Ghosts of guitar projects past

Addam · Post by **Addam** » Sun Sep 13, 2015 6:09 pm

I am a champion of procrastination, I have recently dragged one out of it's grave.
It's a Swinger, I got the plans from Cooterfinger (thank you!)
The original concept started with the humbucker I took out of my red Bronco.
I read that Jimmy Page had a Swinger with a humbucker fitted in the middle position.
The neck is from a Squier Jagmaster with a hacked down headstock (it has the right number of frets for a Swinger).
I will admit the headstock isn't perfect.

I cut up a pickguard from a previous project to patch the hole from the humbucker.

It still needs a tweak om the truss rod and some screws and it wil be a guitar.
I might be digging some more projects out of their graves soon(ish)...

vojtasTS29 · Post by **vojtasTS29** » Sun Sep 13, 2015 6:17 pm

Super rad, love swingers and love modified ones

But if it was me, i would keep the hb, or installed a P-90, maybe even dogear

Addam · Post by **Addam** » Sun Sep 13, 2015 7:42 pm

With the ring around the humbucker it was too close to the strings.

I did think of making a new 'guard with just one pickup but I thought I'd go with a vintage modified vibe

and make it look like it had been modded a few times,

vojtasTS29 · Post by **vojtasTS29** » Sun Sep 13, 2015 8:03 pm

Yeah sure

I love the vintage modified vibe too, its enough to look at my guitars

I am just more a mellow sound kinda guy(unless its tele) so i seem to like humbuckers, but the guitar looks absolutely rad!

Noirie. · Post by **Noirie.** » Mon Sep 14, 2015 11:14 am

I love it. Looks amazing.

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Mon Sep 14, 2015 11:59 am

That looks good. What scale length?

Has anyone actually seen a picture of Page with the Swinger? I can't track it down.

Addam · Post by **Addam** » Tue Sep 15, 2015 3:26 pm

It's 24" Chinese Jagmaster 'conversion' neck.
I did try to find info on the seemingly mythical Jimmy Page Swinger.
I spent hours trying to find a pic or even what colour it may have been, but got nothing.
Maybe it's just Wikipedia bullshit?

Addam · Post by **Addam** » Tue Sep 15, 2015 4:16 pm

Another warmed over corpse for you.

It still needs some holes drilling and screws putting in.
This is the 3rd body and second neck this guitar has had.
The previous body was one that I made, but was just too heavy and I wanted to change the aesthestics to embrace my love for red/white.
Switching is 4 way (vol-vol/tone-eldred-esquire)

cooter · Post by **cooter** » Tue Sep 15, 2015 7:20 pm

Esquires are so classy.

Noirie. · Post by **Noirie.** » Thu Sep 17, 2015 6:26 am

Addam wrote:This is the 3rd body and second neck this guitar has had.

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speedfish · Post by **speedfish** » Thu Sep 17, 2015 1:02 pm

Addam wrote:The original concept started with the humbucker I took out of my red Bronco.
I read that Jimmy Page had a Swinger with a humbucker fitted in the middle position.

How do you like the pickup in the middle position? I have a Wayne Kramer Strat with a humbucker in the middle position, but the sound has never favored my playing.

Love the white on read. Which flavor of red is that?

Addam · Post by **Addam** » Thu Sep 17, 2015 6:17 pm

Actually, it has 500k pots so it's brighter than typical middle or neck single coils.
A previous project I had 500k pots with just a neck pickup and it was suprisingly versatile, I just used the tone control to tame it.
The red is Ford Radiant red from '80s European cars, I think it's pretty close to Fiesta red

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