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Added: 00/00/00
Graeme Matthews
I've been missing having a Strat for a while, there's something about that sound!! I've had a couple of American Strats and loved the sound but hated the radius of the frets, so I decided to put one together myself.
I picked up an Allparts maple neck (20" radius) off Ebay with locking Klugsons for £35 (steal) and a poplar maple drop top body from the States for £40.
I re-finished the neck in matt nitro (logo courtesy of "Decal Joe") and the body in clear nitro. The set-up is spot on with 1.14mm at the 12th top E. Everything you see apart from the neck, body and tuners is sourced from Axetec and it sounds absolutely jaw droppingly brilliant. I'd put this guitar up against any passive Strat, I just can't believe these pups.
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Added: 10/09/08
Chris Guy
I purchased various pieces of hardware from axetec ,Bridge,tuners,control knobs,jimmy page wiring kit and a pair of Irongear Rolling Mill pickups. Firstly I`d like to complement you on the quality of the equipment and secondly on the first rate service you gave. The guitars finally finished...my first,and I`m really happy with it, there`s some things I`d like to have done better in hindsight but bearing in mind it was built in my shed with limited tools i don`t think it turned out bad,I made everything from scratch except the body which was a basically shaped blank which i extensively modified.I have to say the pickups are excellent great tone and superb value for money,reinforces my opinion of a lot of overpriced stuff! Thanks again, (if I make another I`ll buy from you again.
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Added: 13/10/08
Simon Davidson
For my A2 Product design course I undertook a project to make myself an electric guitar, I have to admit it now, I actually accidentally stumbled across axetec. but the result was better than I could ever have dreamt, it must have knocked my cost in half! but I find the sound from the rolling mill pair is flawless now that I have shielded the electrics, although there was not much ground (hum) anyway. the guitar was made almost 100% in school and I only had to get the teacher to help when i had to use the band-saw as I am too young to use them in school, I'm 17.
p.s. the woods are, (from the outside) Bubinga, Birdseye Maple, Amazaque, Zebrano, Rosewood, and the same in the other direction
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Added: 01/11/08
Chris Guy
(This) was a custom Tokai neck and a nice tele body that caught my eye couldn't resist putting them together so it was more an assembly than raw build.I purchased the steel twin pickups from Axetec and fitted a quad overdrive instead of a tone control, sounds great still trying to figure out best way of using it though. It very much in the classic style nothing out of the ordinary but i really like it,its got an indestructible feel about it.
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Added: 13/03/09
Adam McCausland
After coming back from a year in New Zealand (a trip funded by the selling of my old gear) i hadn't much to my name gear-wise. My girlfriend had an old Vantage vp7 lying around the house gathering dust. So i decided instead of buying a new guitar, which i couldn't afford anyway, i'd refurbish this one. It had a decent body and i'd always quite liked the shape. So i removed all the old rusted parts, sanded down the body and stained it with a couple of layers of wood dye. After that i applied a couple of layers of matt varnish. Then i fashioned a custom pick guard, loosely based on pickguard from a Gibson SG. I then installed all the wiring & some IronGear Hot Slag pickups and by some miracle it actually works! Everything bar the bridge and machineheads came directly from Axetec. She now snarls like a beast!"
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Added: 14/03/09
John Burton
I thought I would try and build myself a quality guitar (and) re-built a 25-year-old strat copy as a practise run. The body is the only original part, and has undergone a fair bit of modification (half inch radius rounding, ash infill of tremolo/bridge cavities). The body shape is very slightly
non-standard, so I made the custom scratch plate using sycamore veneer on 2mm MDF. All my hardware was purchased from Axetec.
(The) pickups sound really good (strat-like), and they
are extremely responsive to different playing styles. I made many mistakes during my build, but my choice of IronGear pickups was one of my best decisions. I hope the experience will serve me well when I get to the pointy super strat.
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Added: 3/06/09
Tony
This is my latest build. I wanted to do something a bit different from a standard Tele. I bought a set of BareKnuckle "The Boss" pickups and whilst the bridge pickup was great, the neck pickup didn't compare. So, I tried an IronGear Jailhouse Rails that I had left over from an earlier build, and what a difference that makes! Real power now in both positions. Amazing really - a £30 pickup sounding as good as one costing 3x as much! Thanks IronGear.
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Added: 17/08/09
Glyn Tebbutt
This is my third rebuild. This guitar was originally from a pre-loved shop when I was on holiday. It's an old Westfield and a bit shappy, the body and neck are mahogany in a green stain finish.
Pickups are 2 Hotslags with a single tone, volume and a 3-way selector switch. The guitar is very light and screams. Even with a little gain the tone is amazing and even at high volumes it doesn't loose its clarity.
The only original part of the guitar are the tuners, which are to be upgraded soon.
The guitar sounds so good that this has become my primary guitar for our bands music.
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Added: 02/11/09
Steve Hardman
I thought you would like to see three guitars I made for clients recently. The one in plain wood is called 'Delta Lightening' built on the cigar box idea, the other two are cigar boxes, and have gone together really well. the Punch one is called 'The Handsome Stranger' and the Ramon Allones box is called 'The Redhead'. All were received well by the clients and I've even been accused of being a craftsman by one of them.All are set up to be played both finger style or slide,and carry your 'Hi Wires' strings,volume controls and jack sockets. I will be bringing in boxes from the USA to offer something different in the future because I'm retiring in February and looking to earn a little income. So there you are it's DELTA BLUES SLIDE GUITARS next year.
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Added: 05/12/09
Rob Ridsdale
Thought I'd e-mail my thanks for your invaluable advice and 1st class service. I've finally finished my first guitar and attached photographs for your gallery.
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All fittings from Axetec(Hot Slag humbuckers), American black walnut body, ebony finger board on maple neck.
We can't believe the sound we're getting from these pick-ups when compared to my son's Fender Squier Strat and the sustain is incredible.
Thanks again
Rob Ridsdale
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Added: 24/01/10
Salvo Isaja
After six months, here is my third build project completed. Thanks to Axetec for providing all parts (except wood, trussrod, inlay dots and fretwire) of very good quality and with excellent service. Neck: two-piece maple, extra slim, neck-thru-body construction, 4 angled peghead with ebony veneer, oil finish. Fingerboard: maple with ebony veneer, dead flat, 24 jumbo frets plus fret #0, no nut, 24-inch scale, 3 mm abalone inlay dots. Solid mahogany body with a thin spalted maple top, red stain and polyurethane finish, cutaways all the way down to the 24th fret.
Pickups: IronGear Pig Iron at neck, IronGear Steam Hammer at bridge with series/parallel/coil cut options. 3-way selector for neck only, bridge only, or both in series out of phase.
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Added: 15/06/10
Mike Chase
My tele has been a work in progress for many years, starting out as a standard single coil college project. However, a while back I decided that it needed a major overhaul and so decided to create a tele-deluxe style beast. The home-made neck was replaced with a strat neck. The body which is a solid piece of ash has been contoured considerably more than you'd expect on a tele, although retaining the overall shape and finally finished with Tru-oil. I've dropped in a couple of Irongear Hammerheads, and replaced the hardware with a chrome T-style bridge and chrome neck pick-up surround. To compliment the chunky black Hammerheads I've added black control knobs. Inside I've got the full Mr Page style wiring for maximum pickup combination and drive. Overall not your standard telecaster!
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Added: 23/06/10
John Habershon
I'm a novice just learning the ropes so to speak but have become interested in customising my guitars - only cosmeticly at this time until I gain confidence to take things further. I have 6 guitars - 3 of which I have customised.
THE GUITAR: Yamaha 012
Original pick-ups.
Both single coil pick-up surrounds changed from white to black.
Knobs, trem tip and selector switch tip changed from white to black.
Scratchplate: couldn't get one in a different colour to fit the guitar exactly, would have had to make new holes in the body of the guitar - considered spraying the scratchplate, but instead covered it in sticky back Fablon.
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Added: 03/07/10
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