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You can get the foam in two thicknesses - about 2mm and about 6mm.
Its cheap enough so maybe get both thicknesses in black.
Then some crappy carpet tape - the thin stuff with a polymer layer and sticky on both sides.
This combination is useful for many things in my opinion.
Chris
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11-13-2012 10:31 PM
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A firend of mine put some foam under the bezel.
The problem has disappeared almost 100%.
Now , i'm happy with my eastman.Nice guitar!
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I find that once I get a serious issue resolved with a guitar I no longer feel the urge to play that guitar. Time for the ES125 lol.
Originally Posted by sylvain54000
Nice vids by the way.
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Hey Sylvain,
C'est génial d'entendre que vous avez une solution.
Vibration contre la bague de fixation PU (lunette) est un problème classique - alors un grand merci pour votre bonne description.
Har-har, my lousy French sounds really stiff and archaic I think. Great that you have a solution.
Chris
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Thanks christopher , where did you learn your french , sounds good Originally Posted by PTChristopher
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reminds me of when we got a piano and everytime i played A below middle C, i would hear some strange wood vibration. I spent months walking around the instrument while my wife played the note, listening intently for the problem. I even removed some of the wood casework thinking a piece of moulding, etc....no luck. Then one day, someone was playing the piano and i was standing near a picture frame on the wall that started buzzing when he played that A...aha!
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>>> Thanks christopher , where did you learn your french , sounds good
I had an apartment in Ville-d'Avray (adjacent to the oddly named Forêt de Fausses-Reposes) way back before the internet and such - so I had to get the basic idea of French pretty quickly.
It feels like it was several lifetimes ago.
Chris
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Whenever I have loose vibrations I use yellow tack (except that I use the white tack which doesn't tend to stain the guitar as much)
en francais patafix
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Now I feel embarrassed that I have the same guitar as someone as excellent and artist as Sylvain.
Sylvain can I ask if you fixed that distortion issue, I have exactly the same sound on the 2 pick up model of the 503. Distortion is exactly how I would describe it. It is not the pick guard as I can make it distort whilst pushing the pick guard down.
PS Really admire your work
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Comon sa va, Sylvain? I've had similar distortions on archtops, and a couple of things that haven't been mentioned yet: if the grooves in the bridge are too deep, too wide or too V-shaped, the string can vibrate in a pattern that bounces it around in the groove and produces a distorted sound. It's worse with more than one note at a time. I fixed a problem like that on a very expensive guitar once by replacing the bridge sections with new and carefully grooving the bridge sections to just barely hold the strings. The same thing can happen with a wooden bridge.
Another thing, sometimes the strings can vibrate in a weird way behind the bridge. I had to tuck some felt between the strings of an old Guild once, because the strings between the bridge and the tailpiece were making a buzz.
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Oh Chris ! Thank you so much ! Originally Posted by PTChristopher
I've been struggling with a kind of a buzz, mainly on open A string, that nearly drove me mad on my ES 125 T. Putting new strings made the buzz disappear .. but only for a while (of course)
I couldn't find anything loose, I checked the tailpiece, knobs, bridge, strings, nut, pick-up, jack-plate ...
Always buzzing !
Then I read this post suggesting to play the guitar left handed. That I did. No buzz !
So I checked again the wiring and found that a cap was nearly touching the inside of the top of the guitar (when plaid right handed, but not left handed !
Problem solved !
Thanks again
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Hi 339,
Wow, old thread.
Glad to hear the left-handed trick worked for you. It strikes most people as an odd thing to do, but I can not count how many times it has sped up the process of finding a problem.
Of course, you still have to fix the problem, but now you have some great leads toward the cause.
When stuck, just change anything to shake things up and help open the eyes/ears - not just for guitar problems. In my opinion only.
Chris
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Fixed my problem. It was was the pickguard afterall. I was pushing it down with my pinky in different spots last night and bingo or should I say voila!
Lovely guitar, really comfortable to play. Sounds great acoustically. Not as excited about the amplified sound, a bit dead for mine. Gonna try some round wounds and if that does not dot it for me I think a Gibson 57 pickup could be in order.
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Sylvain,
did you have the chance to compare the AR 403 and AR 503?
If so - where they very different.
It would be great to read your opinion!
best, chris
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Sylvain, I took my eastman to a luthier Julien Marx in Nancy.
He said the base of bridge and the soundboard didn't perfecty fit.
He fixed this by finely sanding the base of the bridge so it's now a perfect match to the soundboard.
He also added a thin layer of very thin sandpaper between the two parts to prevent the bridge from sliding.
I wouldn't know if it really helped much because my ear is not so well trained.
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Hi, are you living in Nancy??
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Yes I have . Not much difference
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Do you live in Nancy ? Originally Posted by Gibouille
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Yes, quartier des 3 maisons, I often see Sylvain carrying his guitar...
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Je pourrai passer essayer pour comparer avec le combo?
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J'ai répondu en MP
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