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chugger-naught

well.. i bought myself a shane speal chugger 2 stringer .. and much to my dismay ... the box was glued shut ,, nailed shut ,and sealed for life . ( unlike the video in his ad that says it is just held in with a screw and you can ad piezos etc ... ) anyway ., i had dreams of ploping 4 teisco pickups on this and making a monster ,, but with the lack of room , string height, and the sealed box it was too much to altar without making a new guitar .. so i improvised ,, i changed the bridge to an old chrome teisco which raised the strings a bit .. and i took a cheap china pickup and flipped it upsidedown and placed it OVER the strings . ;-)
added a volume and tone and jack with out even cutting into the guitar .. i went through the sound holes for the controls and had to fish out the jack with an earth magnet to get it to the hole i drilled . and "TADAA! ": . we have a shane sealpick chuggernaught . ;-)
cause its "naught " really a chugger any more .
its much better i must say . ;-)
hope ya like her .
( im just trying different sound checks on her here . )
(there's before and after pics in there too . )

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Comment by the anonymous pick on October 9, 2011 at 4:24am: which is perfectly fine , unless they are advertised as otherwise ;-)

Comment by StarrCBGs(Donovan) on October 9, 2011 at 3:41am: I also like for my gits to have a good acoustic sound first after all they were at first acoustic and the way I install the necks doesnt allow for the box to be opened.

Comment by StarrCBGs(Donovan) on October 9, 2011 at 3:35am: I always glue the boxes shut. I dont trust cigar boxes to stay together as it is and if I didnt glue them together I would worry about them for sure. Quality and stability is first in any of my builds.

Comment by the anonymous pick on October 8, 2011 at 8:47pm: oh   , i wasn't dissing shane or his work , it's a great lil finished   product if   one was buying it for that reason .

i , however, was buying it with the intention / option   of adding on (as advertised ) . so the glue and nails were a surprize .

the ad in the store showed a video of the old style chugger , that's where it was said it was just a screw holding it in place and you could add to piezos / pickups to it etc . the other differences were mentioned .. the glue and nails were not . just an over sight in making the ad   i guess . no biggy .

plus it all worked out anyway ;-)

Comment by the anonymous pick on October 8, 2011 at 1:01pm: sleep now john , so i can steal some more info ;-)

Comment by jabes on October 8, 2011 at 5:45am: oh no!!

Comment by the anonymous pick on October 8, 2011 at 4:22am: it will be assimilated .. resistance is futile
;-)

Comment by Spike on October 8, 2011 at 4:11am: 2 string chugger......now available with added testosterone!

Comment by the anonymous pick on October 7, 2011 at 11:38pm: remote viewing & mind reading ... my other hobby ;-)

lol.

Comment by jabes on October 7, 2011 at 11:30pm: this is bizarre- as i was drifting off to sleep the upsidedown pickup crossed my mind- now this morning i see this!!!

nice to see problem solving at work..;)