LOVING my Sport

[phatduckk]

So i finally did something i never thought I'd do. I modded one of my MMs.

So, here's the deal: I love my Axis Sport but the only thing i wasn't thrilled about was the tone of the neck single coil. I had some credit to MF left over from xmas so I thought I'd buy a Duncan Lil 59er and do a little experiment.

The pup arrived late last week and I tasked my pops for a little rewriting session. So, here's my lil Sport with a lil 59er

I'm really stoked. I'm loving it even more now. I've always been a big fan of a bucker in the neck. it can totally cop the slash sort of smoothness. its pretty badass

We wired it up so that position 3 is both the neck and bridge buckers. id never played a guitar with that sort of switching. its pretty cool. its got the smoothness of the neck pickup but with some added edge. sounds great clean and overdriven.

The lil 59er splits and plays nice with the middle pickup too.

im pretty stoked. i really needed something to hold back my MM GAS while my bank account heals up

 

[Colin]

great guitar Arin

 

[phatduckk]

great guitar Arin

thanks buddy! i love the look of the sports with PGs. i got this a while back on a whim and at some point even considered selling but since ive been loving it... and the luke, and the 20th and the silo

cant wait for some tax $ so i can add a new Ball to the stable these new 08 additions are killer!

 

[Sweat]

Very cool, i am in the same boat never thought I would mod an MM but I am in the process of doing something similar, good job

 

[koogie2k]

Nice one Phatty. Sometimes you have to Mod to get the sound and tone YOU want. Nothing wrong with that.

 

[beej]

Nice, nice! Great looking Sport. Make some clips!

 

[Astrofreq]

I'll bet that thing sounds great. Have you ever thought about putting a snazzier pickguard on it? It could look amazing with a little bling.

 

[wired]

I LOVE my Sport too!

Great, great guitars. I have a standard HH Sport, but would love to pick up one w/ HSS or MM90 pups.

 

[Jimmyb]

Nice one Arin, Sports are really great guitars.

 

[Jimmyb]

I LOVE my Sport too!

Great, great guitars. I have a standard HH Sport, but would love to pick up one w/ HSS or MM90 pups.

There's a cool looking HSS on e-bay right now. Good price as well.

 

[Big Poppa]

I love those original sports and Im sure the mini 59 is cool

 

[phatduckk]

honestly... had the guitar still been in production i would not have modded it.

another huge reason to mod it was that there was 1 attribute (the neck having single coil) holding it back from being my fav guitar. this was a simple thing to homebrew and is 100% reversable so why not.

its totally gonna hold me over till i the tax guy brings me some releif

 

[phatduckk]

Nice, nice! Great looking Sport. Make some clips!

i might do this. LoL

My friend is borrowing my maudio and another excuse is the fact that you guys are all damn good and id be embarrassed remember, i just moonlight as a 6 stringer

 

[leftyguitarblue]

ultimately, it comes down to personal taste in sound. I don't need to mod my Luke, but I've had Sch*cters that I immediately changed pickups because, well, they weren't that good.

 

[phatduckk]

ultimately, it comes down to personal taste in sound. I don't need to mod my Luke.

ditto

the Luke is perfect as is. i actually love the neck single coil in that guitar. sounds warmer than my LP who's now sporting its 4th set of pickups.

I go back and forth on which neck i like better... Luke or Axis. they differ quite a bit and are both super comfy for me. i really believe the MM necks make a huge difference. even if my LP sounded great (which, to me, it doesn't) i wouldn't wanna play it due to the chubby/clubby neck. there's something to be said about the guitar being inviting to play... esp. as far as comfort goes. it can have whatever electronics it wants but if my hands hate the neck then it just doesnt matter.

Balls are just better (thanks Pops)

 

[leftyguitarblue]

Balls are just better (thanks Pops)

Bingo!

 

[PeteDuBaldo]

Arin,

The Sports are great! I dig mine for sure.

Sidenote, the second Triple XXX movie was on FX last night around midnight so I decided to watch the first one. Anyways, the band playing in the opening scene (Rammstein) has an Axis Sport HH with a pickguard in what appears to be Pearl Platinum. You can see it at 1:46 and 2:46. Seeing Arin's photos put that pickguard into my short term memory so for the 1-1/2 seconds the guitar is visible onstage in the movie, it clicked!


(for some reason I can't get Nero to do a screen capture)