Peavey Predator Exp with Full Scallop

[Themadcow]

Hey guys, this is my first post on the forum so I thought I'd share some pics of my practice guitar with you. The predator has one of the nicest necks i've ever played on, so I thought I would use this $239 guitar as a test run for my first scalloping job. I think it turned out very well, and I love the feel of the scallops.

 

[MaxOfMetal]

Damn good home job man.

Those Peavey Predators and Raptors are GREAT project guitars.

 

[Themadcow]

Ya I was blown away by it. For the money I have an awesome guitar that I can leave out and not worry about my 3 year old wrecking

 

[MaxOfMetal]

If you're so incline, take some 400 grit sandpaper to the scallops and leave some mineral oil on the board overnight. Oil it a couple more times over the next week and you'll start to see the board return to it's chocolaty brown color.

 

[Themadcow]

The pictures don't really do it justice, I've actually hit it with 600 grit. I haven't oiled it yet but I intend on it. I was just making sure that I had the skills to do the job before I try it on something nicer. I am looking at an agile 8 string right now, when I pick one up this will be the first thing I do to it.

 

[MaxOfMetal]

Nice.

I take it you're a player who digs his scallops.

 

[Themadcow]

Ya, I have always drooled over malmsteens scallops, but I have never been a big fender fan, so I finally decided to do it myself. There is definitely a cool feel to them, a light touch is required.

 

[MaxOfMetal]

With the right frets the scallops feel like a dream. I have a scalloped RG7620 at the moment, and have had a few other scalloped guitars. I thought about doing it to one of my UV's, but it'd fuck with the inlays and/or binding. I might get a new scalloped neck at some point.

 

[Themadcow]

Ya my Scallops are really deep, and a couple of my inlays had to be repaired, I think I will make sure my next one has no markers, just one less thing to worry about.

 

[SirMyghin]

Nice work, looks like you did a good job, they look nice and even.

I prefer just getting really big frets to modding my boards, then again if I had low retail cost guitars to mod up I surely would. (physically, I do pickup/trem/wiring mods as is)