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Gibson Ripper rescue


neepheid
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Sorry for the lack of updates. Refinish is ongoing, no more shiny pics of that at the moment. Tonight I made a mounting bracket for the choke coil. I took a PC blanking plate:



And after some drilling, bending, cutting and filing I ended up with this:



This idea is taken from the later Rippers (early ones had a small bracket soldered to the side of the pot), this one basically acts as a washer on the pot shaft. So with it attached it looks like this:





And the choke will sit like this, with an M5 machine screw straight through the whole thing and bolted to the bracket (don't have one at the moment)





Also tided up the pots - some of them had wires soldered to them and tags soldered to the casings which needed freeing up. I'm going to do all the wiring soon.

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[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1391548272' post='2358541']
Without wanting to sound un-cool and that, what does the choke do?

Apart from getting it to fire up on a frosty morning
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The choke (inductor) is part of an LC circuit (inductor/capacitor) which acts as a mid filter. The mid pot will progressively scoop out mids but I think I read somewhere that it also alters the impedance of the circuit so the effect it has on the sound isn't as clear cut as that. It'll be fun finding out :)

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I'm interested in how this turns out. I have an old shape Ripper that I think must be 1974. When I got through the black paint someone had sprayed over everything, I found the body was Alder, which was a surprise. It's good though, lovely grain and 2lbs lighter than the 1978 maple one.

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