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MY MINI GUITAR POJECT

StewMac mini guitar kit with my modifications
StewMac mini guitar kit with my modifications
It is unplyable but it looks great to me!
It is unplyable but it looks great to me!

 

 

Mini Guitar Kit With Mods

 

10`000 years ago StewMac

offered this cheap baby guitar kit.

 

Basswood body, maple neck and two very cheap singlecoils which I replaced with these lipsticks.

 

I also upgraded the thing with Sperzel locking tuners but I still can`t get it in tune and play it.

 

The pickguard that came with the kit looked like a normal Strat pickguard. But I had to find my own solution that I still like a lot.

 

I made my little son choose a colour and then dyed the body accordingly and I designed my owen 4+2 headstock.

 

 

... and also a new wiring:

I think one switch choses between series and parallel wiring and the other chooses between the pickups.

 

The scale is so short that I never knew what strings to use and that I never played the little sucker.

 

(scale length is approx. 41,7 cm / 16,4")

 

The guitar was meant to seduce my little son to become a guitar player.

Unfortunately this never happened and the boy is almost 16 now, WAS a wonderful and giftet drummer but has quit drumming in order to smoke weed and give me a hard time...

 

I`m not even sure if the wiring ever really worked... I can`t remember... this thing is 10 years old at least and it was one of my first attempts to wire a guitar.

 

No matter if it works or not: 

I adore the way this guitar looks and I think I should build a grown-up version!

 

 

 

 

 

 

the original pickguard and the body before I dyed it.
the original pickguard and the body before I dyed it.
For some time I used the kit`s neck with a different body that contained a mini amp .
For some time I used the kit`s neck with a different body that contained a mini amp .
one of these littel Marshall pocket amps was "transplanted" in this new housing...
one of these littel Marshall pocket amps was "transplanted" in this new housing...
one of theses suckers was torn to pieces in order to build this guitar body.
one of theses suckers was torn to pieces in order to build this guitar body.
I made a new front panel from mother-of-toile-seat, an sah body with a walnut top and pickup access from the back.
I made a new front panel from mother-of-toile-seat, an sah body with a walnut top and pickup access from the back.
Bridge missing. The Bo Diddley inspired body design wasn`t perfect.
Bridge missing. The Bo Diddley inspired body design wasn`t perfect.

 

StewMac mini guitar kit

with new body

and built-in Marshall pocket amp

 

I was in a hurry when I decided to build this thing.

I wanted a travel guitar with built in amp. So I ruined one of these little Marshall pocket amps and built this odd guitar body inspired by Bo Diddley`s great simplistic rectangular Gretsches.


I rushed but I didn`t make it. The thing wasn`t completed in time. I had trouble with the electronics and I think  I fucked up something on these Marshall`s electronics...

I had to catch my train.

So I went on holidays without the guitar and never finished it. No idea whether I still have this body.




Years later I built a new travel-guitar,

a completely different one.

See it on my STEINBERGER-site.

click here.