I'm going to throw a strat pickup in my Les Paul jr. What are your guitar mods

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I LIKE PIE!!!!!

IF I DO SOMETHING STUPID,DON'T SAY A WORD...

On my Telecaster (1995 MIM Tele Special):
I put a P90 pickup in the neck position.
Changed it to 4-way Tele switching (best Tele mod in the world ever).
Put on a "No-Load" tone potentiometer.
Replaced neck plate with one etched with my band's logo.
Schaller strap lock buttons.

On my Stratocaster (US '62 Reissue Stratocaster):
I changed the pickguard from 3-ply white to 3-ply aged white mother-of-pearl (and changed the knobs and pickup covers to aged white as well).
Blocked the tremolo with a small stack of quarters (increased sustain & tuning stability).
Attached a badge that says "CUSTOM" on the "ashtray" bridge plate.
Replaced the stock pickups with Pete Biltoft Vintage Vibe SP90 pickup set (sounds like a P90 in the size of a Strat pickup).
Replaced the center tone knob with a push/pull potentiometer that turns on the bridge pickup no matter where the 5-way selector switch is set (gives me 7 switching options, including neck+bridge and neck+middle+bridge, not normally capable on a Strat)
Had a friend make me a vinyl label of my signature, and placed it on the back of the headstock.
Replaced neck plate with one etched with my band's logo.
Schaller strap lock buttons.

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Good Vibes To Y'all!



Screamin' Armadillos
Texas Roadhouse Music
Guitar/Slide Guitar/Harp/Vocals

any Tele I have will be hooked up with Kinman Broadcasters. I couldnt imagine a Tele without them unless is was a 50's model with the original pups.

any humbucker guitar I have will be hooked up with Vintage Guild HB-1's.

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Blues with a feeling.

GUILD GUITARS: MADE TO BE PLAYED!

Notoriously dull, here.

AVRI pups on an MIJ Jazzmaster (which worked great)

Minor cosmetics (chrome pup covers, good knobs, truss rod cover) on an SG Faded.

MIA Jazz Bass knobs on an MIM Fretless Jazz Bass.

MIA Precision Bass knobs on an MIM Precision.

I ain't tellin'...but...here's 10 ways to trick out yer Strats :

http://www.premierguitar.com/magazine/i ... _Tone.aspx

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Being able to play and enjoy music is a gift that's often taken for granted.

Don't leave home without it!

Biggest mod I've done to my guitar...



...New strings. That's its
I like it as is, and I want to keep it the same as the day I bought it.

Pretty boring here also...

My Tele I swapped the tone Cap for a Russian Paper in Oil.

My Strat I had the bridge pickup wired to the tone control and the middle pickup runs wide open with no tone control. That's it.

Oh, and I fitted Schaller straplocks.

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MIM Std Tele, MIM HSS Strat, Homemade Mongrel Tele, Blues Jr, Champ600, coupla pedals...sweeeet!

none.... why would i buy a guitar if it doesnt have what i want in it?

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Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

None... If I actually knew how I might have some, but I'm clueless so I might as well not ruin my guitar.

Most here seem to be "Born to be mild" on the mods it would seem.

Well my latest victim.....I mean project is a 2010 mim that was a H-S-S.

Well so fay I have replaced the neck plate with a custom made one, replaced the picks with Fender custom shop units (It is now a S-S-S), replaced the tremolo with a GFS brass blocked one using five springs with it set to be grounded to the body.
The capacitor has been replaced with a Russian made paper and oil and the pick guard in the Fender made gold anodized aluminum guard.
I added strap locks as well and I am now used the Optima Gold plated strings.

In other words, about par for the course for me.

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Marriage is like playing cards...

At first all you want are Hearts and Diamonds.

But in the end, all you really want is a Club and a Spade.

ibanez sas bg - slapped a hot rails pup in da neck position

squier strat - vintage tonerider pups, individual switches for each pup, vintage fender bridge, black machine heads, american jumbo frets, pick guard, etc... the only thing i havnt replaced is the wood...

and im leaving my kenny wayne shepard mim strat alone...

(i do all mods my self)

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blues - its a religion...

Squier Classic Vibe 50s Telecaster

1. Replaced Pots, Switch and Jack with a Toneshaper with the 4 way switch.
http://www.toneshapers.com/ToneShaper-f ... 1C325.aspx


2. Added Schaller strap locks

3. Replaced stock pickguard with Warmoth satin black pickguard

4. Replaced jack cup with a Rutterscup (similar to Electrosocket)
http://ruttersguitars.com/Hot_Rod_Parts.html

5. Replaced stock knobs with Callaham nickle dome knobs.
http://www.acmeguitarworks.com/Callaham ... 5C210.aspx

6. Rutters compensated brass saddles
http://ruttersguitars.com/Hot_Rod_Parts.html

I will probably swap the pickups next, most likely with Nocasters...

I know what some are going to say, I have more into it than it is worth.
Maybe so but I would do it all again, this guitar is a joy to play...

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Bob

Fender CD280S NAT, Recording King RO-127
Squier Classic Vibe 50s Telecaster BSB
American Special/Highway One Telecaster hybrid Partscaster
Fender 60th Anv Am Std Telecaster, Natural/Rosewood
http://community.webshots.com/user/rjstaaf

My Highway 1:
Fender/Schaller locking tuners
White pearloid pickguard
Black plastic knobs and trem tip
Black trem cavity plate
"F" neck plate
Dimarzio SD humbucker in the bridge

American Special:
Fender/Schaller locking tuners
Black plastic knobs and trem tip

Blacktop:
Fender/Schaller locking tuners
Possible future mod--steel trem block?
Nothing more to this one--it just doesn't need it

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RK

2007 Fender Highway 1
2012 American Deluxe
2015 MIM Dave Murray HHH
2010 Fender Blacktop
1987 Fender Avalon Acoustic
2012 Marshall DSL 15 watt head

Blender volume control for the neck pickup.
Perfect mod; Not physicaly invasive, costs about the price of 2" of wire, can be done in under 10 minutes, gives 2 extra sounds and doesn't rob the guitar of the sounds it already has on modern Fender wiring.

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No no and no

I mod my guitars by using different amps as well as the traditional mods.