My Jake E. Lee tribute guitar finally done!

[harddriver]

Here's my Jake E. Lee tribute guitar, it has a Charvel Hardtail, 9K SMITSPAF, Dimarzio SDS-1 single coils, staggered Gotoh 510 tuners(no string trees needed).
Guitar plays great I'm more than pleased with it.

[wdelaney72]

Very nice!

[harddriver]

Thanks Walter it does plays surprisingly nice considering I've just done a rough setup on it. The body wood has a really solid resonance to it.
Yeah I know Jake's has a rosewood neck but I prefer all Maple.

I can't wait to see your Destroyer. I took the cheap route and bought a 98 Epiphone 58 Korina explorer installed Smit Ultra 7T's pickup set set, much to my surprised it plays equally as well as the 2007 Gibson Mahogany Explorer I played at GC not long ago and the Gibson was not any heavier than the Epiphone, plus I much prefer the Maple neck ala Ibanez destroyer.

What color is your Destroyer going to be?

[wdelaney72]

No color... the korina is too beautiful to color and I don't have the patience to finish it off with a color. Grain filler and then nitro lacquer... that's it. Black tonepros hardware and black schaller tuners... which I love the look of.

I too, bought one of the those Smits A8's... I'll get to work on it in the spring once we get thawed out.

[harddriver]

Very cool Walter that is going to look sweet. I have seen pics of Destroyers with the Black pickguard and they look awesome. There is a pickguard place online that offers them for Epi's and gibsons, I was thinking about eventually getting one for mine.

You can't go wrong with the smits Ultra7T I think it is a close to an original super 70 as you can get. That pickup grinds like no tomorrow and has a clarity all it's own.

You can check out some of my clips if you want to hear it in action in the EVH section under Slaved 68 metro title.

[bmf5150]

awsome job!!!

[fivecoyote]

Nice. Is the Jake neck 24 3/4 scale like Jake's?


Re: the korina Epi's, they have maple necks?

[harddriver]

Thanks Stan! I hope you and your family had a good New Year!

Fivecoyote, the Epiphone were made with Maple neck from at least 1998 to 2000 to my knowledge beyond that year I do not know. The new ones are Mahogany.

Jake's Number one white Charvel was never converted over to 24 3/4" scale it was still the Stock fender three bolt neck 25.5" scale. His ESP models were 24 3/4" as he did prefer the Gibson scale, he recorded alot with a favorite SG with P-90's in it.

[HARLEYIII]

Nice work brah.

You dont have another hard tail strat body that you'd be willing to part with do you?

[harddriver]

Nice work brah.

You dont have another hard tail strat body that you'd be willing to part with do you?

I had to wait and watch the show before I answered your question! LOL!

No I don't, the body and Neck is by Warmoth, body is maple hardtail with the Universal route. I have another body on order from Musikraft who also do nice work. I have no complaints at all about the warmoth, the body wood is very musical with a strong resonance that I like.

Keep your eye on ebay they do come up.

[jctaudiodesigns]

Here's my Jake E. Lee tribute guitar, it has a Charvel Hardtail, 9K SMITSPAF, Dimarzio SDS-1 single coils, staggered Gotoh 510 tuners(no string trees needed).
Guitar plays great I'm more than pleased with it.

How do you like the Smits PAF? I used a Duncan JB in mine because thats what he used, but I find it has too much bottom end. Then of course he used a Boss OD-1 to tighten the bottom end.

How do you like the SD-1's? It took me a while before I had them adjusted properly. I had to adjust the pole pieces.

[harddriver]

Here's my Jake E. Lee tribute guitar, it has a Charvel Hardtail, 9K SMITSPAF, Dimarzio SDS-1 single coils, staggered Gotoh 510 tuners(no string trees needed).
Guitar plays great I'm more than pleased with it.

How do you like the Smits PAF? I used a Duncan JB in mine because thats what he used, but I find it has too much bottom end. Then of course he used a Boss OD-1 to tighten the bottom end.

How do you like the SD-1's? It took me a while before I had them adjusted properly. I had to adjust the pole pieces.

I never really cared for JB's myself, the 9Ksmits is actually his 9KEBS model with an A-5 magnet, it growls just enough and not boomy. Yep you are correct about the OD-1's function in hi signal chain, the best OD-1 I ever had was a Thunder Tomate Taxi Driver pedal, simply the best beat all my other vintage OD-1's hands down.

The SDS-1's really surprised me how they cleaned up and got chimey rolling the volume down and then grind full up I really like them I didn't think I would as much as I do.