Christmas build : a Bongo 4HH

Start with a generic, but sound body and neck. Install 2 Herrick Neo-HB for Neodymium clarity and dynamic, and a STC-3P Seymour Duncan, wired for 18V for headroom.
A Hipshot Extender and Schaller BM tuners, Slinky 50-105 nickel strings, and Ernie Ball strap locks.

Then add shims to the neck, far too low, adjust neck relief, saddle height, intonation, do not raise the pick-ups too close to the strings.

A dynamic to blow your socks off!

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Homemade Angus Young SG
Start with an Epiphone G400pro.
Add Gibson Burstbuckers 1&2 pickups, a Bigsby B5, Kluson locking tuners, custom « flash » and « little devil » stickers and « Angus » custom TRC - and Straploks.

Walk like a duck. Play like a mad Aussie. Enjoy yourself.

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My favourite obsession…
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Home-made Country Gentleman :
Take a Gretsch G5420TG in Cadillac Green.
Replace the Ajusto-matic with a Tim Harman tru-arc CU120 copper rocking bridge.
Replace the flat Bigsby handle with a wire one (re-bore the hinge axis to metric size) & shorten the handle to curve round the bridge
Screw an authentic Chet Atkins golden plaque, a « signpost » pickguard & a custom engraved truss rod cover « Weapon of Choice ».
Add Schaller Straploks
Play to your heart’s content.
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Custom built Epiphone/Gibson EB3-L :
Take an inexpensive but well built Epiphone EB-3.
Search on the Bay and other places of perdition for a couple of vintage Gibson pickups, a mudbucker, and a mini-humbucker for the bridge position.
Add a Rothstein wiring loom for that additional « choke » position - and that elusive, 4 position dial.
Replace the « oil rig » bridge by a chunky Hipshot one
Have a truss rod cover engraved (in the right font) « EB3-L »
Enjoy.
Voilà !
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