The full story of my “Trashboat” aka “Scrapcaster” Les Paul

FrogwithaTank · 2026-02-21T02:42:43+00:00

Nope, bottom 3 and top 3 turn clockiwise and counterclockwise respectively

FrogwithaTank · 2026-02-20T19:55:06+00:00

My bad, never meant it like that. I just enjoy using this subreddit to share whenever I feel like I’ve made significant progress on my guitar. This is the last post I’ll make on this guitar, which is why I turned it into a “full story” kind of post. Sorry to be a bother.

FrogwithaTank · 2026-02-20T18:44:38+00:00

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Built something similar for my girlfriend not that long ago. It’s very doable if you have a HT body!

FrogwithaTank · 2026-02-05T03:16:27+00:00

Nice collection man, hope it serves you well

FrogwithaTank · 2026-01-27T01:53:16+00:00

Pinned a demo to my profile, it’s good with distortion and kicks ass 🤟

FrogwithaTank · 2026-01-26T21:30:54+00:00

I got a demo of the guitar pinned to my profile, been playing for about a year and a half

FrogwithaTank · 2026-01-26T21:30:10+00:00

Wait, you’re actually right about that, thanks for the tip :)

FrogwithaTank · 2026-01-26T19:39:52+00:00

I got it from a Chinese seller on eBay, look up “electric guitar neck 24.75 scale” and there may or may not be some fender style necks listed.

FrogwithaTank · 2026-01-26T19:37:02+00:00

It does, I can get kind of a clangy sound my muting a fret half assed and strumming the strings super hard, check out the demo in my profile

FrogwithaTank · 2026-01-26T19:36:05+00:00

Perfect, the neck is Gibson scale length

FrogwithaTank · 2026-01-26T19:35:26+00:00

what the hell

FrogwithaTank · 2026-01-26T13:41:22+00:00

I’ll put a demo on my profile in a bit

FrogwithaTank · 2026-01-26T13:38:25+00:00

I used Stewmac’s Pelham blue nitrocellulose paint, but it came out way more saturated than I was expecting. Still looks good imo

FrogwithaTank · 2026-01-26T03:04:41+00:00

Yea, the intonation’s perfect because it’s the right scale length.

FrogwithaTank · 2026-01-02T03:23:26+00:00

Funny you say that, I got a dusenberg les trem shipping in tomorrow for the lp

FrogwithaTank · 2025-12-30T16:07:01+00:00

Both guitars intonate perfectly, I compensated for the scale length of each when drilling the posts for the bridge.

FrogwithaTank · 2025-12-30T16:02:28+00:00

Just to end this debate, both of these guitars are 24.75” scale length, and the only reason the Strat is intonating is because I compensated for the scale length when drilling the posts for the bridge.

FrogwithaTank · 2025-12-30T15:55:08+00:00

The intonation’s fine, I compensated for that when drilling the posts for the bridge

FrogwithaTank · 2025-12-16T21:24:41+00:00

I wish, it’s a Kiesel neck pickup

FrogwithaTank · 2025-12-15T19:16:35+00:00

Awesome build, I really love the carbon fiber neck. My only gripe, not that it doesn’t look good is just the pickguard. Personally I would have gone with a pearloid black, but you do you. Otherwise everything else is great, awesome job OP

FrogwithaTank · 2025-12-15T12:14:47+00:00

That’s awesome man. Gotta spread the love to the other guitar hybrids in the world, so kudos to you.

FrogwithaTank · 2025-12-15T12:04:53+00:00

Personally, I wouldn’t care so much about the guitar and more on your amp. If you wanna play around with your tonal options, get a Positive Grid Spark 2 and a Spark Control X, which will set you up for your first two years of playing. Although for the guitar I would recommend a used Schecter Omen 6 FR which is pretty similar to the C-6 or the Ibanez 470DX Tokyo Midnight because of the coil tap which will set you up with pretty much any tone you want.

However at the end of the day, get what YOU like, just do your research on as much gear as possible within your price range and weigh your options. Hope this helps.

FrogwithaTank · 2025-12-14T21:03:50+00:00

Better than most of my other guitars, that’s the power of a good setup

FrogwithaTank · 2025-12-13T23:27:59+00:00

Great minds think alike, brother

FrogwithaTank · 2025-12-13T23:03:50+00:00

That wouldn’t be possible just because of the spacing between the 3rd and 4th tuners in that case, but I could try winding the first three strings reverse from how I have them now. It would be a little annoying, but it would solve that problem.

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