...I don't suppose this would be the ideal guitar for very many people here, but it might interest one or two.

This is a YouTube video about an old 1960s Fender acoustic that suffered some traumatic injuries, but survived, and was later remodelled into something a little bit different...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPla_2-xxws

Hi jack.plugg, welcome to the Forum. Great first post!

That is my idea of guitar modding. Let's take things a little further than worrying about whether we like black knobs on a white pickguard - or whatever.

Neat!

Cheers - C

Great vid. Welcome to the forum..... Mike

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Welcome to the Forum! Cool rescue of a guitar!

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

that is indeed the coolest guitar i've seen in a long long time... great job dude!! man, would you build me one? o teach me

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Congratulations on one very snazzy looking and sounding guitar.
I have an idea should you ever make another. Is there some way you could use the neck pickup's surround and the original soundhole so that you can angle the neck pickup should you wish? Kind of like a free floating pickup that you can adjust on the fly.

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Who cares if it's not for everybody, it is an amazing transformation of a guitar body that looked like it was destined for the wood burner.

Excellent workmanship, looks, and practicality. Very, very cool.

Welcome to the forum and I have to agree...very cool rescue and mod there! I have to agree with Ceri...some folks seem to think that a "mod" just means changing the color of the knobs or pickguard...it's really nice to see someone around here with some real "vision".

I don't know if the OP was the owner of this unique instrument but if so (or should the owner happen to view this thread), I would -LOVE- to hear some slide blues thru that puppy! I bet it would be truly wicked!!! I'm also curious...at one point it looks like it had a humbucker over the sound hole...just wondering why there was a change to a single coil there instead?

Jaguar, Tele and Strat parts on a Fender acoustic...truly a "universal" Fender. Kind of reminds me of a guy down the street I used to know who was seriously in to motorcycles...he went outside to clean his garage one day and started looking at all of the miscellaneous parts he had laying around and decided to sit down a build a bike from them...ended up with a Harley hardtail frame, Honda 750 engine, Kawasaki forks...all kinds of stuff. Ended up being a truly beautiful and one of a kind bike (although I have no idea HOW he titled that sucker! LOL!).

Anyways, yea...that one is going to stay in the back of my head for future mods of my own. Some wonderful inspiration there! Thanks for sharing!

Peace,
Jim

...thank you for your kind words of welcome, and glad you liked the guitar.

The guitar was put together about two and a half years ago and has seen almost daily service ever since. It gets played around the house a lot, (working out stuff, rehearsing songs, etc), and now and then I take it out on gigs. In fact it actually did three gigs last week, with a lot of freezing cold travelling involved, and it was great, but most of the time I usually use an Esqure or a Telecaster for playing live.

The guitar is very easy to play, with a low action and a slim neck, and is also very lightweight, at 6 1/4 lbs. It is mostly hollow, but is solid from the bridge to the end pin, and it also has some big strengthening braces. It isn't at all prone to feedback.

I had the idea for this sort of guitar before I actually got the battered and broken body, but as soon as I saw it I knew that it would be right for the job. The neck came along a few months later.

One drawback to using the Newporter neck is that it is pretty narrow up at the higher frets, and the Telecaster bridge kind of wants to push the strings right to the edge of the fingerboard. Hence the grooved saddles, to try and keep the strings in place. Works OK.

Yes, I did have a Gibson mini humbucker in the neck position for a while but I put the Strat pickup in because I like Strat neck pickups, plus I wanted it to look like a Fender guitar as much as possible, (the Fender guitar that Fender didn't know about - till now!)

The neck pickup disc is easy to swap out, and I still have the mini humbucker sitting in a drawer, still mounted on its own disc, so I could put it back easily if I wanted. I did think about having half a dozen discs, all with different types of pickup mounted in them, but I never got around to it. It works fine the way it is.

I hadn't thought of actually having a rotating disc, but it would be no trouble to mount the pickup disc at different angles.

Although it is a fun guitar to have, I won't be duplicating it, and I don't think I could tell anyone else how to go about doing it as it was all very much trial and error, a real case of "...let's see if this works or not..." Mostly it worked.

As for slide guitar, I'm sure the guitar could handle it fine, and there'd be tones a-plenty. Who knows, maybe one day.

Anyway, your interest in the guitar is very much appreciated, and thanks again for the warm welcome.

Happy Christmas to all.