To mod or not

[lotsa80sgtrs]

Hello. I have an 85 SD pointy maple neck with a Kahler.
Problem is the Kahler is well, a Kahler and the 1 hum is not
versatile enough for the kind of music the band plays (I need a front pick up). Personally, I want to play this thing
and am thinking of modding it. (Floyd bridge/nut/back route and front pick up route). Getting the work done by a more than compotent repair dude is no problem. I have a lot of
other guitars that fit the bill but I bought this one to play. What do you think ? Would I be doing the wrong
thing by modding this awesome piece of the 80's ?

Thanks and I really enjoy the site.

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[kmanick]

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I've got an 83 San Dimas Pointy Head Bengal and when I asked this same question everyone here basically ripped me a new a-hole. It's you guitar so you can do what you want but these are so far and few between, why mod a piece of history? go get a GMW replica or a Wayne guitar, or better yet one of the new charvels, (Oh this by the way is what everyone said to me and after sitting on it for a while... well they are absolutely right.) don't mod it.

[Chuckracer]

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And there ya have it!

[toejam]

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If it's a player and you plan on keeping it in your possession, I say mod it to what you like. I think Kahlers suck and prefer Floyds anyway.

[wulfe13]

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I wouldn't mod it! Use something else... or use different guitars for different songs.

[quiksilver]

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You'll be sorry in the long run if you mod it.

[BLOOD SPLATTER]

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There were only so many originals & some of them are gone forever because they were modded,please don't mod yet another!!Chucksplatter

[Newc]

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If it's just the neck you like so much, put it on a Warmoth or Model series (Japan) body but keep the original body intact.

Newc

[kmanick]

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Realize that if you do mod it ( and I mean route out the body for a floyd and another humbucker) that the sound of the guitar is going to completely change. I have the Bengal that I mentioned, and several other "period" strats that all have floyds, and my Bengal sounds much fatter and I think it has a lot to do with having more intact wood in the body.
Don't do it, if it's the neck that you love, go with what Newc says, and get a another body that is already routed and put the neck on that. I know what you mean, my Bengal has a Kahler on it as well, it just doesn't compare to a floyd, but it's much easier to use alternate tunings on the fly!

[skidd]

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It is just a guitar, mod the hell out of it. That was Charvels were for, the hot rod guitar company. MOD IT!

[lotsa80sgtrs]

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Thanks for the feedback guys. It's kind of like that scene
in Animal house (after all the tissue paper falls out). [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
I will give it some more thought.

[diablomozart]

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it's your guitar do with it as you will...d.m.

[Krash]

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Guitars are like 69 camero's, nobody wants to see them all stock & original! If they did, we'd all have vintage looking Fenders & Les Pauls!
Hotroding guitars is why most of the the aftermarket companys exist in the first place.

[Zerberus]

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[ QUOTE ]
Guitars are like 69 camero's, nobody wants to see them all stock & original! If they did, we'd all have vintage looking Fenders & Les Pauls!
Hotroding guitars is why most of the the aftermarket companys exist in the first place.

[/ QUOTE ]

But, like the Camaro, if it IS stock it´s worth more in the long run should you ever sell it [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

I wouldn´t do it, but as others have said: It´s your axe [img]/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img]

[Grandturk]

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I think you should leave it as is, and here's my reason.

Modding, outside of pickup and pot (not the kind you smoke - speaking of which, why no smoking Graemlin?) swapping, has run its course to me. When I was younger, I always wanted to tack something else into my guitars, this lead to routing and cutting and utterly contemptable things done to otherwise decent guitars. The worst casualty was a really nice old kramer into which I sunk three humbuckers and a every manner of switch known to man. In the end, the guitar was trashed because I didn't really use it with all the gizmos (gizmi?) Now, my tastes have changed, and if I want a guitar with a certain feature, I buy it.