AprioriMark
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I've owned his for a dozen years or so and not played it much. I recently had a bone nut put on it and had it set up so it plays like butter. I'd like to find a different bridge solution as I really don't care for the un-attached wood. Even if there were an adjustable LP style piece that could sit on those bridge pins... I don't know I really haven't started looking. I mostly post this one because clearerphish sold me those pickups out of his semi-hollow PRS. He wanted 4 conductor SD pickups, and I thought of this guitar. I tried a few pickup combinations, but holllly heck do these sound amazing. I can't believe how perfect these pickups sound. It's like they were made just for this guitar. My wife keeps coming in to listen to me play this because the tone is so soothingly complex (she's an accomplished trombonist; graduated with a performance degree and plays in swing bands, so she appreciates tone).
This body has had several necks, and I've played it quite a lot over the years (in case you couldn't tell). It has a tapped JB humbucker in it, and the neck is birdseye/birdseye. The finish on that is a terrible job of a spray on poly, and I hope to remove it somehow and refinish it well. The other major issue is that the neck pocket holes are reamed out so that any neck that's put on it will "pop" out of alignment if tweaked remotely hard. I need to drill them out, dowel the holes and redrill it. I also need a r4 conversion nut since it's slotted for a locking nut and screw that noise!
This guitar is suuuuuper sweet. It's a Warmoth maple/ebony neck that is truly great, and the guitar is VERY loud and clear acoustically. TroubledTreble was kind enough to rewind the stacked Duncan humbucker in the neck position, and combined with that Dimarzio humbucker, I get some really wood-y, clear tones out of this pink monster. I'm going to sand back the face of the headstock, make a logo for it and finish it in a gloss poly. Oh, I also need to find something cool to fill that hole in the pickguard where the volume knob used to be. I freaking HATE volume knobs there. I'm considering a cheesy pink gem of some sort. I'm open to ideas! Maybe a push-button mid boost.
This is possibly my favorite guitar of all time. It was my first electric, and it's had 4 necks and 4 bridges on it. It's held together with wood screws, gorrilla snot, stickers, lots of coats of spray on poly, electrical tape, metal tape fro an airplane hanger, duct tape, and has been stained with lots of beer and a little vomit. That strap couldn't come off if I wanted it to. I did that on purpose because the singer in my band at the time kept jacking it for his guitar. That's a japanese Strat's neck single coil held in place by a custom electrical tape acoustically perfect shock mount. Oh yeah. The Dimarzio is tapped with the push-pull of the tone knob, and it gets wonderful tones. I intentionally put the high E string's locking tuner on crooked because it looked too clean. Oh yeah, I reshaped and refinished this neck. I could go on, but I'm sure you're laughing enough!
-Mark
