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Mike Chase
My tele has been a work in progress for many years, starting out as a standard single coil college project. However, a while back I decided that it needed a major overhaul and so decided to create a tele-deluxe style beast. The home-made neck was replaced with a strat neck. The body which is a solid piece of ash has been contoured considerably more than you'd expect on a tele, although retaining the overall shape and finally finished with Tru-oil. I've dropped in a couple of Irongear Hammerheads, and replaced the hardware with a chrome T-style bridge and chrome neck pick-up surround. To compliment the chunky black Hammerheads I've added black control knobs. Inside I've got the full Mr Page style wiring for maximum pickup combination and drive. Overall not your standard telecaster!
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Added: 23/06/10
Terry Robinson
I have attached some photos of a guitar I built for my guitar tutor. I am a mature student at 55 a little bit of a late starter. I am a much better engineer than a musician lol.
This was the second one I made, when the tutor saw the first he wanted to buy it but I decided to keep it and make this much better one. It uses a Blues Engine pickup, as you can see in the neck position, also your gold bridge, strap buttons, and electrics.
It sounds great and attracts a lot of attention.
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Added: 14/08/10
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Mason Crisp
This VS6 was my first guitar, but got neglected when I went through a metal phase. Dad revamped it just for fun, to give it a progressive vibe. It was good stock, but it’s great now: a new character to inspire new writing/playing.
The bridge is an Alchemist 90: my first “P90”. The neck is a black Rolling Mill with nickel pole-pieces and a series/parallel push-pull tone pot. Conventional wisdom has them the other way round, but if a P90 bridge is good enough for Messrs Oldfield, Howe and West, it’s good enough for me. Bright bridge, warm neck: very versatile, 3 good positions. (Radically different heights to equalize the volume levels though.)The original knobs are too tapered to pull up: we used large and small just to be different. Great guitar thanks to Axetec? Hell yeah!
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Added: 30/08/10
Simon Burrows
The 'Frank'n'Stien" started life as a poor, no, woeful Squier Affinity Strat. I bought it because the neck was straight and I thought I could tart it up and sell it for a profit.
However, I found myself without any music, on a family holiday, and salvation came in the form of a copy of Van Halen's "Best Of Both Worlds" CD. That got me thinking! Pretty soon I had quite a nice little single pick-up "super Strat". I came across your website and ordered a "Hot Slag".What a transformation!
The paint job is a first class custom nitro job), and what a guitar! It's my #1 gigging axe. The action is very low and the tone pure class of '78. Like I said £130. I can't explain it. It just hangs together 'right'.
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Added: 12/10/10
Terry Robinson
A few pics of my latest build to put in the gallery. As you can see I have fitted a pair of Jailhouse rails and your pots,cap and treble compensation circuit. It sounds great, hope you like it.
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Added: 12/10/10
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Tom Ashman
Les Paul- I've changed the pickups and some features in my Epi' Les Paul Custom using exclusively Axetec products. It has a Blues Engine neck and Dirty Torque bridge and both are a huge improvement on the fuzzy, noisy epiphone stock p-ups, and help to give a more creamy Gary Moore/Thin lizzy tone. I would strongly recommend Axetec products especially the IronGear pick-up range.
Strat- I bought this bullet strat for next to nothing and decided to do it up.I got a set of Pig Irons and they are absolutely phnomenal for the price. I set them into the red tortoise shell scratchplate and added some cream coloured accesories (tone knobs) etc to give it a 50's rock n roll kind of feel. I plan to put a new maple neck on it as the current fretboard is a bit scratchy.
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Added: 11/01/11
Glenn Merton
Hi, This is a Tele I put together using Steel Foundry pickups. The body is a two piece ash with a maple neck 12 inch radius. CTS 250 potts 22 cap. The bridge and machine heads are Wilkinson. The guitar plays and sounds fantastic, I would put it up with my USA 52 reissue Tele.
Thanks again for the brill pickups (they even impressed a friend of mine who is a die hard Fender man) regards Glenn Tyne & Wear
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Added: 12/01/11
Sean Crockett
Bought this Les Paul as a gutted and rather knocked about project off eBay - but when it arrived I found out it was a custom built LP from the 80's with a straight through neck; the seller told me he'd bought it without pickups/hardware etc. from Chandler's in the early 1980's, which suggests it may have been made in their workshops but never completed.
Anyway, I decided I quite liked the authentic relicing, and just decided to build it up into working LP - I had planned to sell it, but it plays so well & the IronGear Hot Slag & Rolling Mill pickups sound so good -I just can't bring myself to let it go now!!!!
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Added: 20/02/11
Massimo L.
After 9 months of work I finally finished my baby! I decided to build this guitar for my friend Saul, a true talent of the guitar. He already has a beautiful Gibson Les Paul Classic, but to give an alternative and for fun I built this style Les Paul. Purple and black colors as those in the group where he plays (Lethal Poison). This "girl" was built from raw wood (mahogany and maple body and top, mahogany and rosewood for the neck and keyboard, I am satisfied with the materials purchased on Axetec, especially the pickups (IronEngine Gear Blues) black color, great sound, mechanical Traditional style, lovely"snot-green" 3 +3 heads tulip, LP-Style Orange Drop Wiring Kit, LP Style Tailpiece,LP-Style Bridge Style 01 chrome. You just have to play it but for this I am sure that “Saul Devil” will put to the very hard test.
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Added: 05/04/11
Peter Mason
Pictures of my new Rolling Mills. I bought this Burns when they first came out but didn't like the factory fitted tremolo as it wasn't accurate to the original, so I bought another BHM Guitar and modified that to be more in keeping with Dr May's "Red Special", including a more accurate trem and bridge (pictured). Now I had two guitars with single coils so I modified this Burns with the electrics from a 1998 Epiphone LP as a fun project. I made a new 3mm acrylic scratch plate to house the Epi PAF's, and a little routing on the guitar was needed, I also used a LP type control layout for my controls too, more recently I decided the old Epi PAF's had to go. This new layout is totally interchangeable with the old Burns as all the fixing holes line up and by un/re soldering the jack plug wires I can revert back to "as was" in minutes.
I call this guitar my "Red Lester" as an affectionate nod to Brian May and Mr Les Paul himself.
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Added: 05/04/11
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Paul Waring
I thought you might like these photos of a custom guitar we did with two Jailhouse Rails and a Pig Iron.
The Rails sounded great on their own, I tapped them in positions 2 & 4 which gave me fabulous Strat "quack".
We (at the shop) have been making our own custom guitars. We take a good budget guitar e.g. A Chord Stratocaster change the pickups, upgrade the hardware and give them a thorough set-up. I have been using your pickups on these guitars and from now on will be using your machine heads.
Wishing you continued success.
Paul Waring, George's Music Store
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Added: 17/09/11
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Dan Crisp
This was a Nevada Strat in a slightly sorry state when I got it – but good an’ heavy, with a rich looking trans finish. I perked her up with an Axetec HH scratchplate, toggle switch, nut, gold string trees and a pair of IronGear Hot Slags. She came out looking real nice: better than my ability to capture on film.
“The best Strat copy I’ve ever seen” – a Stratophile.
She has a unique “split personality”: I modified the 5-way blade switch to configure the pickups in any combination of humbucker and single coil. So you can set her up as an HH, SH, SS, HS or HH guitar (again). Then the 3-way toggle flicks between the pre-configured pickups in the usual way.
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Added: 30/09/11
Richard Crate
Heres some pictures of a stratocaster project I have just completed. The idea was to try and recreate the look of Dave Gilmours 'Blackstrat'. I started off with a Squier strat and removed everything except the bridge. I then put on a nice new neck and a set of IronGear Pig Irons on a new scratchplate and wiring kit also supplied by yourself.
The guitar includes a switch for adding the neck pickup to the bridge or bridge/middle pickup as well as a phase switch on the middle.
Im really happy with the result and especially the sound from the pickups which are a massive improvement on the stock Squiers.
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Added: 11/11/11
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