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cooter · . Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 1138 Location: Blue Ridge, GA

I got this ’65 Kalamazoo KG2 in a trade with forum member over at reranch.
The vintage brass tele bridge and the tele bridge pickup were perfect donors for a Keith Richards “Micawber” build so they were sold off right away.
So were the gold mini grovers.

That left me with a shell of a Kalamazoo and free reign to go any direction I wanted with it.
I love a set of p90s sooooo...

I stripped down the body and neck.

The body needed a little filling where the tele bridge pickup had been routed. I also had to redrill the holes for the bridge cups.
And yes, the body is made of some sort of mdf. Who needs wood when you can use particle board.

Then I made a kustom pickguard template.

Then the pickguard.

Then I added some of this.

And now I’m on the home stretch.

I need to make a couple of small blocks to glue in the body to raise the p90s a fuzz more and then wire it all up.

Overall I'm really happy. I play fuzzed out garage/blues/punk so a cheap guitar + p90s = heaven. Cool

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Zack · . Joined: 09 Nov 2008 Posts: 699 Location: Chicago

dang, that plum is pretty. not too into the les paul toggle label but I get that it's good contrast with the p'ups. nice work, as always cooter.

HNB · . Joined: 15 Apr 2012 Posts: 4089 Location: Puyallup, WA

Sexy!

sunshiner · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 10:00 am Post subject:

Thank you very much for sharing this cooterfinger, that's the really beautiful little guitar.
I have some questions about overal construction. Is the body thickness 35 mm (1.38")? Is there the angle in the neck pocket or neck just sits not very deep in the pocket to match the height of the bridge? As I noticed the shape of pickguard has some differences from the original one. What model of P90's do you use and what pots(250, 500)?

I need to say that I have the similar point of view on guitars, that should be simple in appearance, construction and use and should sound good at the same time. Also like garage/blues/punk, but the interception of these genres varies widely for each person and something that you consider as punk or garage blues can be nothing close to these genres for other people.
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cooter · . Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 1138 Location: Blue Ridge, GA

Thanks guys.

theshadowofseattle · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 11:28 am Post subject:

holy fucking shit. That looks AMAZING.
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Fakir Mustache · . Joined: 25 Sep 2013 Posts: 3143

Wow, that's very thin! So it is still very light despite the heavy material?
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cooter · . Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 1138 Location: Blue Ridge, GA

finboy · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 2:18 pm Post subject:

Amazing as always cooter, we use the same weather stripping for pickups!

speedfish · . Joined: 27 Oct 2011 Posts: 1141

Impressive.
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