Someday I will own a guitar that looks like a truck top camper!!

Rough Layout of the Project

I started thinking about taking a kit guitar I received from a friend and making it into a cherry red SG with a gold Bigsby vibrato. But when I thought about it I realized that you can buy a cherry red SG with a gold Bigsby. It is a common model. So I was walking around looking for inspiration and I saw a plaque screwed on the front of a decrepit old camper. I decided that would look nice on a guitar so I started salvaging parts off the camper to include in the guitar that had a new inspiration that I personally haven't seen before.

In this blog I am going to write about my progress in creating the Camper guitar. It may go through some rough spells and it might come out iffy but by gosh it will make some sort of sound when I plug it into an amp on its maiden voyage into the world.

Using Dremel to flush mount the plaque.

For electronics I decided on 3 standard pickups and an acoustic pickup. Two of the pickups are scrapped from an ESP that I replaced with Seymour Duncan Blackouts. I thought I could make a solid 4 coil brick at the bridge that would run pretty hot being wired in series to a single volume and no tone. On the acoustic side of things I am going to try having a volume, tone and a push pull that redirects the output to a separate jack. That way I can have it in the mix to a single amp or pull up on the tone to send the acoustic electronics to a separate amp. 

So I was sitting there looking at the SG body with this huge king like plaque trying to figure out how to place it. After a while of observing I settled on at the bottom where the horns of the guitar lined up with the points in the crown. I noticed the plaque was a little thick so I thought it would be neat to flush mount the whole thing into the body. With a pencil trace and a Dremel I am on my way to building the Camper guitar. Stay tuned for future updates to this project.

Close to being flush