Guitarnuts inspired mods, what have you done?

[ux4484]

I was responding to John H in E & W section, but thought it would make a better topic than a response.

Since coming here, what mods have you done that were directly inspired by GN or GN2.

Well......since first finding the original Guitarnuts about a year ago, I've already quieted the beast on my Squire strat, replaced the bridge, popped a (decades) old DiMarzio Dual sound and split switch in it as well.
On the Tele, initially star grounding and then bent-screw intonating on the original bridge. Then a complete makeover...new bridge, new tuners, GFS "modern vintage" set (via Unk's & JohnH's McCarty wiring) and a little resurfacing/refinishing making it better than new (and better than many Tele's I've been pounding on at GC and SA of late).
I'm done for now

....though the tuners I put on the tele are sooOOOoooo much better than the ones on the strat....hmmmmmm.....

[UnklMickey]

ux4484 said:

...bent-screw intonating on the original bridge....

what is that?


thanks

unk

[ux4484]

It's basically making a standard 3 saddle Tele-bridge a Wilkerson style bridge by putting a small kink in the saddle screws creating the same kind of offset. It wasn't on GN, but reading JohnA's strat review led me (indirectly) to the Seymour Duncan forums where it was discussed.

[UnklMickey]

so, once you've kinked the screws, to compensate for the difference between the 2 strings, you can't adjust the intonation again?

[ux4484]

If you change the screws to brass ones, you can do a pretty neat job of it, but obviously you can only adjust it in whole turns, so yes....you'd better be spot on when you kink them. If you use the same size strings consistently, it's better than all the fiddling and tuning tricks that come with getting a standard tele bridge even close. It was a stop-gap solution until I finally popped for a new bridge. The six saddle (round saddles) model I put on is not as deep sounding as the original, but chords everywhere sound so much better...though are a bit more jangle-ly.