by axeKool Guitars | Guitar Wiring Diagrams
Telecaster 3 Way Switch Wiring Harness Diagram Download (PDF) 1 x Volume, 1 x Tone and 3 way lever switch Download PDF >
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Telecaster 4 Way Switch Wiring Harness Diagram Download (PDF) 1 x Volume, 1 x Tone and 4 way lever switch Download PDF >
by axeKool Guitars | Guitar Refinishing, Projects
Fender Stratocaster 1972 Project, Complete Rebuild Strat USADavid Gilmour Stratocaster 1972….The owner of this guitar, dropped it off with us and it was in a bad old state. The client had owned it from new in 1972 and it had been sprayed many times in various...
by axeKool Guitars | Guitar Refinishing, Projects
Custom Telecaster Project, Telecaster complete build, TeleAlex the owner of the guitar, dropped it off with all the bits. The guitar body was bare wood and all parts were new and supplied…Breakdown of projectBody prepared for spaying and then sprayed to a shell...
by axeKool Guitars | Guitar Refinishing, Projects
EVH Tribute Mike the owner of the guitar, dropped it off with all the bits. The guitar was already painted red and had a couple of white lines on it, and we did the rest… This is a 7 sting with a set through neck and active Seymour Duncan Blackout pickups. Yep,...
by axeKool Guitars | Guitar Refinishing, Projects
Shaftesbury Bass 1969This would have to be one of the biggest repair jobs I have had to do. The photos (I remembered to take a few) show how badly the guitar had been damaged, its condition was very poor. Chris, who owns over 25 guitars, bought the Shaftesbury into...
by axeKool Guitars | Guitar Showcase
Solidbody / Production 1976 to early 1980’s. Gary Kramer had been a partner with Travis Bean and known for producing metal construction guitars. When the first Kramer brand guitars appeared in 1976, it was no surprise that they had a metal neck and were made by...
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Solidbody / Production 1976 – 1983. The Iceman was born in the mid 1970’s as a national guitar of Japan, a design that would bring the same level of prestige to a Japanese guitar that the Fender Stratocaster and Gibson Les Paul did for the America.Four...
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Solidbody / Production 1976 – 1988. What a breakthrough this guitar was in 1976. Until this point Japanese guitars reputation was not great, but he Yamaha SG 2000 changed all that. Most guitarist considered this models workmanship and performance to be not only...
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Solidbody / Production 1961 – 1974 The Fender Bass VI is a short scale bass of 30 inches, but the tremolo along with its guitar style 6 string spacing, revealed its true identity as a low tuned guitar.The body and tremolo came from the Jazzmaster, and the three...
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Solidbody / Production 1990 – 1995. With dive bomb vibrato effects and super fast fingerboard tapping, Eddie Van Halen was the most influential guitarist of the 1980’s and the foundation of the Kramer companies success. In 1990, Ernie Ball / Music Man...
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Hollowbody / Production 1957 – 1973. The Hofner President was the least expensive of Hofner’s single cutaway, full depth hollowbody electrics, although the theme of American politics continued down the line to the none cutaway Senator and the Congress...
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Hollowbody / Production 1949 to current day. In 1949, two years after Gibson added a cutaway to its ES-300, making it the ES-350, Gibson then did the same to its ES-125 and added 50 points to its title model number and called it the new ES-175. The models Florentine...
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Hollowbody / Production 1956 – 2007. The Artist Award was Guild’s johnny Smith Award model, but only for a short period of time. Guild began its guitar business in 1952 just as Smith released the track Moonlight in Vermont, that bought him fame for his...
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Solidbody / Production 1954 – 1958, 1986 – 1992, 1998 to current day. Gibson’s 1952 Goldtop Les Paul priced at £150,00 competed with Fender’s £120.00 Telecaster, but Fender also offered the Esquire at a much lower price. In 1954, Gibson came...
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Solidbody / Production 1982 – 1984. This Aria Urchin Delux illustrates the Japanese company was unencumbered by any traditional designs, while Gibson and Fender had great difficulty creating news designs and did not follow its Les Pauls, Stratocasters and...
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Solidbody / Production 1991 to current day. In the band the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck never attained the commercial success of the guitarists who preceded him or followed him. However, Jeff Beck is as revered and influential as Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page.Fender managed...
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Solidbody / Production 2005 to current day. Bo Diddley made his mark in rock n roll history in 1955 with his rhumba rock beat that supported his hit track “Bo Diddley” and along with his rectangular guitar Gretsch made for him in 1958. This guitar model...
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Solidbody / Production 1962 to 1967 / 1977 – Current day. Gibson started making Hawaiian doublneck guitars as far back as 1937, within two years of the Gibson’s first electric models, but the concept did not really take off until the 1950’s. Gibson...
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Solidbody / Production 1988 to current day. Eric Clapton gained his fame in the early 1960’s playing a Gibson Les Paul and plugging it into a Marshall amp as a member of the legendary band Cream. He did start out on a Fender Telecaster with the Yardbirds, this...
