_pete_ Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 I decided to build an exact replica of one of Alex's "Hentor Sportscasters". They were really just modded Strats that Alex used during the GUP/PW era. I had a ton of parts and just needed a body and neck to complete it and I found just what I needed on Ebay tonight. What I still need is a good pic of the headstock. Alex put a "Hentor Sportscaster" logo on his and I want to try to match it. Here's a pic of the guitar from the video of "The Enemy Within". http://forums.rennlist.com/upload/cap248.jpg This one will be just about identical. I'll post pics when it's done. If anyone has a headstock pic, please let me know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-0-0-1-0-0-1 Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 I know I have a pic here somewhere...lemme look around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-0-0-1-0-0-1 Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 QUOTE (1-0-0-1-0-0-1 @ Jan 17 2006, 11:56 PM) I know I have a pic here somewhere...lemme look around. Found it. I'll bring it into work tomorrow and scan it, and post it in here. How will you get the letters onto the headstock? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowdog Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 Ok, I see, you're building it I thought you wanted pics of a real Sportscaster I was about to ask you to send me some left handed picks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_pete_ Posted January 18, 2006 Author Share Posted January 18, 2006 QUOTE (1-0-0-1-0-0-1 @ Jan 18 2006, 01:58 AM) QUOTE (1-0-0-1-0-0-1 @ Jan 17 2006, 11:56 PM) I know I have a pic here somewhere...lemme look around. Found it. I'll bring it into work tomorrow and scan it, and post it in here. How will you get the letters onto the headstock? Thanks! I bought some inkjet waterslide paper. Once you have the logo printed and applied on the headstock, you spray a light clearcoat over it and it lasts forever. BTW, the pic I posted is from "The Body Electric" not "The Enemy Within". Oops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-0-0-1-0-0-1 Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 Pete, what will you use for this? Photoshop? And do you have a scanner? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_pete_ Posted January 18, 2006 Author Share Posted January 18, 2006 QUOTE (1-0-0-1-0-0-1 @ Jan 18 2006, 11:51 AM) Pete, what will you use for this? Photoshop? And do you have a scanner? Yeah I have photoshop and a scanner. I did find a headstock pic in the GUP tourbook and I think I have the right fonts although it was a little hard to see it clearly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CygnusX-1Bk2 Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 Yeah, the picture from GUP is the one I was trying to find online. That's the best shot of the Hentor Sportscaster headstock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-0-0-1-0-0-1 Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 I scanned this from the Visions book. I tried to bring out the detail as best I could, but it was a crappy photo. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/1001001/hentor.jpg It's definitely the same font for both words, and it's a pretty common font. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_pete_ Posted January 28, 2006 Author Share Posted January 28, 2006 (edited) I finished this up late last night. It turned out better than I'd hoped and really sounds great. The parts I used are Lace Holy Grail HG1000 neck and middle pickups, an old Bill Lawrence L500 bridge pickup, an early Floyd Rose, Planet Waves locking tuners, Mighty Mite neck, and a white alder Strat body of unknown brand. The wiring scheme really worked good. The guitar is very versatile and every combination sounds unique and very nice. The Gibson toggle is wired for bridge/bridge & neck/neck. The mini switch turns on the middle pickup, and the tone control has a push/pull switch to split coils on the bridge pickup. The Floyd stays in tune great and I used a Floyd Rose trem stop set for dive only so I can use this guitar in different tunings (Between the Wheels, Big Money, Stick it Out). I ordered the matte black pickguard from Warmoth with only the 2 single coil cuts. I wanted to put the pots and switches where I wanted them and I routed the bridge pickup hole so it would fit the Lawrence pickup exactly. The L500 is smaller and has more rounded corners than a standard humbucker. I tried to get as close to Alex's guitar as I could but still set it up with a few more features that I like. Here's pics of Alex's original: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/STPBL/cap248.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/STPBL/cap254.jpg http://www.shadowedsouls.com/images/alex23.jpg And here are pics of my new replica: http://forums.rennlist.com/upload/hentor1.jpg http://forums.rennlist.com/upload/hentor5.jpg http://forums.rennlist.com/upload/hentor3.jpg http://forums.rennlist.com/upload/hentor6.jpg http://forums.rennlist.com/upload/hentor4.jpg Edited January 28, 2006 by pete, the old guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drumnut Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 Awesome work Pete!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-0-0-1-0-0-1 Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 Excellent work! It looks killer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_pete_ Posted January 28, 2006 Author Share Posted January 28, 2006 Thanks! I finished setting it up this morning and...Dayummmm! It's a little bit bright sounding for early or late Rush, but it is absolutely perfect for the GUP-PW era. I ran through Between the Wheels, Enemy Within, Red Sector A, and Big Money and it has that sound nailed! I'm really shocked at how much it sounds like Alex's guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biggoodie Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 I like the lettering on the headstock, it looks much cleaner than Alex's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-0-0-1-0-0-1 Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 QUOTE (biggoodie @ Jan 30 2006, 10:52 PM) I like the lettering on the headstock, it looks much cleaner than Alex's It's tough to tell how clean it is on Alex's because all the photos of his headstock are pretty blurry. But Pete's came out real good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ES-335 Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 Nice work Pete!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hentorstrat Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 Nice Job Pete, ...............................HMMMMMMMMMM..............You may have me on the copy-cat wagon.....LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_baron Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 I'm thinking about to build a copy of the black Strat BTW awesome work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_pete_ Posted April 17, 2007 Author Share Posted April 17, 2007 Wow, old thread. The Hentor has gotten a new body (not as white) and a new pickup (the correct one)since this thread started. http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h247/pete2112/My%20Guitars/Hentor9.jpg It also gained a brother. http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h247/pete2112/DSCN1746.jpg http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h247/pete2112/DSCN1749.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CygnusX-1Bk2 Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Nice job Pete! Our guitar player just put together a similar red guitar but he opted for 2 double coils. He isn't going for an exact replica. He was replacing his main guitar and found a red body and a mirror pickguard. He accidentally ran over his curly purple one. Long story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefunk Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Hehe, I want to hear that story! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CygnusX-1Bk2 Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 (edited) Ok then. Chris, the guitar player in my band Trilogy, is also a guitar teacher. Every summer he does 2 "Sound Wall" band camps for his students and other students in the SF Bay Area. They are 1 week events held at UC Santa Cruz and cover rock and roll style playing for budding guitarists, bassists and drummers. At the beginning of the week bands are assigned and must work on material to be performed on the final day of camp. All of the teachers supply instruments and amps with some help from local dealers. Anyway Chris was packing up his car from the end of the second week as the sun was going down. He had 2 guitars with him, a black Tele he liked and his main strat, with a purple curly maple top. Both lived in identical gig bags. He leaned them up against his car as he was loading up, not realizing one of the gig bags had fallen to the ground. Thinking he had loaded everything he started to move his car, backing out of the spot he was in. His rear tire went up and over something and he heard a loud crunch. He looked in his rear view to see the one gig bag atop the rest of his gear. He hoped it was the Tele, but he knew what he had done. When he retrieved the bag he pulled out his now mangled guitar. The neck (which was a nice bird's eye maple) was snapped at the body. The body itself was mostly intact, but for a long crack from the lower cutaway bout through to past the neck pickup. The neck was a total loss but he thought the body could be salvaged and managed to put another neck on it but the tone was not what it had been. So he found a candy apple body. After he got the body he stumbled upon the mirror pickguard and had the idea to make a Hentor like guitar since we've been doing the Rush thing. That has now become his main guitar replacing the purple one. And that's the story. So at our gig next week we will both be debuting our new fiddles, as I just recently got a Geddy. Chris and his former guitar http://home.earthlink.net/~trilogy-band/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/chris1.jpg Edited April 18, 2007 by CygnusX-1Bk2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesweetscience Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 I wish I had that kind of skill. How exactly do you learn to build guitars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CygnusX-1Bk2 Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 These are made from kits which are readily available. He uses a company called Warmoth for bodies and necks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefunk Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Thanks for the story, CygnusX. It's a shame about the former guitar, but I think a red mirrored Hentor style guitar is probably a pretty good substitute. If it looks as good as the one Pete made then I'm dead jealous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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