/ Register

  1. Win a Broadcaster or one of 3 Teles! The annual Supporting Member Giveaway is on. To enter Click Here. To see all the prizes and full details Click Here. To view the thread about the giveaway Click Here.

Just for the fun of it - Wow

Discussion in 'Other Guitars, other instruments' started by Missing Link, Sep 28, 2020.

  1. Sep 28, 2020 #1
    Missing Link

    Missing Link Tele-Meister

    Posts:
    378
    Joined:
    Jan 19, 2018
    Location:
    USA and UK
    Okay a few months back I bought a Gibson LP Jr. Maestro at a yard sale for $20. Since the C-19 thing I seem to be at home more and looking for tings to do when not working. Well this Jr. been sitting in the corner screaming for an up grade so I made it into a Jr. special.
    So out comes the router and torn into the body to add an extra HB cavity, installed a three way switch and some new Humbuckers cut the pick guard rewired and holly crap this baby is bad.
    I WAS thinking of giving it to my nephew for a beginners guitar but this $20 plays like a $300 guitar.
    I will give it to him after I play the crap out of it but if any of you guys fine one of these on eBay or CL you might want to give it an upgrade, its actuly not bad. Also keeps you off the streets and out of the bars.
    I am looking for a sunburst one now, let me know if you have one, it will get a HB and a Telly neck pickup with a 4 way switch.
    Cheers
     

    Attached Files:

    uriah1, Flip G, hemingway and 1 other person like this.
  2. Sep 30, 2020 #2
    Loambiker76

    Loambiker76 TDPRI Member

    Age:
    46
    Posts:
    36
    Joined:
    Sep 24, 2020
    Location:
    Somewhere in time
    Just to clarify: when you say its "bad", you actually mean "good", right? :p
     
  3. Sep 30, 2020 #3
    KATT

    KATT Tele-Meister

    Posts:
    164
    Joined:
    Aug 4, 2011
    Location:
    Essex, England
    Yes, that's confusing me too! Does that then mean that "not bad" actually means not good?
     
  4. Sep 30, 2020 #4
    Loambiker76

    Loambiker76 TDPRI Member

    Age:
    46
    Posts:
    36
    Joined:
    Sep 24, 2020
    Location:
    Somewhere in time
    I just don't know what to believe any more :(:D
     
    KATT likes this.
  5. Oct 1, 2020 #5
    Missing Link

    Missing Link Tele-Meister

    Posts:
    378
    Joined:
    Jan 19, 2018
    Location:
    USA and UK
    Have a bad ass day :rolleyes:
     
  6. Oct 1, 2020 #6
    tubegeek

    tubegeek Friend of Leo's

    Age:
    60
    Posts:
    3,882
    Joined:
    Jan 31, 2020
    Location:
    Brooklyn, NY

    or
     
  7. Oct 1, 2020 #7
    haggardfan1

    haggardfan1 Friend of Leo's

    Age:
    57
    Posts:
    3,796
    Joined:
    Mar 17, 2014
    Location:
    Texas, Louisiana, Texas again
    Cool deal. I really like that color.
     
  8. Oct 1, 2020 #8
    Missing Link

    Missing Link Tele-Meister

    Posts:
    378
    Joined:
    Jan 19, 2018
    Location:
    USA and UK
    It is a nice color and it does play very nicely, the HB are out of an older Epiphone LP I had from years ago. This guitar now was well worth the effort.
    Cheers
     
  9. Oct 1, 2020 #9
    1 21 gigawatts

    1 21 gigawatts Tele-Meister

    Age:
    46
    Posts:
    484
    Joined:
    Aug 24, 2020
    Location:
    Florida
    I love these projects- upgrading cheap, readily available guitars. It shows that you don't have to spend a bunch of money to get a fun guitar.
     
  10. Oct 1, 2020 #10
    Missing Link

    Missing Link Tele-Meister

    Posts:
    378
    Joined:
    Jan 19, 2018
    Location:
    USA and UK
    I believe you hit the nail one the head, cheap and plays as good as SOME high end guitars.

    Have fun
     
  11. Oct 1, 2020 #11
    richiek65

    richiek65 Friend of Leo's

    Posts:
    4,183
    Joined:
    Dec 26, 2012
    Location:
    Sydney NSW Australia
    Richard Pryor to a homeless man in Silver Streak (or was it Stir Crazy?):

    "that's a bad hat you got there, I'll give you 5 bucks for it"
     
IMPORTANT: Treat everyone here with respect, no matter how difficult!
No sex, drug, political, religion or hate discussion permitted here.