Spector attacked me at the pawn shop

[Al Nico]

Fixed now, cleaned up, and setup.

 

Flattened the neck and socket.

 

While the neck is off it got a wash in antibaterial hand soap and a fret polish using a kit that came with some D'addario strings.

It's a very simple solution. Here's the before:

 

Now a quick rub - behave.

 

Nice.

 

So now it is back together. It fitted together in a slightly different place. A few more tweaks of truss rod and saddles brought it into shape a little better than before.

That's about as good as it gets, and it's not bad.

Ready to go from my bedroom woodwork workshop and polishing area, to my bedroom electronics department for new pots.

 

 

[cetera]

Nice. Sounds great on your vid too, really cuts through with a lovely throaty lo-mid growl.

 

Just so you know, those inlays on the neck are aftermarket stickers, but nicely done. There will be dots underneath them....

Always preferred the full inlays myself so looks great!

[Al Nico]

18 hours ago, cetera said:

Nice. Sounds great on your vid too, really cuts through with a lovely throaty lo-mid growl.

 

Just so you know, those inlays on the neck are aftermarket stickers, but nicely done. There will be dots underneath them....

Always preferred the full inlays myself so looks great!

Thank you. Yes, the bridge pickup is so close to the bridge it makes wild mid range sounds, and without a preamp. I like that. No battery.

 

Here's the plan. I've ordered a 'Custom Series - Crafted in America' headstock label from the web to replace the old 'Made in China' sticker. It will validate the inlays, and increase the instruments value to around £9,500.00. Cunning eh?

[Al Nico]

I've been working on a wiring diagram for my latest idea. There is some method behind the madness:

In everyday use I run with both pickups, tone and volumes full.

To get more middle, turn the neck pickup down a bit, less middle, turn the bridge pickup down a bit.

If I use a pick, I may turn the tone down on one of the pickups if I don't need all the click.

I haven't got a taping kill switch, and really ought to have one.

 

So here's the circuit I came up with.

The two pots represent a logarithmic MN taper pot that is built as one pot to make a centre notched pickup blend control. Easy to turn one pickup down a bit.

Then there are two tone switches. Quick selecting pre-set low pass.

Then a tapping kill switch (Break signal switch-Normally Closed, Press = mute) That will be fun.

 

 

The circuit analyser says it's all in phase and won't be hum cancelling. It may be because the pickups are single coil in the model. A bit more research there needed.

I intend to replicate the existing low pass filter spec. They have a subtle effect, just enough to take the growl out. No need to experiment, someone has already done that it seems.

I'd be interested to hear any comments or suggestions/improvements.

 

Edit: I've already had an idea. Looking for switches, the nice ones are the classic 3 way Les Paul type. I could upgrade the 2 way tone switches to 3 way and have a second pre-set tone with a lower dark shelf. Might be overkill?

Edited 8 hours ago by Al Nico