Custom & Modified

Samick Ultramatic

...this guitar is original except the pickups' change...
...so, it refers to prs style..
...with features...

• Mahogany double cutaway body
• Bound mahogany set neck
• Nut width 1 5/8”
• Rosewood fingerboard (12” radius)
• Dot inlay
• 22 fret, 24 ¾” scale
• Chrome hardware
• Grover™ A102C, 14:1 ratio tuners
• Stop tailpiece with adjustable bridge
• Dual humbucker pickups
• 1 volume, 1 tone control
• 3-way selector switch

...so, i changed the pckups with the gibson burstbuckers pro... ...and the pot knobs as an aesthetic change...

                         

Samick Superstrat Artist Series 

KR 660 hss end of '90's

...except than this guitar is my favourite...

• Body: Alder
• Neck: Maple
• Fretboard: Rosewood
• Controls: 5-Way Lever with Push/Pull Coil Tapping
• Frets: 24 Med/Jumbo
• Fretboard Inlays: Boomerang
• Bridge: Licensed Samick Floyd Rose
 
...the only thing i did was to restore it...
...from a vere bad condition...
...in all the levels...
...changin' pots, wiring, jack, screws...the floyd rose tremolo bridge  changed with a china one before the gutar come to me, a lot of pity because the samick floyd is a lot better than this one but i may change it with an original floyd rose sometime..with the changes of screws, pads etc..,is stable and stays in tune...
 
..the artwork is coming from Hag Art...

                                                                                         

...the bat...

...the bat is a project that refers to superstrat guitars...
...it consists of a two pieces alder body, a very thin and fast maple - rosewood neck, a pair of jackson hb pickups, black hardwear and tuners and only one pot - the volume pot with some modification...
...as for the name, i think....

...the highway one...

...the highway one project  is a true  vintage stratocaster project with  an alder body, a maple - rosewood neck, old korean hardwear, kluson tuners and the  fender 57 - 62 pickups...
...well, this is the end of the highway one project...
...about the name, a cousin of mine 35 years ago brought me from Virginia a hand made by an old American man, scratch remover called highway one...the best i know till now...
...i worked the scratched body of this guitar with the last amount of this material i had and does not exist any more...
...and something about the leather up on the body... i put it there to make the body more comfortable for the hand and keep it dry from sweating...

...after 6 months i changed the keys with kluson closed type, the pickguard and left the pickups naked...

...restorations of legends...vol4...

...this is all about restorations of old guitars...

...from the last six months of 2015

...some of them in a very bad condition...

                                                                                ...enjoy it...

Gibson Les Paul 

Studio 50s Tribute

 

 

 ...a perfect guitar in bad condition...on wiring and the neck...                 

 

  ...look at manufacturer's specs...

http://www.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/Les-Paul/Gibson-USA/Les-Paul-Studio-50s-Tribute.aspx

                                                                                             

                                                           ...think it's a beauty...

Aria Pro II SL 1988-1990

...this guitar is the first SL model that came to my hands wih an alder  body...
...all the others Korean from 80's are made of plywood in the after Matsamocu period...
...the guitar has an excellent maple neck to play funk or chordie style from country to jazz, fat and very comfortable...instead of the look of the guitar which refers to superstrat style  the guitar is truely vintage with a very clean and brilliant sound....
...all parts are original except the wiring and the five way switch that had destroyed..
 ...the guitar had to play for about 20 years...

...it plays perfect....

 

 

Epiphone special middle '90's

...after the japan made epiphone guitars and for few generations made in korea, the only korean construction in epi was all about the woods...
...all the other levels, hardwear, wiring, pickups etc. and the final setup was made in usa, as it was written on the back of the headstock..
...these guitars have to do nothing with the other epiphone guitars that they completely made in the east...
...like the one in the picture, a simple 23 years old epi special, plays and sounds like no other..