Fixing up my long suffering Peavey T-15 guitar.

[Saiyaman]

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My gear back in 1995, my Peavey and my Squier are both still in my possession albeit both extensively modified.

This Peavey, originally sunburst, had been my mutt for years, I did everything one isn't supposed to do to a guitar to that guitar, the graphic and name it got from my favorite science fiction comic series.
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The Peavey's original neck got damaged beyond repair at one point and I replaced it by crudely putting a neck of a Hondo Strat on it and gave it a Les Paul Junior treatment by taking out the neck pickup. At one time I made it into an eight string, doubling the D and G strings by adding two tuners at the headstock.
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Note the holes in the headstock where the two extra tuners sat.
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This picture also shows the flaking of the black lacquer.

I later replaced the wrap around bridge with a cut off three barrel tele bridge (Top loader) and replaced the pickguard and installed a neck pickup again. But it still looked and sounded a mess.
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So a couple of days ago, I decided to properly restore that guitar and I began stripping it but leaving my graphic intact. The old black paint and the original sunburst underneath came off easily but the poly on the Hondo neck was different matter. I also bought some pickguard material to make a neat pickguard from.
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The guitar stripped and with the posts of where the wrap around tail sat filled. And the freshly cut pickguard in place. It'll return to having just the bridge pickup although, I'm still not sure about that I might give it a neck pickup.
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The headstock with the holes where the extra tuners sat filled. I'm planning to give this the classic Peavey pinstripe with a script that says "Yoko" instead of Peavey.

 

[RodenAddison]

Cool. Never get rid of a guitar you'll be sorry, trust me. I once sold a Guild D55 for $800. I was wrong! I mean, how important is rent anyway.

But! I have something for you to look at.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6lbTAu-Xdw&feature=related

Personally, I like a standard guitar but this looks interesting to me. My guess though is, could be lots to go wrong.

I'm not crazy about Line6 quality when it comes to equipment, but I'd love to have a look at one of these.

 

[Handley_Page]

I look forward ot seeing the results.

 

[RodenAddison]

I have a pair of good bass pickups hanging around here somewhere ... and a plank.

 

[Saiyaman]

Well it has been some time since I updated this and thanks to some personal business I completely forgot to take pictures of the whole thing but here's where we are now.

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As these pictures show, the cut-off Tele bridge is a bit too wide and both E strings are at the very edge of the blade of the pickup. I should look for a bridge with adjustable string spacing to make it work. The neck pickup is a Dimarzio HS-3 but it doesn't really compliment that super hot bridge pickup so I might switch it to something more complimentary later.

The guitar has been finished in several layers of black and clear giving it the appearance it has now, and despite my efforts to cover them up properly, the dowels of where the wrap around tail sat are still visible.

It sounds very Stratty as in "QUACK" something you wouldn't expect to get from a two pickup guitar, I probably wired the pickups out of phase but the resulting sound is quite pleasing.

I still need to wet sand the finish and buff it and take care of some other stuff that needs to be done but all in all it's been a good success.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Way back when I was in a proto-trash college band called Truman and the Drag Queens, me and a sculptor friend took an old Teisco guitar, covered it in glue and dipped into a feather pillow. We let it dry and then sprayed it DayGlo pink.

When you'd play it, feathers would fly off, and the harder you played, the more it would shed till the air was filled with DayGlo feathers. It looked like you were either fucking or strangling a giant chicken or maybe both. The guitar itself sounded like crap, but no one noticed. This was back in the late '60's, and no one had seen such a thing. People just stared.

I've done a bunch of rebuilding and modifying in my time, but my favorite was the guitar I made from a piece of butcher block left over from my parents' kitchen renovation. I cut the dado for the neck myself and attached a neck from a broken Harmony, with absolutely no idea of what I was doing. By some miracle I got angle just right and the action was amazing. The thing played like a dream and the weight of that butcher block gave it incredible sustain.

Then someone left it lying on a bed at a party and it slid off, right onto the peghead. Snapped like a matchstick.