Guitars that you never expected to be worth much (that you happily modded over the years)

ICBM

ThePrettyDamned said:

Icbm, if ever he feels like selling that...

It's gone already I'm afraid - he only had it a few months. I think it was a sort of mid-life crisis moment before he settled down into comfortable middle age with a Les Paul Custom .

(He's younger than me I hasten to add, in case he happens to be reading this! )

keithf

i had a red 88 prs studio that i fitted a humbucker in the neck ,not my smartest move

:-S

mike_l

limpymcginty said:

Not my own mod but I had a really nice Yamaha SG 1500 back in the 90s that some fool had fitted a kahler to...Oh my the sustain went on for micro seconds....it was cheap and there was a reason...

I once played a gorgeous Strat, natural wood finish, fantastic neck, which had a Kahler installed. It was wrong in epic proportions

jimmyd

I remember the guitar tech in nottingham who sorts my guitars telling me about his late 50s Tele that he'd routed out the body for a kahler trem and neck and bridge humbuckers...

Catthan

I have this Am. series strat and I have changed pups many times, also the trem block, neck, installed the Surh silent backplate and am now about to strip the white poly finish off spray it with black nitro..

It's a gtr which although I'm not really crazy about, I have a strange connection with it and never thought of selling..

fretfinder

This is my 'modded' PRS McCarty 10 top in grey/black with moons. It never really sounded great to me, sort of middly and boxy, so I got Mansons to install a set of Bare Knuckle Mules and it totally transformed the guitar, sounds great now, miles better! http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j359/Fretfinder/b86699e3184379991e0b2cbdd260b9c4.jpg

OilCityPickups

Amongst the dreadful deeds I perpetrated when working as a young repair man in the seventies ... routing a customer's 65 Strat for three humbuckers ... and fitting Super Distortions to any number of late sixties Les Pauls.