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AG
05-09-2006, 04:27 AM
The guitar guys will have probably seen this when I first posted it, ages ago. It's very much in the design and development stages, I'm still trying to find an effective way to drill out the pickup slugs, or find a steel/iron tube that is the right size.

Buuuuuuut eventually I'm lookin to get red/blue LED's in it, switchable between the two colours/off on a DPDT on/off/on switch, and have a switch allowing me to have the LED's chasing or flashing. I'm so 80's :upset:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v86/lalalalalalalala/PickupLED.jpg

These LED's tie in with the 3 lights I have on my strat atm, indicating which pickup(s) is on.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v86/lalalalalalalala/mod.jpg

Every now and again I'll do a bit more work and post about it, but I suppose this is a good thread to introduce myself as a mod, and a wannabe luthier.

Cheers.
shred_like_me
05-09-2006, 05:13 AM
dude that is a sweet project keep on modifiying
Sad But True
05-09-2006, 10:09 AM
Meh, you need a childrens keyboard or you just don't beat Detuned0


Heh, but yeah, we should start an LED lubers club.

OH YEAH! I just remembered! My mate says I can have his cheapo plexiglass guitar! And the first thing that came to mind was "drill lots of holes in the body for lots of LEDs".
AG
05-09-2006, 10:50 AM
OH YEAH! I just remembered! My mate says I can have his cheapo plexiglass guitar! And the first thing that came to mind was "drill lots of holes in the body for lots of LEDs".


Zomg. Awesome. :D


I just got done reshaping my eBay guitars neck/sanding off the gloss. It's gonna be black pretty soon.
Sad But True
05-09-2006, 10:56 AM
Tell me more of said EBay guitar. And do you know anyone that's good with motorbikes
/random question
AG
05-09-2006, 11:06 AM
Zakath? he's always talking about bikes.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v86/lalalalalalalala/0e8e98c1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v86/lalalalalalalala/c7c6e9db.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v86/lalalalalalalala/07cc4ecf.jpg

It's gonna be a guitar bought from cheap stuff on eBay, lol.
the101er
05-09-2006, 12:02 PM
Is that actually gonna work?
AG
05-09-2006, 12:06 PM
Yeh, course. I'm gonna put a string retainer right after the nut, so the tension is good.

Although, my strat hasn't got string trees and it's fine.
fortyseven
05-09-2006, 12:08 PM
that looks pretty funky. id cut my headstock up, however i put a big smily face sticker on it so you know, it'd be a waste.

i have however made zebra stripes for my pickguard to spray over sometime!
Peg Dizzler
05-09-2006, 05:03 PM
I'm so 80's :upset:

and a wannabe luthier.
No wai, me 2!!! :D
Double You Awful
05-09-2006, 09:03 PM
These LED's tie in with the 3 lights I have on my strat atm, indicating which pickup(s) is on.


I was thinking about doing that to my guitar, having LEDs to indicate which pickups are on. How hard was it to do?
AG
05-10-2006, 11:12 AM
Very easy, I just used the other pole of my 5 5 way switch. You might have to track down a Les Paul style toggle but in DPDT if you have two buckers, or if you're using both poles of a 5 way, get hold of the megaswitch delaer, which has 4 poles.
The_Mop
05-10-2006, 05:11 PM
BTW - SBT - don't drill holes into the body of a plexiglass guitar. Put the LED's behind pickguard, or if it's a clear pickguard, behind the pickups. It'd look way better than drilling holes straight into the body.
Akira
05-10-2006, 08:13 PM
The LEDs are sweet, not so sure about the headstock though.
Double You Awful
05-10-2006, 08:52 PM
Very easy, I just used the other pole of my 5 5 way switch. You might have to track down a Les Paul style toggle but in DPDT if you have two buckers, or if you're using both poles of a 5 way, get hold of the megaswitch delaer, which has 4 poles.

/doesn't know very much, if anything about electronics.

But thinking about it, it doesn't really seem that hard. My jackson has room for a battery in it, so I was thinking of adding something... battery powered.