I'am a little bit interrested that, just as a fun project, try to build a guitar like a Flying V as an example, modify it with wiring, pickups, knobs, tremolo arm and so on to replicate any possible modifications that might have been popular back then just for a fun thing, maybe researching tone over it, try to get an old school style over it and also make it sound good for those eras tones with heavy metal in particular.
Also the visuals is something i also consider, was thinking of trying to make the guitar ''ugly'', battered, filled with sweat, open humbuckers without pickup covers, having scratches, ugly ass paint like matte black, several colors, ugly decals that is slightly loosing it's grip from it's surface, dirty and dust overall and so on just to make it feel like a super gigged guitar that has been around the road for years in clubs, studio and so on, i don't like shiny guitars since it feels too perfect most of the times in one way, i like the guitars battered, so that's why
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The guitar is supposed to be having great wood, like korina body and ebony frets, playability being great but still not ''perfect'' so to not remove all the ''mojo'' over an instrument that just plays so stupidly perfect, you gotta fight with the instrument in my opinion at least a little bit
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Any suggestions? I'am really curius over this, and since this is a long term project, it will look brand new but i will play it hard and fight to make it look so dirty and bent and broken that it will loose it's clean visuals fast. Might even consider slightly using water on the metallic components so they can rust over time..
It's gonna look, feel and sound like an old school heavy metal guitar that could have been an example of an first guitar being used by a guitarist from first place being modded over the years, the guitarist ''number one'' some famous ones might even allways use in studio if you know what i mean.
Any suggestions or tips? I'am totaly serious about this, was there ever any common mods both technicly and/or visualy on the old guitars used from those eras?