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So years ago I had reason to purchase a Model 4 from a now sadly gone pawn shop near where I work and I pulled it apart to give the neck and plate to a friend and wound up selling the trem and electronics to help defray the cost.
The other day I saw a pretty cool looking neck on Ebay and thought to myself, I've got a neck plate again, and I have a cool set of Ultrasonic pickups that were in a Model 6 (that's still under going the longest restore in history, long story) and of course I have a couple of Floyd specials lying around from Pro Mods that got upgraded.
Unbelievably there was no other action on this neck and I thought I saw something else cool about it but could not be sure. The seller stated that he had been told it was not a Model 4 neck, but other than that I don't know what it could be.
Oh, heck, here's the auction: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/CHARVEL-N...vip=true&rt=nc
So I got the neck and it's pretty great, just needs the screws for the tuners changed out, and it does have that very cool feature I thought it might, but had never seen before on a neck from this era. A proper Floyd nut.
Now, my friend has a Model 6 with a "Floyd like" Kahler nut, and JT6, but this is a normal Floyd nut, very cool!
Now, what I currently have is this neck and a body with the cavity covers. Using the Ultrasonics I want to put in something like the EMG SPC boost, sort of like the OG electronics.
Looking at Frets on the net I will probably get upgraded cavity covers with new screws, the pickup ring and the pickup selector switches and probably the neck plate screws and a few other screws.
Is there anywhere I can get new or upgraded trem mount studs? I know it's possible to fully replace them with ones from Schaller but if I can screw something else in that's new that would be cool.
Lastly, it's the dark plum colour but I am thinking of refinishing it. Red is my fave but I "might" do it in an aqua type metallic to entice my daughter to learn, but if not, I'll have another cool guitar in my collection, ha ha!!!
The other day I saw a pretty cool looking neck on Ebay and thought to myself, I've got a neck plate again, and I have a cool set of Ultrasonic pickups that were in a Model 6 (that's still under going the longest restore in history, long story) and of course I have a couple of Floyd specials lying around from Pro Mods that got upgraded.
Unbelievably there was no other action on this neck and I thought I saw something else cool about it but could not be sure. The seller stated that he had been told it was not a Model 4 neck, but other than that I don't know what it could be.
Oh, heck, here's the auction: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/CHARVEL-N...vip=true&rt=nc
So I got the neck and it's pretty great, just needs the screws for the tuners changed out, and it does have that very cool feature I thought it might, but had never seen before on a neck from this era. A proper Floyd nut.
Now, my friend has a Model 6 with a "Floyd like" Kahler nut, and JT6, but this is a normal Floyd nut, very cool!
Now, what I currently have is this neck and a body with the cavity covers. Using the Ultrasonics I want to put in something like the EMG SPC boost, sort of like the OG electronics.
Looking at Frets on the net I will probably get upgraded cavity covers with new screws, the pickup ring and the pickup selector switches and probably the neck plate screws and a few other screws.
Is there anywhere I can get new or upgraded trem mount studs? I know it's possible to fully replace them with ones from Schaller but if I can screw something else in that's new that would be cool.
Lastly, it's the dark plum colour but I am thinking of refinishing it. Red is my fave but I "might" do it in an aqua type metallic to entice my daughter to learn, but if not, I'll have another cool guitar in my collection, ha ha!!!
Is that an ebony fretboard?
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