Hi - all - this is a follow up to my original NGD post about this guitar. A £30 carcass from Ebay basically, and not really in any condition to restore to factory. It's taken me about 6 months to decide on a colour, or whether to try and strip it back, eventually I went with grey primer - mainly because it was cheap and I've seen a Charvel done like it which I thought was very cool.
the original hardware was long gone but luckily the pick guard was still there - scratched and worn but basically sound.
So I've replaced pretty much everything apart from the carcass - the bridge is a Wilkinson Vintage type with a big steel block. tuners are Vanson disc locking types with roller trees. Pickups are an Irongear Rolling Mill in the bridge and a Tonerider Hot 52 tele neck pickup (just cos I could and I haven't seen another like it - why does no-one use Tele pickups on anything apart from Teles?) - The Rolling Mill is coil tapped on a push pull pot.
I stripped the nasty black finish of the neck and relaquered it in tinted nitro too - feels much better IMHO.
Anyway - after putting it together and setting it up , it's a belter great sounds too theTele andsingle coil in combination is really sweet and teh Humbucker is ascreamer
Happy. happy. happy.
I think it's pretty cool and I'm glad I managed to rescue it.
The first pic below is the before .....
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