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I bought this 2 years ago and finally had time to go through the whole guitar. It was unfortunately refinished quite nicely, but they removed the tobacco edge. It had a crappy licenced floyd, a duncan Invader, and what looked to be an extra tone knob (way to close to the volume) and a huge push button. I bought it for a fair price with a near mint chainsaw case. When I went to remove the wiring, I couldn't believe what I found. There was a gutted Electro Harmonix Boost petal's wiring inside. The extra knob must have been a boost adjuster, the red led light was in there and I know why the push button was so big and ugly. The frets were pretty worn and tarnished.
I installed a new take off floyd rose FRT-O2000 off of a pro mod from the stratosphere, a new Bill Lawrence "RIP" (Bill and Becky) L500XL, a newly machined and anodized aluminum pick-up ring, a new cts 500K volume pot. I replaced the extra knob with a kill switch and filled the extra push-button hole with a mother of pearl skull (modified ear ring plug). I did a fret relevel and polish, cleaned everything, oiled the dark rosewood fretboard and waxed the body and headstock. The African Ribbon Mahogany is brilliant on this one and it is number 118 out of the approx. 500. I was able to achieve the lowest action that I have on any of my 10 guitars with NO buzzing or dead notes to speak of. This was my first Bill Lawrence pickup and and I'm very happy. I like tight pickups and always mute the "A" string to test a pickup's tightness. The L500XL is really tight and pucnhy! The Floyd looks crooked in the picture, but it is perfectly level to the body.
What is surprising is that this body seems to be perfectly form fitted to me, more than my Jackson soloist pro or other Charvel model series. I'm happy guy.
This is how I bought it. "BEFORE PICTURE"
I installed a new take off floyd rose FRT-O2000 off of a pro mod from the stratosphere, a new Bill Lawrence "RIP" (Bill and Becky) L500XL, a newly machined and anodized aluminum pick-up ring, a new cts 500K volume pot. I replaced the extra knob with a kill switch and filled the extra push-button hole with a mother of pearl skull (modified ear ring plug). I did a fret relevel and polish, cleaned everything, oiled the dark rosewood fretboard and waxed the body and headstock. The African Ribbon Mahogany is brilliant on this one and it is number 118 out of the approx. 500. I was able to achieve the lowest action that I have on any of my 10 guitars with NO buzzing or dead notes to speak of. This was my first Bill Lawrence pickup and and I'm very happy. I like tight pickups and always mute the "A" string to test a pickup's tightness. The L500XL is really tight and pucnhy! The Floyd looks crooked in the picture, but it is perfectly level to the body.
What is surprising is that this body seems to be perfectly form fitted to me, more than my Jackson soloist pro or other Charvel model series. I'm happy guy.
This is how I bought it. "BEFORE PICTURE"
AFTER
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