Guitar Mods

This is my Ibanez AK95 Artcore series Electric Guitar


Yes it has a home made saddle, a piece of hard, Western Australian Jarrah, and no I don't think it changes the sound, not that i can tell anyway, I just wanted a different radius, although I now have the original one back on. I had put heavier gauge strings on and was getting some fret buzz, a slightly tighter radius fixed this. I'm now back to lighter strings, so back with the original saddle.


I've added a piezoelectric pickup that gets mixed with the sound of the magnetic pickups through a modified distortion pedal, in fact it no longer distorts at all. I'm able to get some really nice sounds, it adds a nice sharp attack to it, not quite like a straight acoustic, but very nice.


I've just started using my guitar strap, which is a good idea even if you play seated as I do.
The strap holds the guitar neck in a good position, so you don't have to hold as well finger the chords. This has meant relocating my little clip to the scratch guard screw, I run the cable under the scratch plate, so far so good. will put up a picture soon.

I have a plastic clip made from a milk bottle on the strap button to hold the inline RCA plug. I use low capacitance cable for both types of pickup which is important if you want to keep your high frequencies in tact.

This is the modified pedal, quite a few mods really, better frequency responce no clipping diodes in fact I can't remember all of the changes. Basically you have tone, level and on and off for the piezo via the foot switch.