8888 Visitors!

Thank you for visiting my blogsite and going through my humble collection of repairs and modifications! Although this site counter was not implemented when this blog started and does not represent the time and effort i've put into my work. I'm still glad that i've now 8888 visits!

The Gr3y Story(simplified)
The story started since the first day i took the daring attempt to risk modifying on my own electric guitar. I wanted something that looks different and special but i was a kid and cannot afford anything expensive. My friends who were richer were all using nice guitars with fancy appearance and those artist on tv is always using something that would cost over 2-3k!

Although that first guitar i modified did not successfully leave the surgery table, i never stop and gave up. The first ever guitar i did all the damage on was a Vantage sunburst superstrat which i bought off cashconvertor(I don't even know where are the guitar shops in Singapore back than)

It was later painted into chrome. Sadly i can't find any of the photo though i do remember taking them. The chrome didn't work out and was ready for a backup plan soon after. So i sanded it and got it repainted. Eddie was very much influencing me that time and thus the following color scheme. Ok i admit i'm being ambitious to paint a chrome and later a frankenstrat color theme when i don't really know how to paint a guitar. But it's this ambitious mind that kept me going.

The guitar may look presentable in this photo but the real thing is not as it seems. The cavity filling is really bad, the paintjob is very uneven and i even tried scalloping on the board but it's a big mess. At current stage, the guitar's neck is already warped and i'm only keeping it as a display in my room. I'm still proud of it being my first ever guitar modification project. Also, the headstock bears the name of a person i adores :)

If you are a budding repair/modification enthusiast thinking about trying out guitar repairs etc, my piece of advice is that this is not something that you can do when you know the steps. There are tones of information floating online(e.g. my tutorials) and as well as in books and video. I'm sure you could google it easily. However, it is much like cooking, the receipe is only there as a guide. To succeed, trail and error at own cost(time,money and effort) is unavoidable. Patience is the key element :)

I'm not sure where will this never ending quest of guitar modding and repairing leads me to but whatever it is, i'm very thankful for all that allowed my quest and hobby to live on! Without you guys, i can't possibly be modding that much of guitars(i can't possibly own lots and lots of guitar right?)

Cheers to 8888 visitors!

Best Regards,
Vincent

A nice recap!

I'm glad someone knows about me and he sent me a pm.

Hi Vincent,

It's Phil here, if you remember, I sent you a PM asking you if you were Vincent Mah.

Anyway, I've been in this forum for a long time, and so have you. I've always seen you posting, and I've also seen and spoken to you in Maestro Guitars. I bought lots of Lyric HG from you guys.

But, I've never reconciled the Maestro Vincent with Gr3y, until recently.

Anyway, I checked out your website and everything, very impressive. I remember reading and replying in the thread whereby you first started out cutting pickguards. And since then when people ask about customing pickguards, we'll always refer them to Gr3y. Haha, but nowadays I'm hardly active in the SOFT forums anymore. It's just different now, but that's another story altogether.

Anyway, nice to meet you. And, guess what. I'm working for Maestro now, just ORDed not long ago, and while waiting for Uni to start, I got a part time job doing retail. Too bad you've left, it'd have been fun.

Lastly, I'm considering getting you to do some jobs for my guitars! There's just so many ideas, I loved the inlay you did. That could work out great on my guitar. And the respraying of the pedal as well, that's good news. I've a CMATmods Deeelay that I love to death but it looks plain ugly with the matted silver coating.
And the Tree of Life is tempting as well, I've Prestige 1570 that might need some sprucing up.
So tempting, eh.

Well, have fun with whatever you're doing now, and congrats on the album launch!

regards,
Phil

Testimonials

I have nothing to say but your job is top notch. I'm very pleased and happy with the workmanship. Furthermore what impressed me was your regular updates and pics on the status of the job which I say is really service oriented. Not many people will take that step into giving regular updates u noe. Keep up the good work and I might just have another work for you in the coming future.

Regards,
Razi (owner of custom JPM fingerboard)