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Harley Benton HQS «High Quality Strings»: no they aren’t
So I’ve got these to test them. Cheap, 2.88€ a set. Colored ends. Pretty cardboard box. But how good are they? After putting around 50 hours in (on the StripCaster): they aren’t. Right after putting them on, the wound strings were already lacking in high freq content but now it’s…
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Gold-o-Caster final touch
Gold-o-Caster series The very last thing that was left to do: replacing the black pickup switch tip with a golden one. Spot a difference 🙂 Before: After: The “gold” color of the tip is not exactly the same hue as the gold of the buttons or of the control plate,…
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Stripcaster HH – 2
Continuing from the part 1 First couple of oil coats to seal the wood against the dust and the dirt. Next making a pickup routing template and the routing out the cavity The combination of the previous pickup and the new pickup cavities makes for a weird shape 🙂 Testing…
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Stripcaster HH – 1
Another low stress project! I’ve got an old Harley Benton with a maple neck and an alder with translucent finish body. The body finish is really cheap and uneven and I don’t like its color so going to strip it to bare wood that seems nice enough to let it…
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Harley Benton DC Jr – more mods
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…
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Round guitar picks
Made myself some round picks for no other reason than curiosity 🙂 To be fair, also because I wanted to find a cure against the picks that are rotating between my fingers. Starting from a normal “teardrop” shaped pick, removing extra material with big scissors, than refining the shape on…
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Green T
Another “partscaster”, this time a “thinline” (a semi-hollow body with an f-hole, very lightweight). The body is from the same ebay seller who sold me the Gold-o-Caster’s body. The neck is from G&L – some years ago they’ve been selling parts with huge discount that weren’t considered good enough for…
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New Guitar Day – Ibanez JSM-20
Just bragging this time, I obviously didn’t make it myself. My first hollowbody, also probably my most expensive guitar so far 🙂
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Gold-o-Caster
Gold-o-Caster series Nothing too complicated, this is what people call a “parts-caster” – an assembly of parts made by someone else. No real “lutherie” present here at all 🙂 The body first: got it from ebay. Good quality, double cream binding, and most importantly it’s sparkly GOLD. The sizes are…
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Harley Benton DC Jr – modifications
What do you do if you don’t like the color of a guitar you have? I don’t know about you (maybe you don’t buy it in the first place), but I refinish it just because I can 🙂 This is the guitar I’ve got with a big discount, it was…
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Gretch Jim Dandy + pickup
Added a soundhole pickup into this guitar! It won’t be an “acoustic” anymore, but an “acoustic electric”! First two additional holes: one for a volume potentiometer (6 mm) and another for the endpin jack (12 mm): The pickup is a Gretch Deltoluxe – a very nice magnetic single coil designed…
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Gretch Jim Dandy
Just got this parlor-size guitar (smaller body and shorter scale than usual), and already liking it 🙂 The sound isn’t big but still very pleasant, great for practicing at home. I’ll be installing a Gretch Deltoluxe magnetic pickup in it soon!