Santana III transformation: from Playa to Slaya

[Tele295]

With that bridge on a Santana, you’ve just about got a Westie (West Street Ltd. Ed.), right? Maybe different pickups

 

[sergiodeblanc]

Are those metal pup rings?

Yeah

 

[Tahlee]

I ordered these East Indian rosewood tuner buttons to compliment the fretboard.

crazyparts.de

 

[Alnus Rubra]

And it just gets better and better!

 

[Tahlee]

I thought that the tuner buttons would look great in rosewood, but I didn’t want the truss rod cover to be the same material as the fretboard. I really like how the black knobs look on the body, so I went with ebony for the knobs, switch tip, and truss rod cover.

These parts are from Crazyparts in Germany so they may take a little while to get here.

 

[Tahlee]

I’ll tell you what...I do not think that I will be able to swap out these Santana pickups. They are very good. I’m often unhappy with neck pickups but this one is fantastic.

I guess I’ll put on the brass tremolo and see how the chrome pickups look. Maybe I’ll pop off the chrome covers?

 

[Tone-y]

I've just ordered a rosewood electrics cover plate for my PRS from crazyparts last night. Unfortunately I also had an email saying it would take 6-8 weeks. Something to look forward to I suppose

 

[Tahlee]

It will be worth the wait. Their stuff is quite nice.

 

[WA Paul]

Beautiful guitars and Mann Trems are great!

SCT is my favorite design, happy forthcoming NGD!

 

[Tahlee]

Beautiful guitars and Mann Trems are great!

SCT is my favorite design, happy forthcoming NGD!

Thank you very much. I haven’t made a NGD thread about it yet, but it’s here and I love it.

 

[Grapeshot]

Is that Raspberry?

 

[Tahlee]

Is that Raspberry?

It was advertised as Black Cherry.

 

[Alnus Rubra]

Wow that’s some gorgeous flame!

 

[bodia]

Nice!

 

[Tahlee]

I still haven’t swapped out the tremolo. Every time I think about working on the Santana, I play it instead. I suppose that’s a really good sign. It sounds great.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

C’mon, entertain us. Think of the children.

 

[Tahlee]

C’mon, entertain us. Think of the children.

Well Sergio, you asked to be entertained...I’ve started the project and apparently I have a helper.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

YES!!!!

 

[Tahlee]

 

[Tahlee]