Kid's guitar turbo-charged

[Big_Stu]

My brother came to me with a kid's Rockwood by Hohner guitar that was skip-salvage; maple neck, black Strat shaped-ish body & one cr*ppy single coil. Broken jack & some fairly bad scratches.
Cleaned it up a bit & fitted a new Neutrik, then had a root thru my parts boxes and found a 1990's John Birch "Full Range" Strat pickup; bwwwwaahhh-ha-ha-ha-haaa. It screams like a good 'un and goes right down to a cool rhythm chunk!

[Kiwi]

what was the body made from? Ply or some kind of solid wood?

[daz]

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1352507009' post='1864144']
what was the body made from? Ply or some kind of solid wood?
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MDF isn't it ?

[Big_Stu]

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1352507009' post='1864144']what was the body made from? Ply or some kind of solid wood?[/quote]

[quote name='daz' timestamp='1352547812' post='1864429']MDF isn't it ?[/quote]

Hard to say, I wouldn't think solid wood of any kind - the cavity is very simple, one input & one x vol and very thick paint (original) I can't see any layers to say plywood, so I'd assume MDF. The neck plate says it's from the "Performer" range.

Looks like someone has had a go at tarting it up in the past, there's a red wire & a green one coming from the vol pot - about 2 inches long and just twisted together - and a nice day-glo green wire from input to the bridge for the earth. The maple neck has also had the finish sanded off - across the grain - on the fingerboard which has been soaked & stained, presumably by rain, with rust off the frets getting into the grain in places.

So it's still a wreck - but I haven't filed the nut down to .5 of a mm for ease of beginner chords NOR have I adjusted the relief at the top nut by a gnat's c*ck............yet! But a wreck has never sounded like this one does.... ah well, it filled a few hours .

[fumps]

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1352555390' post='1864561']
So it's still a wreck - but I haven't filed the nut down to .5 of a mm for ease of beginner chords NOR have I adjusted the relief at the top nut by a gnat's c*ck............yet! But a wreck has never sounded like this one does.... ah well, it filled a few hours .
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Thats because your not a pro yet lol

[Big_Stu]

[quote name='fumps' timestamp='1352906453' post='1869216']


Thats because your not a pro yet lol
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I know - I do hope to aspire to his dizzy heights. Then it would be a Wreck-par-excellence!

I'm still looking for a "soap-bar pickup" which is cunningly disguised as a humbucker sized single coil.

Edited November 14, 2012 by Big_Stu

[iiipopes]

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1352906974' post='1869230']
I'm still looking for a "soap-bar pickup" which is cunningly disguised as a humbucker sized single coil.
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Gibson P-94 [url="http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Divisions/Gibson%20Gear/Pickups/P-94/"]http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Divisions/Gibson%20Gear/Pickups/P-94/[/url]

[Big_Stu]

[quote name='iiipopes' timestamp='1352925887' post='1869520']
Gibson P-94 [url="http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Divisions/Gibson%20Gear/Pickups/P-94/"]http://www.gibson.co...r/Pickups/P-94/[/url]
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Yeah, I got that thanks - but I would hazard a guess that he wouldn't know what a soap-bar looks like in any other context apart from what he uses to spruce himself up before his pic is taken for his adverts.