Shockwave

1st build ever – Stratocaster custom

Canadian Maple Body, 920D electronics, 250k pots, Single Coil Texas Vintage pickups, reverse headstock neck, locking tremolo.

Sounds like the 70s punk rock scene, maybe it is the wood paneling look?

Shinigami

Custom Stratocaster

Swamp Ash body, 920D electronics with 500K Pots, Seymour Duncan Hot Rails pickups, Wilkinson locking tuners, Pure Tone jack.

This guitar shreds, it sounds so smooth and full of tone. Some nice lead tones and crystal clear!

Godzilla

Custom Telecaster

Alder Body, 920D electronics with 250k pots, Fender bridge and tuners, Seymour Duncan Antiquity pickups.

A work horse, slowly becoming my favorite guitar for a classic tone.

Optimus

Custom Firebird

African Mahogany Body, Tone Bakery wiring and Firebird pickups, Wilkinson locking tuners.

It gets a nice and bluesy rock almost like a My Heads in Mississippi vibe.

Les Paul Scorpion

Retrofit Epiphone Les Paul

Totally gutted this Les Paul 100, all new custom wiring, 500k pots, new selector jack, Seymour Duncan Phat Cat Neck and DiMarzio Super Distortion Bridge pickups.

Sounds like a beast, has a large sound with a little pluck to it. Easily goes holds its own against more expensive Les Paul models after these upgrades.

Natural

Custom Custom – 1st fully custom build

Body is from 2 reclaimed dining room tables, Mahagony and Cherry woods. All custom wiring with 500k pots, Puretone input jack, Seymour Duncan, P-Rail Pickups (with full splits), Wilkinson EZ Lok Tuners.

This one has such a unique sound, kind of like if a Les Paul mated with a Jazzmaster while messing around with an Archtop. Excels with rhythm tones.

Jabberwocky

Custom Stratocaster – 1st pour paint body

Basswood body, Custom wiring with 500k pots and individual pick up selectors and push pull for phase selection. EMG neck, Seymour Duncan SSL 5 middle and Rail Hammer Chisel Bridge pickups, Wilkinson locking tuners, Fender Mexican Strat bridge.

This is like the swiss army knife of guitars, you can get so many different sounds from it, the out of phase sounds are quite interesting.

Pe Po 7

Retrofit of a 1970s Russian Formanta

Totally gutted with the exception of the pickups to keep some of the original sound profile. Used custom wiring and 250k pots with switches from Home Depot, Added an on/off power switch in place of the fried out effects unit that was inside. Brand new steel knobs with a custom made double bridge. New Wilkinson tuners and Pure tone input jack.

Sounds like a fuzzed out Beatles record. Not sure if this is the final version of this yet as i am not loving the sound. I have some other ideas i may bake into this one yet.

Squier Blue

Retrofitted Squier Affinity

Gutted this of all the crappy Squier electronics down to even the selector switches. Added new custom wiring with 500k pots and humbucker series/parallel switch, Bare Knuckle True grit neck, Seymour Duncan Cool Rails Middle, Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder bridge pickups, Fender tuners and fender mexican strat bridge.

This was pretty much a really cheap guitar I got used to just see if i could get this concept to work. And does it, what a beautifully gritty growl. It is a little weak clean, but man can this thing cook distorted. The middle position humbucker can be split, series or parallel to cook up different levels of sound. It isn’t super versatile, but I love the grungy energy. In the future I may swwap out the Cool Rails for a Hot Rails to see if that cleans up the stale clean tones, but as is I dig it.

Stardust

Custom Off-set Guitar

Kind of a Jazzmaster/ Jaguar/ Mustang ish body I found someone made online. They were selling it because they couldn’t find parts to fit the body they cut out. So of course, I said challenge excepted! I cut my own pick guard and used a slim strat bridge paired with a tune-o-matic to get the strings aligned properly. I had to use les paul wiring schematics and try to fit in the telecaster groove they had cut. I used new 500k pots and the old selector switch from the Les Paul 100 I took apart. The Bill Lawrence L500 in the neck and the Seymour Duncan Distortion in the bridge give this guitar such rich full sound. The Wilkinson locking tuners keep this in tune even after playing rough with it.

This guitar has cajónes! Such a full rich sound! It was a pain to get put together, but this thing rocks!

Pending Jagmaster custom

Mashing up a Jaguar and a Jazzmaster in Fire Engine Red! Also putting in an extra switch for pickup options.

Black Gold

Working on a Frankenstein! This stratocaster body will have Gold foil pickup, Phat Cat P90 and a Gretch pickup all in it!