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I bought a white DK2M in "as is" condition on Yahoo Auction.
When it arrived, the frets were chewed up and the setup was horrible. The neck had a huge amount of relief and the bridge was raised so high that the action at the 12th fret was easily 4mm. I tightened up the truss rod and lowered the bridge, but was getting string buzz on the 1st and 2nd strings at the lower frets. Investigating in greater detail, I found that the fingerboard inlays at the 3rd, 5th, and 7th fret were lifting up just enough to interfere with the strings.
So I brought the guitar to my local guy, asked him to reglue the inlays properly into the fretboard, to refret the guitar with stainless steel jumbo frets and to change the 3 way blade to a 5 way blade. He called me yesterday morning to tell me that the work was done, so I went and picked it up.
I had forgotten to ask him to take the tone control out, so I got my soldering iron out, disconnected the tone pot, and grounded the output jack after I got home. After putting the kids to bed, I got out a 36cm by 50cm (14in by 20in) red cutting sticker, an Exacto knife, and a sharpie. After an hour of tracing, cutting, and sticker-ing, my formerly plain Jane DK2M looked like this:
What do you guys think?
When it arrived, the frets were chewed up and the setup was horrible. The neck had a huge amount of relief and the bridge was raised so high that the action at the 12th fret was easily 4mm. I tightened up the truss rod and lowered the bridge, but was getting string buzz on the 1st and 2nd strings at the lower frets. Investigating in greater detail, I found that the fingerboard inlays at the 3rd, 5th, and 7th fret were lifting up just enough to interfere with the strings.
So I brought the guitar to my local guy, asked him to reglue the inlays properly into the fretboard, to refret the guitar with stainless steel jumbo frets and to change the 3 way blade to a 5 way blade. He called me yesterday morning to tell me that the work was done, so I went and picked it up.
I had forgotten to ask him to take the tone control out, so I got my soldering iron out, disconnected the tone pot, and grounded the output jack after I got home. After putting the kids to bed, I got out a 36cm by 50cm (14in by 20in) red cutting sticker, an Exacto knife, and a sharpie. After an hour of tracing, cutting, and sticker-ing, my formerly plain Jane DK2M looked like this:
What do you guys think?
I HATE BEING LEFT HANDED! 
I rock out to Baby metal because Wilkinsi said I can't listen to Rick Astley anymore.
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