Do you modify your guitars?

[peterp]

Used to do some mods back in the day when my stuff was not expensive.
Do very little now. Only changes I've made recently is put a pickup in one of my acoustics, also bought a spare pop-in tremolo arm for my strat so I could cut it down to a shortie while keeping the original intact.

I try to do repairs though if they are not difficult, replaced the input jack on my SG after the original which seemed to have no threads on it fell into the guitar, and now the pickup selector on it wont, so will need to replace that.
Great quality control they have these days.

[Hook]

No...no I don't. I break them & wear them down, natural modification I guess. So...maybe I do...
Rock On!

[The Gobi Desert Canoe Club]

Never, have  a couple of guitars that are only worth what they are because I haven't
tampered with them.

[Ferryman_1957]

I don't modify them, someone else does. When I played seriously, I had a local luthier who maintained and modded my guitars. Now I just take them down the local guitar shop for mods. I don't own any expensive guitars that will have a "vintage" value, so faffing with them makes no difference. I've always wanted a unique sound rather than a sound that is tied to a guitar. Having said that, I haven't modded by MIM Tele but I may fit some Bare Knuckle pickups to that.

Most of my sound "mods" come through effects though. I do like playing with effects on guitar sounds. Probably because that makes me sound a better player than I actually am....

[IanR]

I change the strings occasionally.  It seems to help.  I have been known to wipe down a guitar with a cloth.  And I sometimes change the battery in my electro/acoustic. 

cheers,

Ian

[Saijinn Maas]

Depends on the guitar. I have a problem with touching a guitar I paid over $1000 for... But any guitar that I paid $700 or less is pretty much fair game. I've done pretty much anything you can think of to guitars: pickup changes, re-wiring, killswitch, reshape necks, modify and/or reshape headstocks, repainting, etc.

My Dad was pissed when I was 12 and saw that I completely took my guitar apart 2 days after he bought it. Yeah.. I got a problem...

[Geir]

My Dad was pissed when I was 12 and saw that I completely took my guitar apart 2 days after he bought it. Yeah.. I got a problem...

[Boognish]

I'm pretty interested in doing some mods to an old axe...
But I'm thinking I should get a cheap one first and if I trash it I won't mind.
I never knew until recently that Brian May (Super guitar genius prodigy - probably my favorite guitarist ever) built his own guitar way back in the day with his father, and completely modded it out. To this day he still plays that guitar almost exclusively. I was most interested in his pickups and the way he gets his unique sound. Plus dude uses a sixpence coin instead of picks. How cool is that? You can really hear it to on some of his riffs when he uses the serrated edges (Keep Yourself Alive).

Here's a youtube link discussing his rig setup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ_OamX-PA8

[The Gobi Desert Canoe Club]

I've only done it once, I replaced pickups on a cheap Strat copy with DiMarzio's. It did improve the sound but took years off my life worrying that I wouldn't get it back together. Now days if one of my guitars has a problem it goes straight to a luthier who gets paid well to take the stress away.  Willie

[Blooby]

I recently rationalized keeping two 335-style guitars by putting P-90's in one.  That was two months ago, and the buddy who was doing the swap still hasn't gotten around to it.

Blooby