The most extensive mods you've done to your guitar?

[55'gibby]

I'm curious as to how much folks change about their guitars. I'm always fiddling around with my stuff (with the exception of my gibby). I like to keep working on them until I have something that is very personal to me. Who else here is like that?

[ianb]

I had an old telecaster copy that I put some Texas Tele pickups in and liked it so much that I got an American Telecaster to put the pickups in.

So new Pickups and new guitar, does that count as a mod

[muchavo]

I try not to modify my guitars though I do get the bug every now and again.

I recently added a shim to the saddle of my acoustic guitar.

I like it.

I also stripped all the paint off a strat copy that i have though I havnt finished it. I generally dont like strats.

Im thinking about getting a bone saddle for my acoustic but i'm not really sure about it.

I just avoid mods because I've seen too many guitars ruined by unnecessary mods.

Pedals are another thing.

[Rapture]

The only thing I've done is put in new pickups. Aside from pickups, paint or replacing the bridge, I really dunno how far mods to a guitar can go.

[Zoso_Player]

I just finished modding my 2004 Fender strat. The only thing left from the original guitar is the body.

I really have fun fitting something to my personal specs. Makes it feel like I really own the guitar.

[FastRedPonyCar]

RS guitarworks pots and sheptone BK pickups went into my Tokai

A brass floyd block and dimarzio evolutions went into my C66

And for my DC135, I enlarged the neck pickup single coil route to accomodate a humbucker which (as of now) is the neck pickup that came with my tokai and the bridge pickup is a bareknuckle nailbomb. I also added a 3 way pickup selector and CTS pots.

[2slow]

pick-guard, pick-ups, filed the end's of the frets(they were scraping my hand)
black screws & knobs, I put a block of wood to stop the tremolo bar from being
pulled up that way the guitar doesn't go out of tune when I break a string.
I never use the thing any way and I don't have a roadie to hand me a fresh
guitar.

Pony I checked out your last song, I liked it!



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[bonsy]

Before i got my first left handed guitar, the first guitar i got was a westone thunder 1 Made in japan 1982. The day i received the guitar i tried to restring it LH. The brass nut had to be filed down to accomodate the bass strings and the tone and volume control knobs had to go, as i couldnt strum without disturbing them! I also replaced the humbucker with a dimarzio pick up!. ha, ive still got it,and ive still got the removed parts. its absolutely solid.