Mascot

Most likely. I haven't looked at any schematics for it YET, but from what I imagine, it should be fairly easy. You do need the 9V battery for the power source.

Call me crazy, but this might work. http://www.smallbearelec.com/Detail.bok?no=20

You could put that under the pup, even though its a footpedal switch, and apply the external 9V to it. When you push the pup down, it lights up. Bah, probably too hard to do, but that would kick so much ass.

mnbaseball91

^I don't get it. Does it light up blue when you push down on it? That might actually be cool. Would I be able to run two of those off a single 9 volt battery?

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Hmm, okay, think of the switches on pedals. You see how when you step on it, the LED at the top of the pedal lights up? Now imagine the switch under your pup. When you press the pup down, the LED (s) under the pup will light up ( although no effects will come in ). Get it? Although I don't know if you can adjust the pressure it takes to activate the switch. If not, then you might have to press pretty hard to activate the LED's, and the switch might screw up the grounding and whatever, but it is from an external source, so probably not.

Look at me ramble on. . .

mnbaseball91

I see how it works. I'm not sure I want to be pushing on the pickups though. I'll see what I feel like when I'm done laquering. This afternoon I'll finish up with the sanding sealer (trying to empy out the whole can).

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Also, when I got the body from Warmoth, there was a wire looped through two of the tunnels going out of the control cavity. I just assumed they used it for measuring or something. I went to pull it out before I began spraying and realized it was attatched to something on one end. I also realized there were four tunnels from the cavity but only three pickup routs (and the wire goes through the fourth). It's going in the direction of the bridge - is it safe to assume it's a ground wire?

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Calum_Barrow

^ where does it go? im confised by your description. if its goes into the body, then itll most probably be a ground wire, but it could be used to hang the guitar when painting it (if its finished). a pic would help a lot BTW.

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It goes into the body in the direction of the bridge studs. I don't know what it could be other than a ground wire.

Speaking of pictures, I'm about to try to upload some to photobucket. Brace yourselves...

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Mascot

I'm excited. I love these things.

I don't really see you hanging the guitar from the routing area, as I would imagine it might not balance too well, but I guess it's fine when there's no neck.

As for the pup>LED idea, I agree since pushing on the pups isn't that convinient. I'm just trying to suggest clever ways to turn the LEDs on, instead of a boring switch next to the knobs or something. I guess if not the push-pup idea, the other choice would be a push-pull pot, although I don't know if you could put a external LED and battery source to a push-pull pot. It would probably affect the circuitry of the pups too.

Anyone got any ideas aside from a on-off switch? On-off just seems so. . .uncustomized to me.

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PICTURES! (I hope someone other than Mascot actually sees these!)

After pre-dying the top black (it looked much better in reality):


After sanding off the black:


After rubbing on green dye:


After rubbing on blue dye (scarry moment):

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The back after applying grain filler:


The neck before alteration:


The body after sanding down the grain filler:


Everything laid out:

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The headstock after attempting to screen print my signature onto it. The paint I used actually melted through the screen, so I used some laquer thinner to clean it up. As you can see, the laquer thinner did what it was supposed to do - resulting in a discolored splotch where it removed some of the sanding sealer:


The screen I used:


The headstock after I fixed everything up and sprayed a couple coatsof laquer:


Attempting to get the pickups attached to the mounting rings:


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I just finished spraying the first coat of laquer on the body. It really deepens the color.

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MetalUpTheAss

That looks really nice!!

I like the color.. that's a beaut... and pictures are always good.

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acdc101

Wow, you did a great job on the finish, and the headstock turned out suprisingly good, wasn't looking good at first sight of the headstock.

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Thanks all.

I just checked on the body. I know I said before that the laquer deepened the color, but it's getting even better as it dries.

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CorduroyEW

Looks great. You do really clean work. I can't wait to see what it looks like when it dries.

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Mascot

Holy crap that looks so nice. After you finish it, it'll look even better, when it's in the light and and shiny and whatnot.

That first picture scared me, because it looked horrible.

Then I looked at the others ones and I've always loved bursted flamed tops. As far as they headstock, could you make it more clean-cut? It just looks really messy and doesn't seem to look that great.

So, give us an update. Did you go with the Lace Sensor, Alnico II, and Super Distortion? Or did you change in the middle? I don't remember you saying any changes, although I could be wrong.

I think I would've liked to see the same finish on the headstock as the body, but that's just me.

Great work!

Asocial

****in sweet dude. i lov eit, the burst looks good, but it could be a tad smoother imo. dont like the headstock name either, its to bulky.

but i like it in general

~hypermonkey~

wow thats awsome good work!!

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metallikatt

AWESOME!!! love the finish. the overall design reminds me of a shecter. pretty sweeeet