New equipment I have not modded, used equipment I have modded hardware and cosmetically and am looking forward to modding some electronic components in the future.

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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.

I've never bought a guitar with the idea of, "I'm gonna change the ____________ in this one and then I'll be happy."

However, after letting the instrument's personality and looks talk to me for a while, I will change the things that dissatisfy me (wouldn't it be nice to be able to do this with co-workers and significant others? ).

My Strat started life as a US Vintage '62 Stratocaster (now known as the '62 Reissue).

After initially keeping it bone-stock for a couple of years, I eventually:

-glued the plate that says “CUSTOM” on the bridge cover “ashtray”.I had no idea what it was from, until years later when I was sitting in a friend’s 1967 Pontiac. On the doors, near the handle, was a badge that proclaimed “CUSTOM”…mystery solved!

-Later, I replaced the stock white pickguard with an aged white mother-of-pearl pickguard, aged white pickup covers and an aged white control knobs/rear tremolo cavity cover/tremolo arm tip.

-A friend of mine ran a sign shop and had a machine that cut vinyl letters. He scanned in my autograph and made me a label for the back of the headstock Therefore, I had a “signature” Stratocaster…riiight.

-installed a push/pull potentiometer on the center tone knob. This made the “Bridge + Neck” and “Bridge + Middle + Neck” positions possible

-I crammed a small stack of quarters inside the tremolo cavity, blocking the tremolo.

-a set of Pete Biltoft Vintage Vibe SP90 pickups. I got the girth and punch of a P-90, yet retained the sparkle and spank of a Stratocaster

-customized neck plate etched with the Screamin’ Armadillos band logo and the name of the guitar, “Fiesta Red” under the logo.

I will detail the Telecaster's journey later.

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

Just a nice bridge pup replacement for my Squier, never use the neck, and Middle is okay for now, always change the strings of course, really into EB Hybrid Slinkeys, nothing to crazy, eventually ima change my tuners

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My Telecaster was originally a MIM Tele Special. It had a coil-tapped humbucker in the neck position and a 5-way switch.

-I’m not much of a humbucker guy, and I wasn’t using the neck position very much, so I originally turned the guitar into an Esquire (removed neck pickup, replaced the pickguard with a blank one/no cutout, and added a three-way switch/wiring) and played it like that for a couple of years.

-Later, I changed my mind about the Esquire (fun but limiting), so I put a P90 in the neck position; I cut the hole for the pickup in the Esquire pickguard (not a Fender original, just a WD copy) with a Dremel tool.

-added 4-way Tele switching and a Fender “No-Load” tone pot (love those!)

-Installed a neckplate engraved with my band’s Screamin’ Armadillos logo and the guitar's name ("Big Tex").

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Good Vibes To Y'all!



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