MY MINI GUITAR POJECT

StewMac mini guitar kit with my modifications

It is unplyable but it looks great to me!

Mini Guitar Kit With Mods

10`000 years ago StewMac

offered this cheap baby guitar kit.

Basswood body, maple neck and two very cheap singlecoils which I replaced with these lipsticks.

I also upgraded the thing with Sperzel locking tuners but I still can`t get it in tune and play it.

The pickguard that came with the kit looked like a normal Strat pickguard. But I had to find my own solution that I still like a lot.

I made my little son choose a colour and then dyed the body accordingly and I designed my owen 4+2 headstock.

... and also a new wiring:

I think one switch choses between series and parallel wiring and the other chooses between the pickups.

The scale is so short that I never knew what strings to use and that I never played the little sucker.

(scale length is approx. 41,7 cm / 16,4")

The guitar was meant to seduce my little son to become a guitar player.

Unfortunately this never happened and the boy is almost 16 now, WAS a wonderful and giftet drummer but has quit drumming in order to smoke weed and give me a hard time...

I`m not even sure if the wiring ever really worked... I can`t remember... this thing is 10 years old at least and it was one of my first attempts to wire a guitar.

No matter if it works or not:

I adore the way this guitar looks and I think I should build a grown-up version!

the original pickguard and the body before I dyed it.

For some time I used the kit`s neck with a different body that contained a mini amp .

one of these littel Marshall pocket amps was "transplanted" in this new housing...

one of theses suckers was torn to pieces in order to build this guitar body.

I made a new front panel from mother-of-toile-seat, an sah body with a walnut top and pickup access from the back.

Bridge missing. The Bo Diddley inspired body design wasn`t perfect.

StewMac mini guitar kit

with new body

and built-in Marshall pocket amp

I was in a hurry when I decided to build this thing.

I wanted a travel guitar with built in amp. So I ruined one of these little Marshall pocket amps and built this odd guitar body inspired by Bo Diddley`s great simplistic rectangular Gretsches.

I rushed but I didn`t make it. The thing wasn`t completed in time. I had trouble with the electronics and I think I fucked up something on these Marshall`s electronics...

I had to catch my train.

So I went on holidays without the guitar and never finished it. No idea whether I still have this body.

Years later I built a new travel-guitar,

a completely different one.

See it on my STEINBERGER-site.

click here.