Agile Overhauled! (Tacky content)(56k: quit living in the past)

[Ketzer]

Well, decided that after I swore off superstrats (until the next awesome one comes along), I'd upgrade my Agile to the caliber of a great guitar, via an original floyd rose and high-quality wires, pots, and switches.


Well, I've got no pics of the inside, but hey, who cares!

I ordered an OFR7 in black from Prorockgear.com.

A week later, having recieved no trem, sent over an email. Steve responded quickly, found out it was an inventory control problem and they had no left, and overnighted me a gold one at no extra charge, so +2 for the guys from Prorockgear.


We started here, with a black hornet 7 Pro.

Now we're here. Switchcraft switch, CTS pots, OFR7. Blackout Neck in the bridge, EMG 707-TW in the neck.

I ordered a set of 6 left-handed tuners and a seventh, but it came in right-handed, so i swapped the gold buttons and bushings with black tuners, so they look like those pricey tuners on classical guitars.

Also, behold my modified cliplock strap, with heavy padding.



I don't know if it's because I hadn't played this axe in a while, or something else, but with the nice hardened steel OFR on the guitar instead of the Pot steel Korean LFR, it just sounds so much fuller and clearer. Anyone care to shed some light on that? OFRs making guitars sound better?

 

[Euthanasia]

SEXY!! I love gold hardware P:

 

[missingastring]

Nice. I'm not usually a fan of gold hardware, but that looks tits.

 

[MaxOfMetal]

The trem is your bridge. The more mass, the better, at least to most. No surprise that the hardened steel OFR with it's more mass and more massive block sound better.

 

[technomancer]

Nice! Gotta' love gold hardware on black guitars \m/

 

[Ketzer]

Nice! Gotta' love gold hardware on black guitars \m/

I'd prefer it was the Gold with black accents on a white guitar, but there aren't many white hornets on the used market. Damn shame.

 

[Rick]

That looks real good.

 

[cyril v]

awesome upgrade dude! is that the 707tw i traded you? If so, i'm glad to see it being used in such awesome fashion! That looks great with the gold hardware...

 

[Ketzer]

Yep, it is. I'm considering wiring in a boost for when I'm using the split, because the output drops so drastically in single-coil mode that it doesn't cut through my Decimator, and I have to switch it off. I'd much prefer having a boost on the guitar, but I'd have no need for one for either pickup in humbucking mode, considering how powerful both the TW and Blackout are. I might just have to deal with it.

 

[Apophis]

looks great

 

[Xaios]

Wow, very classy. I take it the OFR7 is a direct replacement for the LFR7 with no modification required?

 

[EliNoPants]

that looks so much like the old Dave Mustaine Jackson King V sig now

black with gold hardware FTW!!!

 

[Ketzer]

Wow, very classy. I take it the OFR7 is a direct replacement for the LFR7 with no modification required?

You have to do a teeny bit of routing on the treble side, the LFRs have a slanted back side, and OFRs are straight. 30 seconds with a dremel and some black nail polish, looks good as new.


I always loved those Jackson KV1s, I plan on getting a Red Hornet 7 with a hardtail (To convert to a Kahler unit) sometime in the future.

 

[Adam Of Angels]

Congrats, you just turned that thing into a big ol' shaft throbber.

 

[OmertaDave]

That thing's sexy as hell man, nice!

 

[darren]

That's hot.

 

[Meldville]

Boioioioioing!

 

[djpharoah]

Thats fucking sick!

 

[oremus91]

V's are sick...

 

[Pingu]

Awesome dude!