As the semester comes to a close, I have found myself with a fair bit of free time and I took some of that time today to sit down and really focus on what was going to happen with this project.

I’m going to stick with this body (as horrible as it is), so that I can do a custom paint job and not feel bad about it. I am looking into buying a new neck, although I’m just going to wait and see what can be done to the current one. As for a bridge, I’m looking at an Ibanez tremolo bridge because I have heard they are awesome. When I first screwed in the tremolo bar into this bridge, it practically lifted it right off the body; definitely not what I was expecting. Overall, most of the hardware on this guitar needs to be upgrade, so that will likely get done.

Pickup-wise, I have every intention of trying to build my own; most likely customizing and modifying these ones. However if I’m going to use this as a legit guitar, I will likely look into new pickups. My main goal from this project is to figure out pickups and guitar electronics (well at least with this guitar) and so that will be done. My ideal pickups are (and likely always will be) EMGs, though I may try out Seymour Duncan or Dimarzio pickups this time around.

That’s that for now; just a short update due to some free time (shocking, with exams less than two weeks away).

P.S. I had my LTD on Kijiji, but when it came down to it and I really thought it through, I just couldn’t do it and had to take the ad down.