26 Guitar Modifications that Will Haunt Your Dreams | Would You Rock Or Not? Ep 81
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This is a compilation of many interesting modifications and less than traditional / poor repair attempts on varying electric guitar brands.
"Interesting" Guitar Modifications and Repairs | Innovative or Scary? | Would You Rock Or Not? Ep 81
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The Trogly's Guitar Show the prs and fender v’s
Hey trogly, you should check out Connan Mockasin's self-modified Stratocaster that is shaped almost like a VOX Teardrop
The Trogly's Guitar Show dude your channel name is so gay dude for real nerdy too sorry
The fender emblem screwed to the headstock is pretty genius. Would rock.
It's definitely a squire too, it says affinity next to it.
Lol
@@elobiretv Fender affinity 😂
@@elobiretv fender affinity 😂
Oh no, you bought the headless SG didn't you?
Shaw Hennessey you sound like a very disappointed mother
LMFAO.....
Shaw Hennessey that’s the way I heard it aswell. I’d be lieing if I said I wasn’t curious
Shaw Hennessey yep.
Definitely one way to fix a broken headstock, lol!
Eddie wasnt kidding when said he destroyed alot guitars to find the perfect sound...
Lol 😂
No one, absolutely no one:
Those crazy fanmade controller mockups designed before a game console is announced: 3:03
We shouldn't laugh too hard at these. Remember that back in the '70s that a kid named Eddie Van Halen took a Strat body, carved out the bridge pickup rout with a chisel, screwed a Gibson humbucker in there, that he'd rewound himself and dipped in a coffee pot of wax, left the middle rout empty and the neck pickup non functional, because of his limited wiring skills, then cut up his own pickguard, put a knob labeled Tone, for the volume because it was all he had, screwed a coin under the bridge, stuck in his own screw-eye strap hooks, then changed music forever!
to be fair, I think he would have been just as famous if he wasn't playing on a home-made botch-job
@@batastrophic9762 I totally agree, just making the point that some of the guitars in this video might actually be amazing.
@@Robman275 talking about this brings to mind Brian May's "Red Special". Although, in my books, that guitar was a clean enough looking build to not be considered a "botch job"
@@batastrophic9762 Yeah that's too lovely to be a botch job lol. Crazy that was originally an old fire place :D
@@batastrophic9762 Clean enough not to be considered a botch? GTFO! That guitar is damn near perfect and its design is pure genius. He and his dad invented the knife edge floating tremolo! A few years later Floyd Rose took the idea and made it practical for the masses.
The headless SG actually shows a bit of creative for thought. Thumbs up for that masterpiece.
If Homer Simpson was your luthier.
Preety much
Homer: “Hmm, fret replacement? This one’s going to be easy!” [Lights a blow torch.]
Which would you rock and/or roll?
"if"?
looks more like "when" lol
@@joermnyc A bit overkill, but Homer's not _completely_ in outer space here; he's just in the stratosphere. If your frets are glued in, it's advisable to heat the frets gently with a soldering gun that you've cut the tip's end off of.
the cut jaguar actually looks cool
Asdf Asdfz It's a Jazzmaster, not a Jaguar.
@@sagrado5 seriously how do you fuck those 2 up?
@@Obiwannabe Everyone isn't a Fender fan, you know. The only real differences visually are that the Jazzmaster has a longer scale length (not that visible); The Jaguar has metal plates where the knobs, the pickups switches and the other switches are; the Jazzmaster has a 3-way toggle switch while the Jaguar has 2 on-off switches (and a turbo switch, I think); and the Jazzmaster has those big single coils while the Jaguar has more normal looking single coils (although they look like they pop out more from the guitar than the stratocaster ones). So basically, the differences are minimal.
@@randomguy263 All you need to do is look at the pickups.
@@Obiwannabe Yes, but then again everyone doesn't know all Fender guitars and you can switch pickups and all Jazzmasters don't even originally have the large pickups.
Most of these look like someone's methed out project.
Exactly what I was gonna say......
more like some meth head's next dose
I scalloped my RG on my own with two hand tools. It turned out to be a really awesome job, there was only one spot where I made a mistake but it only cosmetic.
I did the same to an Ibanez EX360 back in the early 90's. Came out great. Cheers
Jesus Fret-Tapping Christ, what abominations!!
4:10 looks like a highly-detailed PRS cake ... at least, you'd want it to be ... D:
Most of the others are just too horrific for words ... ...
Totally agree. I get that they can do whatever they want. But really WTF!!!!- The PRS didnt bother me as much as the Gibsons and Fenders I saw. Makes me wanna puke.
I like the idea of a hyper-realistic looking guitar cake!
Lol, I'm one of those people that thinks that inanimate objects have souls so this is just terrifying for me. Fuck anybody who mutilates a guitar.
Who does that to a beautiful 'Norlin era' Goldie? Old Goldie's should be protected by law!
I hear ya bro...had the chance to pick one of those beauties up in the mid 80s for $800 (goldtop, mini 'buckers, original hsc, stunningly gorgeous condition), passed because I couldn't justify spending that much on a guitar. Been kicking myself in the ass ever since!
Tough break man. I've got a '56R Goldie, I wanted one ever since I saw Mick Ronson paying one with Bowie as Ziggy when I was a kid. I love Goldie's, especially with P90 pups (same routing as minibuckers too), so someone cutting one up is sacrilege as far as I'm concerned.
I think it's crazy to do to a good top l.p. but I thought it looked petty cool. I have a cheap epiphone l.p. special and I might try something like that for fun.
Why not? A high end Epi would be a bit too expensive but an Epi special is a different matter. Cheap pups & hardware are easily replaceable too.
I sure wish I had the money to waste where I could take an expensive guitar like that goldtop and just butcher it. Im not sure if we are seeing a video of creative people or spoiled people who do not value their items?
love those kinds of videos - with wacky stuff. I also really love the videos where you show some of your guitars in detail. I really appreciate how in depth you go and your style of videos is very informative. I sometimes watch them before going to bed, they're actually kind of relaxing lol. You deserve way more subs but I'm sure it will come sooner or later. When I discovered you're born in 94 though... what did I do wrong in life to be not even close to having so nice guitars like you do? (I'm a '95 btw.)
Thanks for watching!
I worked 3-4 jobs while I was high school and in college. That put me ahead in life financially. I started this guitar stuff one guitar at a time, and now I'm at 30 guitars at a time! haha. All it takes is a dream, confidence and dedication.
Best,
Austin
I really want to know what the lightswitches do on that bass.
I guess the upper three are on/off for each pickups, bottom three are kinds of tone control
I suspect those are Lutron wireless controls, and switch lighting around the house😅
and notice an EMG Bridge pick up on it!
Obviously to turn on the lights, duh! 🤦♂️
Better off adding the Clapper …clap on clap off…imagine..Lol
The knobs ya wondered about looks like volume and tone for each pickup
When you ask "which one would you rock" do you mean which one would I throw rocks at? If so, I'd rock them all.
That cut up offset was beautiful! Almost and explorer/ jazzmaster feel.
I really dig the fender logo on the guitar and the 5 single coils. Just make the fender logo a bit smaller to where it fits the headstock and it's perfect. And for the 5 single coils, just place the pickups more evenly and add a humbucker option where two pickups are on and then that is good as well.
i LITERALLY YELPED AT THE SCALLOPED FRETS .why whyyyy.
some things you cannot unsee!!
What the hell have I just witnessed
I love the Fender amp logo on the headstock, Squier. Ridiculous and awesome. Probably adds sustain like a Fatfinger. I've got one of those logos that came off my old bass case...:)
You're doing one or more things right when even non-guitar players, like myself, tune in. Bravo.
I kinda dig the headless sg, especially after learning the backstory behind it.
I've already got a six (single) coil Stratocaster thank you. And yes, eets a verrry nice.... More voices than a Welsh male voice choir.
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Basically a Standard Corona 'VG' Strat. (The 'Virtual Guitar' Strat, that incorporates a Roland GR1/2 sensing pickup, feeding a processor programed with various emulated guitar/pickup voicings). I retained the original 'VG' circuitry and 'passive' wiring (replaced the pickups with Lace Sensors - Blue/Silver/Red) and tandemed up the wiring with a Deluxe loom with S1 switch and SCN pickups. Two five-way blade switches with all pots replaced with dual concentric versions, giving volume and tone (with TBX/Greasebucket mod) control to each pickup group selected. All fitted to a polished stainless-steel pickup plate.
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Bridge was upgraded from the standard six-screw effort to the Deluxe twin-fulcrum system. Tuners also replaced with Fender Deluxe locking tuners. Due to wear and tear, all frets were replaced with stainless frets and a Deluxe 'roller nut'.
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Controls are easy and intuitive, staying similar to original for both models (VG and Deluxe), but output is routed to a four channel output, or the option of just single channel. The stainless pickup plate also holds a generic tuner device, powered from the same source as the VG circuit.
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I call it - *Das UberStrat.*
this was a comedy horror show that i just loved because i got an entry for your next video. I laughed and screamed and was impressed with all of the salvages, if i may hope that was the intended thought there. lol
I rather like the Squier Strat with the Fender amplifier badge and the Affinity series name on the headstock. I presume the rest of it was stock?
Totally, absolutely, 100%, have taken a Fender amp emblem and put it on a Squier guitar before. I was so defensive when I saw that on the thumbnail and read the description, I just had to click.
4:35 That's a Jazz Master, not a Jaguar, but anyhow, great video! Keep it up!
I had a feeling I got it wrong haha
If you actually bought that headless sg thing then i can’t wait for a video on it. I think it looks really cool
They Destroyed these Guitars
I would rock the Strat with the big Fender amp logo, it is just so audacious.
Most of these make my vintage lawsuit era Ibanez SG mods seem reasonable. I was studying electronics at a voc-tech school from 1978-1980 and probably got the idea from Guitar Player Magazine. I created a circuit that put the pickups--not the coils, the whole pickups--in series and parallel with a mini toggle. Another toggle reversed the polarity of one of the coils, giving that pickup a very thin, trebly sound from the phase cancellations. To make any combination of pickups work with any toggle setting required an elaborate multi-pole, multi-throw rotary switch with complicated wiring. I custom ordered the switch from Grayhill--imagine getting a single custom component nowadays. I had to make the hole smaller, so I used a section of drum stick to fill and drill. I also drilled the batwing pickguard for a mini pot as a master volume, but never installed it, so it's just got a hole sitting there. I'm not sure how much I devalued it, but in its day it sounded pretty cool.
Those look like D’addario’s on that electric acoustic guitar
I think 7:14 is nicely done . Probably an Explorer style guitar originally. I have a feeling that each pickup has its own on/off switch and vol/tone control.
Looks like a Dean ML Lady Size but with the lower front Horn cut and re-angled. :-)
I didn't think of that. You may very well be right.
I think this is a Modified Peavy Mystic from the 1980's... I owned one in black.. really good guitars....
Do we know for sure that its a modification and not a custom made guitar. It looks too nicely made to be a mod.
I also wonder about that, but if it's not, then someone did a great job on the woodwork. You'd think that the pickups would be color matched if stock, but maybe not, or they could have been changed. I'd rock it.
I have a early 70’s “foil” pickup that’s so hot and microphonic I stuck it on the top of a cheap classical guitar as a experiment. It actually sounded surprisingly good , it actually reminded me of the ceramic pickups on the Baldwin classical guitars in the early 70’s.
I play a LP Deluxe and I would absolutely play that canoe paddle deluxe. I couldn’t bring myself to do it even to a Epiphone but I’d play one that was already done. I have to admit about the end of the second set I’d probably welcome it.
Not, just....not! LOL! Thanks for sharing the oddities and carved up curiosities!
8:58 that's good 'ol JB weld!
Nightmares most of them !
I'm surprised you didn't mention the "Page/Hendrix" poker chip and the vibrato bar on the Classical Guitar. Best stuff ever!
I'm guessing most of these efforts of desperation were done on guitars that all suffered catastrophic damage.. the gold top LP maybe dropped off a wall hanger busting binding and maybe separating the maple top deeply and was not damaged in the area that remained and the guy made lemonade out of his lemon of a mess.. making the best of what was left of a bad accident..the neck repairs show that these are almost all a result of damage that a proper repair far exceeded the cost of the guitars value just to have a de-valued repaired guitar..some were pretty crafty..some were.. let's just say they might have been better off waiting until AFTER the repair to light up that blunt!😁 Great vid Trog!
I dont really like strats but the 5 pickup one would be cool to own.
I kinda like the 5 pickup Strat at 8:05; personally I would've angled the fourth pickup so it would look like a natural progression between 3 and 5, and I think I would've done away with the five-way selector and had five individual on/off switches to get some crazy combos out of it. And if I wanted to be a little ambitious, I would figure out how to wire some in/out of phase switches to get some crazy tones out of it. I like unique, over the top guitars, and I feel like that would be an insane monster to try and tame.
Basically the 4 pickup and the 5 pickup have 4 or 5 engage switches, and 2 pots for each pickup, volume and tone. Interesting would be their choice of capacitors for each tone control.
Love the acoustic with the melted Frankenstein bridge
4:08 Ha! I have one of those Black And Decker powered screwdrivers at top right! They're really good.
Nice work on the consama vees, trogdor!
Spring used for spring reverb on first guitar? If so that is truly the most epic mod I've ever seen
7:23 this looks like a mod 18 year old me would’ve done. Best guess is the toggles are dedicated on/offs for the pickups and the knobs are dedicated volume and tone.
If the guy was a massive geek, he would’ve taken the used on/off/on toggles for the two bridge pickups to get series/off/parallel wiring for more tones.
The way you laugh is making me laugh😂 a bit like beavis
i guess that the first guitar is some kind of noise\ambient contraption. I am not sure about the chain, but guess that the spring makes a rather eerie sound.
7:24 My guess would be that the toggle switches are indeed for coil splitting. There are 5 humbucker pickups and 5 toggle switches. The knobs are probably configured the same as a Les Paul. Each pickup has a volume and a tone knob. There are 2 rows of 5 knobs each. I think that allows you to mix all pickups however you like :)
I also dig the Les Paul with the P90, strat single, mini humbucker and finally the paf in the neck position. I also like the dual 3way switches. The LP Deluxe paddle comes in 2nd place. What breaks my heart is the guitars chosen to modify. Why not a "Hondo" LP. Not a real LP custom. I would imagine the players that did these mods were incredible virtuoso guitar masters.
This is my current project: th-cam.com/video/oCcDR7PTUrw/w-d-xo.html
This is going to be a very flexible instrument. It will be able to sound acoustic, have several electric guitar flavors and then it will also have an onboard pre-amp to proide distortion, clean sounds, etc.
I switched the 3-way toggle for a blend pot but I can:
- use the 5 way the standard way (bridge, b+m, middle, m+n, neck)
- use 1 push-pull to coil-split the GFS pickup, so you can get a single coil sound
- use the second push pull to merge the neck to the bridge pickup
and I leave the stereo jack as a power disconnect, so when I plug a mono jack, the ring and sleeve contacts of the female jack connect, connecting the battery to the artec module.
Here's a list of the components:
Neck pickup: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XQQ1JVY/
Middle pickup: www.guitarfetish.com/KP--GFS-Pro-Tube-Liptstick-Humbucker-Chimey-Tone-Gold--Kwikplug%E2%84%A2-Ready_p_21837.html
Bridge pickup: www.seymourduncan.com/pickup/pearly-gates-bridge
Piezo pickup/Bridge: www.sporthitech.com/schaller-germany-gtm-tune-o-matic-bridge-with-piezo-nickel/
Grover tuners: www.guitarfetish.com/Full-Size-Gold-Grover-Imperial-styled-Machines_p_9240.html
5-way switch www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RAKX1WW/
3-way toggle switch (yes it has both!) www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00G8IVDJU/
Vol & Tone pots: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071KD6C8B/
FX Pot: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007XIW07S/
Nut: fixturesmusicalinstruments.com/2019/03/usa-made-axemasters-compensated-brass-nut-for-fender-guitar-earvana-alternate/
Strings: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00L1LM5UU/
Strap lock: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JRCMBM8/
Thumb Rest: www.dadsoletackle.com/abu-garcia-96458-b67-b78-ambassadeur-6000-series-t.html
Inspiration: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TXLJPRQ/
Hell yeah!! bloody watched the whole thing sooooo amaze lmao
A bit late, but the crowded Strat you very briefly showed seemed interesting. Granted, I love having a million different knobs and switches on mine, but that seemed a bit more well done than the rest.
1st one's a Washburn (as has been said), and the "modded Jaguar" is a Jazzmaster :-)
No. The modded one is a piece of shit
@@jcripp7974 - You've played that one? :-)
I like how positive you are. Some of the cheaper guitars, why not? Go nuts. The first one would be great for like a mood ambiance, horror themed, metal, or something,... band. You could probably get all kinds of cool reverb effects out of the springs and chains and harps. But the more expensive one's,... just why?
All of those guitars must have excellent neck dive.
4:08 😂😂 what must have been going though his head.
Fender Jazzmaster at 04:32. Most tragic to me was the Gibson Les Paul Deluxe. Such great LPs with those mini-humbuckers! The LP of choice for Duane Allman if I recall correctly.
7:24 I'd imagine it started life as some sort of Explorer-like guitar and the switches are probably on/off for each of the pickups. I also think the knobs are probably just independent volume and tone knobs
*The "harp" guitar pictured at the **0:22** mark was originally a Washburn Stage A Series guitar, either from the original run from 80'-85', or the one year they reissued it, 96', or at least a copy of one...*
The first one looks like an attempt at making an electric sitar. Those extra strings might be there to ring sympathetically to create that droning sound.
The oddest I've seen was a Strat where the owner wound his own single coil pickup. Instead of winding the bobbin, he wound each pole piece individually, and then gave each pole it's own separate output Jack. He used the normal Strat recessed steel Jack, so there were 6 of them peppered on the top.
They actually worked, and as unsightly as it looked, I could actually see finding a use for a guitar like this. Whatever the use will surely be very niche; maybe using it for a film soundtrack, or running various poles to different effects, say; the G to a wah, the D/A/ low-E to some synth effect, etc. After that however I think you'd be left with little more than a conversation starter.
First model is a Washburn A model. Really well made and great sounding guitars!
I'd love to hear them all but, the lefty les Paul and the one with multiple instruments on it.
The strat with the giant fender logo on it is indeed a squier. In the circular part of the headstock you can see the "Affinity series" logo stamped on it. That there be a good guitar for the low end market.
That strat with the double springs was a thing in the early 2000s. I seem to remember an article in stewmac about building one. Supposed to have nearly infinite sustain.
Didn't work that well I suppose?
I like the lefthanded model and the first one!!! Damn great!!
"The map is in my boot. The microfilm is in my tooth. The combination to the airlock is 1-2-3-4. I will tell you anything but please don't make me watch that video ever again!"
We had a song in one of my bands that used a banjo as an intro. I took an acoustic guitar pick up and duct taped it to the back of the head and ran it into a DI box then tuner as a kill. Worked great live.
In fact, if one of those would have been a couple of times in hands of Gilmour, the resale value would have reached the million...
I wish to be alive to see the resale value of the original "Frankenstrat" and its sister, the MiJ "Explorer" copy from Ibanez, the "Destroyer" (which is, in fact, the one EVH used to use a lot to record rhythm parts of their debut album).
At 7:15 I would say a series of individual volumes and tones. One set for each pickup. Same for toggle switches. Switch probably turn on or off individual pickup. Then you pick the sound you want by choosing or combining the PU's. That's my guess anyway.
Do you know a Burt Trogly, he was into acoustics, he's outta Pelham Georgia
9:10 Add one more use for JB Weld...lol
Square Hammer you can’t string that guitar anymore.
8:53 - "It's a little horrifying -- but, hey, you can't blame the guy for trying." THE HELL I CAN'T
If I had to choose (eurgh) I'd rock the ML-looking thing. The control layout looks confusing at first, but once you count the knobs it becomes obvious... each of the single-size pups has a 3-way mini-switch that splits the coil or runs the full pickup (as to which combinations of which pickups will be in phase, I have no idea), then there's a vol and and tone for each of the five pups... 10 in total
My dad actually tried to epoxy the tremolo system of his squier strat.
"Put some beef on it..." HA! I lost it on that one. But seriously though, it looks like they used a chuck roast, when for that application a tougher cut like bottom round would probably have been better.
I like the classical style upgrade idea. I own a 71-73 gold top deluxe, can't imagine cutting it up like that even if it did reduce the weight.
First one is a Washburn A-5 Stage Series Reissue. I got one and I love it, although I modified it myself. But PU's only
2:54 Not Ernie Ball Strings, they have a uniform colored ball end. The strings on this particular guitar are most likely D’Addario or Rotosounds who have colored ball ends.
I actually love the shape of that modded Jaguar.
This video has reminded me of some horrifying images that were doing the rounds on the internet a few years ago. It was a right to left hand conversion on an original burst and had been executed horribly. It also gets me thinking of marc bolans famous 58' les paul that had about 3 neck swaps.
Thanks Trill!!!!! Rock on!!!
Some how I contained my laughter very well up until the point I saw the electrician wall switch-a-roo mod.
7:30 looks like on off switches for each pickup, and a volume/tone for each pickup. That’s how I would handle the wiring anyway.
the light switch could actually look very cool imo XD 2:09
The first guitar is an early/mid 80s Washburn. Carlos Cavazzo played one.
That Dean ML looking beast with the five pickups would be an interesting ride! Oh, and I'd have to guess that the absurd array of knobs are for individual volume and tone for each pickup...because why just do a master vol/tone setup when you can go totally apeshit with the routing and wiring, am I right? lol, great vid!
:40 Ibanez Iceman with the lower horn broken off?
no... that's not it.
Wassup with the whammy on the classical. You didn't even mention that lol
I never thought there would be such a thing as a cursed guutar
The first one was intended as a diy take on the old choral sitars with some added stuff for flavor.
3:35 im not the most experienced but i could build one of those looks like they wired it to be like two separate les pauls in one body the harder part would be the routing
For hardtailing a whammy. All you need to do is wedge a small block of wood between the back side of tail(whatever thats called), and loosen the claw screws. The 40-50 lbs of string tension will hold the bridge solid. To remove the block, just tighten the claw screws. Find a piece of wood that's the right thickness to keep the bridge level. I do this with my Floyd Rose. Always remove the whammy bar when doing this.
I have a few things to add. The PRS with a huge wedge cut out. Rather than making the guitar lighter, they were probably trying remake an Ibanez rbm1.
And the guitar with the five pickups and five toggle switches. The toggle switches are probably wired off, on, split and the knobs are obviously one volume and one tone. They're even paired off five and five.
You could have titled this video " WTF were they thinking? ". Hahaha, thanks for sharing!
The original title was going to be "26 Guitar Mods You HAVE to see!" but I thought it was too click-baitish haha. Thanks for watching!
John Mayall is known for chopping his guitars about - if you look at the cover of Diary Of A Band (vols 1 or 2 - it's the same front cover) he's holding a guitar which at one time may have been a Burns, but I have to say it looks rather marvellous, and he has another, which you can find if you Google "John Mayall's Guitars" which looks to have been a standard Strat at one time...
The 1st one was awesome. I think the person who built it was trying to make a Electric Guitar-Sitar hybrid and just overdid it
9:16 That actually looks like a great shape for an acoustic, it would be really comfy to play classical style. If only it was meant to be that way.
I thought that first Frankenguitsteiner thing was maybe somebody's attempt at making an electric sitar. Definitely interesting.