The Failcaster!

[carbon]

So I'm bored out of my mind and have a pretty crappy Cort stratocaster knockoff sitting around, which means its time for it to be modded! Goal is to spend next to no money on parts and put as many obnoxious homebrew modifications on this thing as I possibly can! I already started with scalloping the frets and rearranging the headstock layout to a 4+2, what other things should I do to it? Also, this is a joke guitar, so if you have any funny/obnoxious ideas let me know. Its missing its middle pickup from something earlier that i forgot about so don't worry about that. Pics soon to come.

 

[Kevp714]

put a big "PHAIL!" across the fretboard =)

 

[carbon]

 

[pink freud]

Steve Vai monkey grip.

Add in two more single coil pickups (for a total of five), and do some crazy rotary switch with a funny looking knob.

EDIT: Sand out the paint in the neck joint. That shit is a tone-sucker.

 

[Wi77iam]

and cut the rest of that headstock off

 

[Kevp714]

you could refinish it and make it fluorescent green or something.

 

[carbon]

Monkey grip sounds good, should be interesting to implement because I'm going to be cutting down the upper 'horn' on the body so that lefty people such as myself can play it easier, and it may not be put in the same (i.e. practical) place that Vai has it. I also will be cutting off the rest of the headstock, any ideas for a strange shape? Also lol'd at the phail inlay idea, ill see what I can do. Anywhere I should look for how to refinish this thing?

 

[BurialWithin]

Dude put the monkey grip in the headstock!!!!!!

 

[redlol]

turn it into a lefty beatle paul mcartney shape! pink paint with green/orange glitter/sparkles too

 

[MaKo´s Tethan]

I do that on my strat (I mean, 4+2 headstock) `cause I wanna Music Man headstock, but I could`t make it, so...now is 6-in line again, with black head to hide the (filled)holes.

 

[norrin radcliff]

Ibanez Voyager cutaway ftw!

 

[carbon]

Good news! My friend has this fender starcaster that just hangs on the wall as a joke, and he's letting me have the pickups out of it! 5 pickups are a go, I'm gonna see if I can get the holes cut out for them tonight. These will probably be controlled by a giant bank of switches, which I still have to figure out how to set up.

Woo! Now I just need to figure out how the heck to set up the wiring. Probably gonna clean the openings on the pick guard up some too, or possibly make a new one from lexan or something once I have access to some better tools, because as you can see below I'm a bit limited lol

Yes, all the cutting in this cavity was done with that leatherman. It's not called the failcaster for nothing

Glorious excess.

Contemplating changing the name to the Stratoblaster hehe

 

[pink freud]

So awesome.

I wonder if you could get new covers so each one was a different color?

 

[heineken_fretwalker]

So awesome.

I wonder if you could get new covers so each one was a different color?

This for sure! Then paint the body some obscene bright color. I also think the monkey grip is a fantastic idea.

 

[pink freud]

This for sure! Then paint the body some obscene bright color. I also think the monkey grip is a fantastic idea.

Day-Glo colors swirl paintjob!

 

[leandroab]

This is fucking awesome!

 

[Bungle]

Stratoblaster! That is an awesome name dude. +1 for the monkey grip too.

I reckon old school Ibby chartreuse with some hot pink racing stripes.

 

[Nitsuj]

I bet Steve Morse felt the same way as you do.

 

[joshuallen]

Go fretless! Frets are for pansies.

 

[Bungle]

Actually, new plan:

String pull, anyone?