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Originally Posted by AllanAllen
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10-03-2024 12:26 PM
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Originally Posted by HiFi Mule2Ride
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Originally Posted by supersoul
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Originally Posted by HiFi Mule2Ride
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Mark Campellone uses a full-length strip, not just small cleats. Very obvious in the photos of his builds.
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Originally Posted by AllanAllen
That looks really clean and tidy. Did you install the bumblebee caps yourself?
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Originally Posted by Little Jay
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Originally Posted by AllanAllen
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Originally Posted by AllanAllen
I love copies and cheap pickups/effects. I seem to be able to get them to sound great.
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Originally Posted by DawgBone
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Cleats!
If this is of any interest for the insides of guitars.
First picture is of a new one I'm renovating. No cleats down the middle seam, but I added cleats at the ends of the sound holes, on the advice of some folks here, as a preventative. There is another cleat lower down to stabilize a crack in the top, which I also filled with a sliver of spruce. I think the back actually has cleats on the center seam, but I don't have a picture for some reason.
The bottom two are of the same guitar with the dust ball earlier. Cleats down the center seam of the front and back. That block of wood isn't attached, it was from some clamping I had been doing, and I guess I forgot to take it out when I took the picture.
They're both pretty. They would make good wall art, except then they wouldn't be guitars.
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Hey; how about some ‘Inside the Guitar’ pics?
2012 L5-CT
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Originally Posted by HiFi Mule2Ride
I don't know the brand names of either, but I've looked at a ton of German archtop websites, and both are definitely German. I bought them in Germany. And yes, both have the Stauffer bolt. It uses a key that is usually used for winding up clocks.
And I was just saying that they are beautiful objects, but I really don't like instruments to become decorations. When I work on them sometimes I just look at how cool they are! But their main purpose is to make sound.
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Originally Posted by garybaldy
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The new innards I installed in my Gibson L5ces:
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Originally Posted by lawson-stone
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I’m surprised and L5 needed anything replaced.
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Originally Posted by lawson-stone
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My DIY ES-330:
Ibanez AF55:
Condor ES-175 copy:
Furch G-1:
Gretsch 2420T:
Sigma J-45 copy:
Gibson ES-333:
Gibson ES-125: (missing sound bars)
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What does missing sound bars mean?
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Originally Posted by Little Jay
Your ES-330 copy is cool. You've shown it in other threads and it looks like a great guitar.
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Originally Posted by AllanAllen
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Originally Posted by supersoul
And yes, the back has braces. It is flat and braced like an acoustic. It’s a feauture of the early post war ES-125, between ‘48-‘50.
Which pickup?
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