Axis with pick guards.How are they routed?

[marantz1300]

I'm thinking about buying an Axis, one of the ones wearing a scratch plate. How are they routed ? I already have a Silo modded for Tele pups and bridge. Its a 1990 6 bolt and is swimming pool routed.I think an Axis would be a better guitar to base these mods on, but I dont want to do any routing or mods that cant be reversed.

 

[Slav123]

Unless the pickguard was added by the owner, the original solid color Axis' with pickguards are almost impossible to find. From my understanding, not that many were produced. I always wanted one too...

Slav

 

[John C]

I'm thinking about buying an Axis, one of the ones wearing a scratch plate. How are they routed ? I already have a Silo modded for Tele pups and bridge. Its a 1990 6 bolt and is swimming pool routed.I think an Axis would be a better guitar to base these mods on, but I dont want to do any routing or mods that cant be reversed.

As far as I can recall the Axis models with pickguards are still rear-routed for the specific pickups on the guitar - so the HSS one would have 2 single coil routes and a humbucker route but no channels or control cavities, etc. like you would find on a Silhouette Special body. You could remove the pickguard on an HH model and it would look like a non-pickguard HH model except for the holes the pickguard screws left behind.

 

[GuitaRasmus]

What kind of mods are you thinking about? I have a black axis, modded with routing (professionally done) for a middle pickup, which I probably could be willing to sell:

(I still have the original neck pickup)

 

[marantz1300]

Rasmus,thats a beautiful guitar that's almost perfect. It just needs a hard tail with through body stringing. I have a 1990 6 bolt thats modded like this and feel that an Axis would be a more Tele like platform. I have been using it as a normal three pup Silo for a couple of months but prefer it T style.