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My Jake E. Lee tribute guitar finally done!
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:00 pm
by 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.
Re: My Jake E. Lee tribute guitar finally done!
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:02 pm
by wdelaney72
Very nice!
Re: My Jake E. Lee tribute guitar finally done!
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:03 am
by 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?
Re: My Jake E. Lee tribute guitar finally done!
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:05 am
by 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.
Re: My Jake E. Lee tribute guitar finally done!
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:58 am
by 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.
Re: My Jake E. Lee tribute guitar finally done!
Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 4:41 pm
by bmf5150
awsome job!!!
Re: My Jake E. Lee tribute guitar finally done!
Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 5:13 pm
by fivecoyote
Nice. Is the Jake neck 24 3/4 scale like Jake's?
Re: the korina Epi's, they have maple necks?
Re: My Jake E. Lee tribute guitar finally done!
Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 8:10 pm
by 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.
Re: My Jake E. Lee tribute guitar finally done!
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 11:58 am
by HARLEYIII
Nice work brah.
You dont have another hard tail strat body that you'd be willing to part with do you?
Re: My Jake E. Lee tribute guitar finally done!
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 1:52 pm
by harddriver
HARLEYIII wrote: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.
Re: My Jake E. Lee tribute guitar finally done!
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:32 pm
by jctaudiodesigns
harddriver wrote: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.
Re: My Jake E. Lee tribute guitar finally done!
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:04 pm
by harddriver
jctaudiodesigns wrote:harddriver wrote: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.