RVA
Ambassador
You could always get a Nashville bridge for additional travel
HELP ME! I think I am done modding my main guitar!
- Thread starter Gahr
- Start date
The Les Paul Replica we built here in SoCal is inhumanly accurate. Once we had the neck attached, i took the guitar to B. Hefner in Whittier, California.
They used a CNC machine to locate the fret slots, nut shelf and bridge post locations and all of these were cut by them.
They used a CNC machine to locate the fret slots, nut shelf and bridge post locations and all of these were cut by them.
syscokid
Ambassador of War & Peace
Yup, that's perfection right there! All the saddles still have plenty of fore and aft traveling room.
eSGEe
Ferengi Ambassador of Trade
you said NUT shelf.................
OP
Gahr
Ambassador of Blues & Brews
Lo and behold, another project is finished. The "Duane-ification of my Les Paul goldtop is complete. My goal has been to turn a 2011 Les Paul Traditional into a guitar resembling Duane Allman's iconic 1957 Goldtop. Granted, there are features that are quite different from the original; my guitar has a baked maple fretboard, cream colored binding and pickup rings as opposed to white on Duane's, but for what it's worth, I think I have come close enough.
My mods are the following: I swapped the tuners for a set of aged nickel "milk bottle" Grover Rotomatics and gave it a new TRC with a wider bevel than the stock one. I changed the stock pup rings for vintage-style tall ones (one of which is broken, but I think it kind of fits the somewhat aged style of the guitar...), and put in a set of vintage T-Tops that I bought with unoriginal, aged nickel covers. The original speed knobs had already been swapped for gold bell knobs by the previous owner. The last mod I did was swapping the tailpiece and bridge for aged nickel parts. The bridge has conversion studs in order to fit the ABR-1 bridge in the existing Nashville anchors.
Like Duane, I top wrap the strings. I picked up a trick from a video I saw of Joe Bonamassa's guitar tech who recommended threading the strings through a set of string balls (from the old set of strings) before putting them on the guitar. When doing this you avoid having the sharp ends of the "twisted" part of the string protrude from the stopbar. The sharp ends tend to either scratch my hand or snag on my shirt sleeve if I don't do this.
My mods are the following: I swapped the tuners for a set of aged nickel "milk bottle" Grover Rotomatics and gave it a new TRC with a wider bevel than the stock one. I changed the stock pup rings for vintage-style tall ones (one of which is broken, but I think it kind of fits the somewhat aged style of the guitar...), and put in a set of vintage T-Tops that I bought with unoriginal, aged nickel covers. The original speed knobs had already been swapped for gold bell knobs by the previous owner. The last mod I did was swapping the tailpiece and bridge for aged nickel parts. The bridge has conversion studs in order to fit the ABR-1 bridge in the existing Nashville anchors.
Like Duane, I top wrap the strings. I picked up a trick from a video I saw of Joe Bonamassa's guitar tech who recommended threading the strings through a set of string balls (from the old set of strings) before putting them on the guitar. When doing this you avoid having the sharp ends of the "twisted" part of the string protrude from the stopbar. The sharp ends tend to either scratch my hand or snag on my shirt sleeve if I don't do this.
RVA
Ambassador
I love Goldtops. That is a fine specimin worthy of a cover or centerfold!Lo and behold, another project is finished. The "Duane-ification of my Les Paul goldtop is complete. My goal has been to turn a 2011 Les Paul Traditional into a guitar resembling Duane Allman's iconic 1957 Goldtop. Granted, there are features that are quite different from the original; my guitar has a baked maple fretboard, cream colored binding and pickup rings as opposed to white on Duane's, but for what it's worth, I think I have come close enough.
My mods are the following: I swapped the tuners for a set of aged nickel "milk bottle" Grover Rotomatics and gave it a new TRC with a wider bevel than the stock one. I changed the stock pup rings for vintage-style tall ones (one of which is broken, but I think it kind of fits the somewhat aged style of the guitar...), and put in a set of vintage T-Tops that I bought with unoriginal, aged nickel covers. The original speed knobs had already been swapped for gold bell knobs by the previous owner. The last mod I did was swapping the tailpiece and bridge for aged nickel parts. The bridge has conversion studs in order to fit the ABR-1 bridge in the existing Nashville anchors.
Like Duane, I top wrap the strings. I picked up a trick from a video I saw of Joe Bonamassa's guitar tech who recommended threading the strings through a set of string balls (from the old set of strings) before putting them on the guitar. When doing this you avoid having the sharp ends of the "twisted" part of the string protrude from the stopbar. The sharp ends tend to either scratch my hand or snag on my shirt sleeve if I don't do this.
OP
Gahr
Ambassador of Blues & Brews
Ok, ok, so I wasn't done.
Living in Norway, vintage guitar gear is usually really hard to come by domestically. The odd vintage guitar pops up on www.finn.no from time to time (the Norwegian version of craigslist), and since the market is pretty small, prices are actually very often quite decent compared to for instance ebay. Often this goes for the rest of Europe as well. I have bought stuff from European sellers on ebay at prices that are really good several times. A couple of weeks ago I got lucky again. It's a silly thing, but anyway; I bought a 1964 TRC for the "1964-ified" SG. The price was less than half of what I would pay for a new one in shops here. Is it genuine? Well, there's no way I can tell, really. But the seller (from Spain) seemed very sincere, I talked to him both before and after buying. The bevelling is correct for the period, and it has the right patina for its age. If I indeed have been screwed, I don't care, really. And naturally, it is made from the correct type pf TONE PLASTIC that will make my guitar sound at least twice as good. And it goes without saying that it will improve my playing more than 50 %.
Living in Norway, vintage guitar gear is usually really hard to come by domestically. The odd vintage guitar pops up on www.finn.no from time to time (the Norwegian version of craigslist), and since the market is pretty small, prices are actually very often quite decent compared to for instance ebay. Often this goes for the rest of Europe as well. I have bought stuff from European sellers on ebay at prices that are really good several times. A couple of weeks ago I got lucky again. It's a silly thing, but anyway; I bought a 1964 TRC for the "1964-ified" SG. The price was less than half of what I would pay for a new one in shops here. Is it genuine? Well, there's no way I can tell, really. But the seller (from Spain) seemed very sincere, I talked to him both before and after buying. The bevelling is correct for the period, and it has the right patina for its age. If I indeed have been screwed, I don't care, really. And naturally, it is made from the correct type pf TONE PLASTIC that will make my guitar sound at least twice as good. And it goes without saying that it will improve my playing more than 50 %.
Col Mustard
Ambassador of Perseverance
personally, I like the holes in the top...
Pete Townshend used to play SGs from that time period, and he would always remove
the ABR=1 bridge and install the earlier model wrap-over, which he preferred.
So there are photos of him with holes in the top of his guitar where the ABR-1 and tailpiece
used to be. If that was good enough for Townshend...
But don't smash your guitar, it's perfectly good.
Pete Townshend used to play SGs from that time period, and he would always remove
the ABR=1 bridge and install the earlier model wrap-over, which he preferred.
So there are photos of him with holes in the top of his guitar where the ABR-1 and tailpiece
used to be. If that was good enough for Townshend...
But don't smash your guitar, it's perfectly good.
eSGEe
Ferengi Ambassador of Trade
Dude-- shop here--- Ill ship it to yaOk, ok, so I wasn't done.
Living in Norway, vintage guitar gear is usually really hard to come by domestically. The odd vintage guitar pops up on www.finn.no from time to time (the Norwegian version of craigslist), and since the market is pretty small, prices are actually very often quite decent compared to for instance ebay. Often this goes for the rest of Europe as well. I have bought stuff from European sellers on ebay at prices that are really good several times. A couple of weeks ago I got lucky again. It's a silly thing, but anyway; I bought a 1964 TRC for the "1964-ified" SG. The price was less than half of what I would pay for a new one in shops here. Is it genuine? Well, there's no way I can tell, really. But the seller (from Spain) seemed very sincere, I talked to him both before and after buying. The bevelling is correct for the period, and it has the right patina for its age. If I indeed have been screwed, I don't care, really. And naturally, it is made from the correct type pf TONE PLASTIC that will make my guitar sound at least twice as good. And it goes without saying that it will improve my playing more than 50 %.
After I rub my junk on it of course !!! lol
The 4mm gold roller Nashville arrived with the 4mm studs and new anchors
