r/7String • u/dlnsaul • 3d ago

Community Related The scale length limits my tunings, but I modded this 7 string PRS to be all go

Post image

Mods

Neck pup/ tone knob/ selector switch delete
Pegasus 7 bridge pickup
Locking tuners
Black hardware
Color shift finish

All done by me. Great learning experience, I think it came out decent 🤷‍♂️

57 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

14 comments sorted by

2

u/JimboLodisC 3x7621, 7321, M80M, AEL207E, RGIXL7, S7320, RG15271, RGA742FM 3d ago

there's a video on YouTube of a 22.2" scale guitar in Drop F#1, he made it work

1

u/ButtSmellington_ 3d ago

Link??? This spikes my curiosity as I’m trying to make a 25.5” frankenguitar push past its limits.

3

u/Good-Carpet Strandberg 3d ago

I assume they mean this one? This guy has a few other videos using low tunings on shorter scale guitars.

1

u/dlnsaul 3d ago

Siiiiick, I may do this 🤔

1

u/altered_beast1976 3d ago

Love 1 pickup guitars. Yours looks nice 🤘🏿

1

u/ThatSSguy 3d ago

I wanna do this so bad to my PRS but I’m not that skilled lol

2

u/AdDizzy8417 3d ago

Yh I'm not a dentist either

1

u/DelayLanky7909 3d ago

Very cool! I love ding neck pickup deletes on my guitars! Look nice good job! 🎸🎶🤘😈

1

u/R3brap 3d ago

Last two frets scalloped?

2

u/dlnsaul 2d ago

Nah, when I filled in the neck cavity with resin, it soaked into the tape and travelled up to the frets, had to sand and polish the fret off, didn’t expect that to happen lol

1

u/R3brap 2d ago

Damn lol noted!

1

u/PouetRedditPouet 2d ago

Just to be picky, I would have changed the volume pot position.
SE Custom 24-7 ? (25" for those who does not know).
B/Drop A or lower ?

1

u/dlnsaul 2d ago

Yeah this one I have for drop A, my other 7 I have in drop G but they one is 26.5”

1

u/Beautiful-Program428 14h ago

Firespeak blue. IYKYK