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Badscrew Projects
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Making and hacking software and hardware. Also making music and art.

Harley Benton DC Jr – more mods

Badscrew, May 8, 2023July 15, 2023

This was the previous mod. Of course I wanted more modifications, here they are 🙂

First, a blue neck on a red body was fun for a moment but at the end I stripped the blue paint off

<to add the pic of the back>

Then, I wanted to add a neck pickup, having only one bridge pickup is too limiting for me – I’m playing maybe 90% of the time with a neck pickup and adding one would make this guitar more useful for me.

First the template:

Some router work later:

Also, new electronics

And in the end, this is the result.

With or without the pickguard:

Compared to the “before”:

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