"Why did you do it? Why did you do this thing to me?"

[MechaBulletBill]

...what's with the strap button down there?!

think it's flipped for a lefty

[sal paradise]

1974 Les Paul Custom

[Pacafeliz]

Yahoooo

[tqi]

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[DrippyReverbTremolo]

Save me Jebus.

[will]

That Gibson reminded me of Pat's Telecaster - all hollow on the inside!

That doesn't look too bad. Compare that to Super Stumpy.

I sure as hell wouldn't pay that money for it, but someone skilled should be able to clean up that route, and with a bit of cnc cunning, machine an exact plug to restore it. Someone very skilled could probably do it by hand. Will? How's your budget this month?

Especially with an opaque finish... look, you all know what I'm about.



You'd never be able to tell!

[will]

Very simple to remedy, but seeing this item on eBay made me giggle:

[X-Ray Spex]

Just why, awful hack job on a beautiful piece of Kramer history.

At least you could maybe refin it?

[Pacafeliz]

Just why, awful hack job on a beautiful piece of Kramer history.

At least you could maybe refin it?

what the FUCK man????!!!

Somebody tried to actually kill it and stab it with a knife or what?!

[JVG]

Very simple to remedy, but seeing this item on eBay made me giggle:

This is hilarious!

I guess you could route out a cavity from the back of the guitar, and operate the vibrato with your hip?

[Pacafeliz]

This is hilarious!

I guess you could route out a cavity from the back of the guitar, and operate the vibrato with your hip?

dude it'd look like you're humping the guitar while it wails...
Actually, not a bad idea

[sal paradise]

First entry for a scratchplate? Not even vintage. The mind boggles. Unless you’re in a wedding band, I guess. In that case, an overly complex nonsense would begin to make sense …



EBay linky

[ldp54002]

First entry for a scratchplate? Not even vintage. The mind boggles. Unless you’re in a wedding band, I guess. In that case, an overly complex nonsense would begin to make sense …



EBay linky

I'll own up to making abominations like that in my day. I once build a parts Strat with triple humbuckers and a Floyd Rose. Each of the pickups was wired to toggles for split, series/parallel and out of phase. My wife called it the "most extra" guitar I've ever had.

To paraphrase Ian Malcolm, I built it more because I could, not because I should.

[GilmourD]

First entry for a scratchplate? Not even vintage. The mind boggles. Unless you’re in a wedding band, I guess. In that case, an overly complex nonsense would begin to make sense …



EBay linky

I'll own up to making abominations like that in my day. I once build a parts Strat with triple humbuckers and a Floyd Rose. Each of the pickups was wired to toggles for split, series/parallel and out of phase. My wife called it the "most extra" guitar I've ever had.

To paraphrase Ian Malcolm, I built it more because I could, not because I should.

Honestly, I actually don't see a problem with that pickguard. It's versatile. The P-Rails have three distinct sounds by design (full humbucker, P90 coil, rail coil) without even considering parallel and internal phasing. Not sure what the third switch is for since the Vintage Rails isn't splitable

[MrFingers]

Probably a master-switch that allows you to add the neck or bridge pickup to any sound already blended by the 5-way switch. So it allows you to do all 3 pickups together, or neck+bridge together which you normally can't do on a Strat.