price -Buy brands common...

. The low-risk mod: take off the strings, unscrew the pickguard, unscrew the neck and middle pickups and swap them in the pickguard. Screw the...

. I have both an Epiphone SG and a vintage Kalamazoo Gibson SG. The Epiphone gets all the play time, 'Clipped ear' style headstock G-400. The...

My Epiphones get played a lot more than the Gibsons in the fleet too. You can swap pickups plus pots 'n caps from the Epiphone to the Gibson and...

. Swap necks. Don't worry about one neck being 'brighter/darker sounding', that is all taken care of by your Pots 'n Caps. If too bright/dark...

. Get a second pickguard for your Strat, load it up with a set of Tele pickups and controls. Make sure to move the pots back so the volume knob...