Hello! This forum has been invaluable in my quest for the right guitar for me. It helped me decide to get my first guild a year ago, and have simply adored the guitar! Back to back it beat out a 4800 ES 335 in both tone and feel. It is a Newark Street Starfire V in white. I play every sunday at church (basically a cover band) and have been baffled at how many different sounds I can get out of this one guitar! I'll try to upload some pics later when I'm not at work.
Anyway, there are a few things I'd like this guitar to do better. So I've been exploring and toying with some ideas on how to modify the electronics of this guitar. I am hesitant because of how much I love it, and am worried about potentially ruining my favorite guitar ever. So I'm hoping LTG can help me out. Now for the questions:
1): The guitar has 2 Guild Little Bucker's (LB1). Does anyone know if it would be possible to put in a push pull switch to coil split these for single coil tones? I know not all humbuckers can, and haven't been able to find much info on these.
2): If not, then I would look into buying another Starfire (4 or 5, because the bursts are gorgeous!! Maybe a westerly??), and putting in humbuckers that CAN be split. Which leads to my question: are the holes in the top of the SF large enough to fit in a full size HB? Like the Guild HB1. Obviously I don't want to have to cut away parts of the guitar. So I'm trying to figure out how to navigate all this. And I'd rather not spend unnecessary money on a Gibson when Guild is so much better for me (back to back I prefer the guild every time). And I don't want to go epiphone unless its absolutely necessary.
3): adding a 10db 9v batter for volume boost? Does anyone have any experience with this?
Help me LTG....You're my only hope! Lol. Thanks in advance!!
Anyway, there are a few things I'd like this guitar to do better. So I've been exploring and toying with some ideas on how to modify the electronics of this guitar. I am hesitant because of how much I love it, and am worried about potentially ruining my favorite guitar ever. So I'm hoping LTG can help me out. Now for the questions:
1): The guitar has 2 Guild Little Bucker's (LB1). Does anyone know if it would be possible to put in a push pull switch to coil split these for single coil tones? I know not all humbuckers can, and haven't been able to find much info on these.
2): If not, then I would look into buying another Starfire (4 or 5, because the bursts are gorgeous!! Maybe a westerly??), and putting in humbuckers that CAN be split. Which leads to my question: are the holes in the top of the SF large enough to fit in a full size HB? Like the Guild HB1. Obviously I don't want to have to cut away parts of the guitar. So I'm trying to figure out how to navigate all this. And I'd rather not spend unnecessary money on a Gibson when Guild is so much better for me (back to back I prefer the guild every time). And I don't want to go epiphone unless its absolutely necessary.
3): adding a 10db 9v batter for volume boost? Does anyone have any experience with this?
Help me LTG....You're my only hope! Lol. Thanks in advance!!