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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Comment by the anonymous pick on June 12, 2012 at 4:52am

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.

Comment by bill on June 12, 2012 at 4:17am

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

Comment by the anonymous pick on November 26, 2011 at 3:51am

thanx andy ;-)

Comment by ANDOMANDO,,also known as ANDY on November 26, 2011 at 2:35am

Ive never heard a razor sound so good...

Comment by the anonymous pick on November 21, 2011 at 9:12am

oooh . you are too kind dan  ;-)

Comment by Dan Jackson on November 21, 2011 at 6:20am

Genius!!

Comment by the anonymous pick on November 21, 2011 at 3:37am

jeff .. lol  -   ya picked up on that eh ? ;-)  i even played it differently  ;-)

good ear   ;-)

 

Comment by jeff maurer on November 21, 2011 at 3:28am

hell yeah! make a stand and realize we're living in the golden years!!

Comment by the anonymous pick on November 21, 2011 at 2:35am

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 .

Comment by the anonymous pick on November 21, 2011 at 12:22am

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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