r/guitarmod

After 6 months of designing, accumulating parts, painting and building; my Jag-Stang is complete. My idea was to take Kurt Cobain’s design and modernize it a little bit. I love Nirvana but I wanted a Jag-Stang that I could play metal on.

Warmoth neck:
Mustang/Jaguar CBS neck
Indian rosewood fretboard
10”-16” compound
Standard thin profile
6100 Jumbo frets
Gotoh locking tuners
GraphTech TUSQ nut

Warmoth body
Bare Knuckle Halcyon pickup set
500k pots
Tune-o-matic bridge
All Parts short metal dome knobs

Custom Kurt Cobain neck plate
Strap locks
Custom headstock logos

Hey guys,

Realized after I got the guitar back together that I had stupidly installed the switch backwards. Do I need to take this to a luthier to fix, or is it okay to use it As-is?

i know it already comes with a push in arm but i prefer the floyd one

A Guitar made for weekend playing, so i dont need to bring one every time.

DC kit, great out of the box, after fretjob unbeatable.

Neck Pickup original, bridge a donlis i had lay around.

Horro movie stickers, whos phil x you say? ;)

I personally believe this is one of the easiest acoustic guitar mods that make the biggest improvement. Also picked up some new solid bridge pins from elderly to compete the mod. All said and done the guitar sounds better for sure.
Anyone else done this to one of their guitars yet? It’s not that hard to do if you have the right tools, and the tools really don’t cost that much.

I posted a little while back about a potential upgrade project with my Epiphone G400. I took some feedback to heart and finally finished it up. It's a blast to play.

The modifications were: Grover vintage tuners, TUSQ XL nut, Bigsby B5 conversion, TonePros roller bridge, Jimmy Page wiring harness from Starr Guitar Systems, Seymour Duncan P-Rail pickups, and knurled black aluminum control knobs.

Let me know what you think.

So I only use the bridge pickup, this mod would basically be disconnecting the neck pickup, I'm fine with that I don't use it.

I know that in the default position the bridge needs to form a circuit and in depressed position the circuit needs to go to ground to prevent noise.

However do I also need to ground the body of the switch? How would I go about this? I cant solder onto it cus the nut needs to thread on, should I solder to a washer or something between the nut and the wood of the cabity? (The cavities in the guitar are unshielded if this is relevant at all)

For the depressed position when it grounds do I want the bridge pickup live to go to ground or do I want the neutral to go to ground?

Do I ground the disused neck pickup live or do I just tape off the end and leave it disconnected?

I can sus out what to connect where by trial and error but if anybody knows which of the pins pictured above I solder the bridge live, neutral and ground to that'd make this whole thing much easier.

Cheers in advance all.

Bought a partscaster cheap off marketplace. The electronics are a mess and I’m swapping some stuff out but this capacitor is coming off the center tone pot and I don’t know where the broken solder came from. What’s this supposed to be soldered to?

peavey raptor that I have repainted, replaced the missing output jack and replaced all three pickups. I still need to replace the pick guard, screws, and pickup switch as it malfunctions.

I've been messing with this Bullet Strat for 9+ years. It has Fender locking tuners, a Tone Ninja nut, a Pure Tone jack, and Fender pots. Until this week, it had just the Wilde 500XL at the bridge, single volume, but I had this Duncan p90 I had bought for a different guitar, but never used. Currently, the volumes can cancel each other out like a Les Paul with the switch in the center position. Time will only tell how long I'll keep it as is, but it gets some great edge of breakup tones right now.

Hey everyone! (and apologies if I haven’t posted this in the right Reddit places)

I’ve got Mexican player Duo Sonic, bought in 2019, and I’m thinking about turning it into a kinda experimental recording guitar but also something I can play in a band with.

My plan is to combine two sounds I really like, the vintage teisco or gold foil style single coil in the neck, trying to get somewhere near Mac DeMarco’s old cardboard queen tone, and a Gibson P-94T in the bridge the same one Nick Valensi uses (I think)

I’m not trying to sound exactly like either guitar I mostly like the idea of having a really jangly, slightly weird, low output neck sound and a much thicker, more aggressive P-90-style bridge sound and combining them.

My main questions are

Would these two pickups actually work well together? Has anyone tried pairing an old Japanese/Teisco-style pickup with a P-90 or P-94?

Would you go for an actual vintage Japanese pickup, or something modern like a lipstick/gold-foil style pickup for reliability?

I’d like to avoid routing the body and just have a custom pickguard made so I can keep costs down. I’m not really that bothered about returning it to stock. Is this a good idea?

Took me several attempts, but here's the fruit of my labour - a Fluorescent pick guard! Bringing it along to the Canadian Guitar Show in Calgary this weekend 🎸

Little tribute mod to my favorite game Returnal.

This is originally a blue HSH Washburn MG-24.

Pickups are Dimarzios. Humbucker from Hell in neck position and Evolution bridge.

Hi! Has anyone replaced the stock locking tuners on a Spira V-500 with Gotoh locking tuners? I have a Spira V-500 TPPE and I'm considering the Gotoh SG381-07 MG-T Locking 6R B.
Does anyone know if the SG381s are a direct drop-in replacement for the stock Spira tuners?
I'm mainly wondering if the tuner holes and rear mounting screw holes line up correctly, and whether the post length works with the V-500 headstock.
If you've done this upgrade on a V-500 or another Spira with the same reverse headstock, did you need to drill, enlarge any holes, or make any other modifications?
The stock locking tuners on mine aren't great, so I'd like to replace them with something better, but I'd prefer to avoid modifying or drilling into the headstock if possible.
If anyone has replaced the stock Spira tuners with Gotohs (even a different Gotoh model), I'd be interested to know which model you used and how well they fit

Thanks in advance! 😊🙏🏽

I’ve recently got the Kirk Hammett V, love the guitar, but I’m not super keen on the bridge. Has anyone replaced theirs, and if so what with? Also anyone swapped the tuners for locking ones? What did you get?