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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 BUGGY (C) on November 20, 2011 at 9:46pm: i've just noticed where tha cable runs!..... wow

Comment by BUGGY (C) on November 20, 2011 at 9:43pm: love that pick up... that works a treat!

Comment by Slowpaw Steve T on November 20, 2011 at 8:45pm: Cutting edge...!! (-:

Comment by the anonymous pick on November 20, 2011 at 5:07pm: thank you uncle john ;-) glad ya like it ;-)

Comment by Uncle John on November 20, 2011 at 10:04am: That is funky cool. Creative.

Comment by the anonymous pick on November 20, 2011 at 8:54am: thanks wes , justin ;-)

Comment by Justin Mantelli on November 20, 2011 at 8:48am: Amazing man looks so bad ass!

Comment by the anonymous pick on November 20, 2011 at 8:07am: thanx bone ;-) yup ,, some wacky and cool design ideas in this one . ;-)

Comment by Low Budget Luthier on November 20, 2011 at 7:24am: wacky cool

Comment by the anonymous pick on November 20, 2011 at 6:16am: thanx guys . i'm still getting used to the controls in the headstock ;-)

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