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No, not the site moderators (and thanks for your work btw. I haven't been here long, but I noticed right off the bat that I have found a well oiled machine that is LTG. (y) )

I'm talking about guitar mods!! Your 6 string hot rods!

My go-to solid body electric for the last few decades has been a tele. Here's my Frankentele. 👹

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3 EMG pups w/ added mini toggle for active/passive, heavy Callaham bridge w/ compensated brass saddles (this made SUCH a big difference!!) Hipshot B Bender, D Bender, and Insta drop D toggle for the low E. It's loads of fun! Only wish I were skilled enough to get the most out of it. After 35 yrs of construction work, my hands just can't do everything my head wants them to. I only wish I had this guitar back in my 20's!
 

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Why do people run from guitars like this?

Good question! Some of the best dogs I have ever known were not purebred either.
My two cents: I think your guitar is gorgeous, surely sounds stellar, and I'd happily take it home and be content just to look at it for a few years, it's that cool. Such a deeply rich color, too, one could call it Blood Red. Yet I know some folks, suppose we all do, that will treat a guitar like it has leprosy if it has even the slightest modification; some people do it reflexively. Tastes vary!
I'm not even sure how many mods were done on this S-90 (try to guess!) but I do know that I wouldn't part with it because it is one of the best guitars I've ever played and the neck is so easy on the hands that playing air guitar would seem more strenuous.
Do not know the year and factory for certain. Serial looks like 73583.
Not the greatest photos, sorry. No toes, either. Dark and dreary storm hammering this region, and to paraphrase GAD, reflections are the enemy.

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Cute Tele. Congrats!

My oh-so-tasteful '76 Guild D-35 mods:

- bone nut, saddle, and E-A-D-G bridge pins )
- B-E rosewood bridge pins
- Grover Rotomatics
- neck heel strap button
- K&K pickup
 

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Added NS Guild BS-1RWRP neck pup and 1MEGvolume/500kblend/Tonestyler harness to my Starfire bass. Added chrome dome knobs. Ultra light tuners. Soon ebony saddles.
 

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I have this 1960 T-100C that had an internal loose magnets buzzing problem with it's original Franz.
While I was troubleshooting the Franz, I decided to install a custom P-90 design I had around just to see how it would sound.
I wouldn't have done this if I had to modify the guitar in any way as my intent was to be able to put it back together as original.

The P-90 fit in the cavity and the dog ear mounts lined up perfectly with the Franz cover screws on the top.
I cut down the P-90 cover's dog ears to match the curve of the original Franz just because it seemed the right kinda Guildish thing to do.
Also I didn't want any contact impressions from the P-90 cover in that nice red finish.

I had to set aside the original pickguard as the P-90 required a wider cutout to fit, so I made a new one using a Gibsonesque 5 ply sheet and an older Guild shape.

After this the entire look of the guitar had changed, so opted to use some 50's Guild clear barrel knobs as a finishing touch,

For me....all good, sound's great and I can change it back for me or the next caretaker!

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This little guitar went to Germany ;]

So it's Duo Sonic that someone just had to stick three pickups in. Under the pickguard, yikes! Very little wood left of the neck pocket.

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In retrospect now, it was silly to get rid of it but there was rent to pay, or a mortgage rather.

And a Strat jack!

Look at the brown pre CBS clay dots!

Ohhh to have a Duo Sonic now, but the prices are nuts. In fact, the only way I could afford one of these now would be heavily modded, but I'll skip the "swimming pool" route done by someone on drugs with an electric drill ;]

And that amp, the 007 lollll
 
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This thread might just turn into the scene in Jaws where Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw are comparing scars! :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:


"I can top that! I can top that!!!"

Last year, one of the slipholders at my boss' Marina that I've gotten to know over the years (an old deadhead) had just retired and decided to start playing guitar again after a 30+ year layoff. Said he had a tele and a Guild takeoff on a LP he'd like me to go over, set up, and string/tune for him. He said he let his brother borrow his tele and just got it back from him around 10 years ago. Turns out, his brother BUTCHERED a 1966!!:oops: He put a humbucker in the neck position and from what it looked like under the cover, made room for it w/ a hammer and chisel!!! Oh the humanity!! It gets worse! Then I guess he must have sliced his finger pretending to be Pete Townsend or something, because he decided the strings needed to be closer to the body so he shaved the heel of the neck down!! I was almost in tears going over this thing. I wound up putting a new bridge on it w/ shorter saddles just to make it playable. The saddle height screws are mostly sticking out of the top and barely being used as feet! The pickups are also as low as they'll possibly go.

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All in all, it's a sad affair seeing what could have been a pretty valuable guitar get reduced to less than parts value. The neck still felt amazing while playing. Loved that thin rosewood fingerboard. And the bridge pickup was a screamer!!

The Guild was a M75. At that point I'd never seen one before in person. I repaired a piece of binding that had broken off and was missing from the nut to the 2nd fret on the top. Luckily, the black fret marker pin was still sticking out of the neck, so I just drilled a small hole in the new piece of binding, glued it on, lightly sanded it all down, then mixed a bit of stain w/ lacquer to match the yellowing of the rest of the binding. As for the 75, I instantly fell in love with the electronics and only WISH all Les Paul's had a master volume!! Genius!! Only wish I'd had more time with it. It was a heavy beast though. Up there w/ a few LP customs I've owned. Never again! Give me a chambered body anyday. I like a light guitar best.

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Ric 4003:
Ultralight tuners
Sanded neck
Toaster pups
Selector/mv/Tonestyler harness
Copper shielded pups and cavity
Dual Design straploks.
Hipshot bridge.
Chrome knobs
Clear pickguard (I also have white but like the clear better.).
Horn strap button moved to neck heel.
After having a Starfire bass, I like strap pin there.
 

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Hey Modsters, what do you make of this?
Looks like those lipstick pickups were original to that guitar? Whats the mod? Looks like a Danelectro Coral Firefly missing the pickguard and having different knobs and a different bridge?

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Yes, it's a Firefly, with an old Tune O Matic modded in, also no pickup rings, looks better, also no pickguard, in this case looks much better.

Where did you find a pic of this model?

I've never seen another with this very Gibson/Epi like tailpiece, so I just naturally assumed that was a mod as well over the garish Coral badged tailpieces.

The story on this one is that it's been this way for 20 years, and was done sometime before that, I'm wondering just how old a Tune O Matic this is?

Takes guts to plant posts for something like that over say a movable bridge, and it looks like it was done right.

How would you measure for that?

The 12th fret is supposed to be exactly in the middle of the string, but how do you measure the angle of the bridge, on paper?

Oh, another oddity about this one it's Silvertone, not a Dano, this has a black painted headstock, highly unlikely to be the quirky odd Brazilian Rosewood paddle a la Dano, more of a Silvertone/Dano neck with Sears grade Fender like headstock, still has Alu nut, etc. This would be the last of the Coral Silvertones, not the easiest guitars to get info on.

Early Coral Fireflies had "English Maple" maybe NJ made. Later ones made of Spruce and sometimes flamed Maple veneers by Kawaii in Japan and sent back to Neptune for assembly.

What about the picture you posted, is it Kawaii, or an earlier one?
 
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Where did you find a pic of this model?
It's also not all original I think, but I have no idea about the age. Well possible that tailpiece was fitted later on.

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