Hthomas Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Hey everyone. I wanted to share what I was doin to my vintage mahogany studio. Replacing the plastic nut with a tusq nut my bridge never had the cuts for the strings tohold in place so I'm fixing that. Also my guitar was never intonated so I did that replacing the pots withhold 500k cts taper pots then taking thepickups out and putting on motor city 2nd degree black belts. What you guys think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbonesullivan Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 wait... the bridge saddles weren't slotted at all??? was it that way new or did you get it used? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hthomas Posted September 21, 2009 Author Share Posted September 21, 2009 Correct. They were never slotted and I bought it from guitar center in 2008 brand new Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flight959 Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 wait... the bridge saddles weren't slotted at all??? was it that way new or did you get it used? Very strange!... Never intionated! Why did you buy it?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre S Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 The nut is plastic? Its corian isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbonesullivan Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 that shouldn't have even left the factory without having the saddles slotted. Also they are supposed to be intonated at the factory. Maybe the bridge got damaged and the idiots at GC just slapped on a new one without bothering to properly set it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riffster Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Some bridges are slotted very little, depending on your style you may want to deepen the grooves, good mod. The nut is corian, tusq is also syntethic so not sure how much improvement you will see there. Be careful with the 500K pots, things get bright, not sure how the pickups you are getting will sound. You may end up having to increase the value of the caps to 0.033 or even 0.047 since 0.022 will not give you a ton of adjustment, if you never use the tone pot below 5 it does not matter. I have a VM and love it pretty much stock except for the Orange Drop caps and the slight wiring changes to the tone pots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hthomas Posted September 21, 2009 Author Share Posted September 21, 2009 I got the guitar wheni was learning so I didn't no any better I was told that tusq nuts are great. Is that wrong? I'm pretty sure my nut is plastic. There will be new caps with the pots. Is this gonna make it very bright? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riffster Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 The nut is corian not plastic, technically tusq is a hard plastic as well. If you change to tusq is not going to be worse but I do not know how much better it will get, maybe the nut will be setup better and you will like the guitar better but it will be because of the setup not the nut. i do not think you can go wrong. The guitar is not going to get too bright but brighter yes, you will notice the change, I am not familiar with the pickups you are installing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hthomas Posted September 21, 2009 Author Share Posted September 21, 2009 Alright cool thanks. The guitar will definatly sound better after all the mods right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riffster Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Hopefully, depends if you like the pickups you are getting. I am sure you will like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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