Here is “razor burn “ .
I took a vintage lady’s electric shaver , and used the coil set up inside for a pick up . it actually picks up sound between the poles . and works awesome- as you can hear .
Yes, - you saw right I put the volume and tone and jack in the headstock to be different , and ran the wires down the truss rod channel .
The body was an old BC Rich warlock , I chopped it up a bit .
The routed out space in the back for the original controls poked into my new cut design , so I made it a pocket for my slide , with a piece of belt .
The star fret markers are a bunch of charms I bought in bulk a while ago.
I flipped the original bridge upside down because it holds a bolt nicely .
I used the original bridge points as stoppers for the string ends in a hinge at the tailpiece .
I cut a piece of painted plastic for a pick guard that you can’t really see in these pics too good . it hides the other pickup hole .
The black around the razor pickup is the cut original back cover .
Hope ya like her .. and you go out and start taking old electric razors apart ;-)
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there was no magnet , but the metal was slightly magnetized .. a added an earth magnet to one of the poles to give it a boost .. it does not seem to need it any more . you could just rub a magenet on it for awhile and its good to go.
i love the sound and look. and now i have a million questions was there a magnet in the razor as well. i have ttaken the coils out of ac adapters and made pickups but had to add a magnet is this similar. god i love the scream in it
thanx andy ;-)
Ive never heard a razor sound so good...
oooh . you are too kind dan ;-)
Genius!!
jeff .. lol - ya picked up on that eh ? ;-) i even played it differently ;-)
good ear ;-)
hell yeah! make a stand and realize we're living in the golden years!!
forgot to mention , the neck is a "shadow " from germany - (new oldstock - unfinished and bought from "bezdez" on ebay .) i just painted her up and sanded it down .
slow paw -"cutting edge " lol ;-)
407bug . - yup i ran the wires down the truss rod channel from the pick up to the jack . i used an old fat patch cord ( fits nicely) and connected it to the jack from the back of the headstock .
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