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I have a pickup selector grommet/bushing. If you're interested, send me a message.
-Travis
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10-06-2021 06:49 PM
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I'm with sgosnell on this one- try it as is for a while. If I didn't like it, I'd think about a blend pot ln the cutaway, no switch, master volume-tone-tone for the others (although the switch hole is probably bigger than the pot holes).
Howzit play and howzit sound? Those are the important questions!
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Originally Posted by Sam Sherry
Maybe not the best phraseology to start a thread!
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Originally Posted by Cunamara
I taped 4 knobs on this morning and it looked Like It Sposed To.
Originally Posted by Cunamara
I'll probably try out an old 12 nickel round-wound set and higher string height before popping the box on TI flats.
With the old flats, the 57 Classic on the neck through my home-built 12" 6L6 Princeton Reverb sounds gi-gan-tic !! Massive note presence, great separation, superior sustain and feedback resistance. It's easy to picture that as a stage guitar -- big sound, big look.
The generic GFS SuperD bridge pickup may be hooked-up as internally out of phase. 14k DCR but a thin sound. I'll check it out in detail when I move things around.
Originally Posted by Marty Grass
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You got a Unicorn, so let it be a Unicorn.
I'd let it stand as is.
At the very least, I wouldn't drill any new holes in it !!!!
It's had enough surgeries already.
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could have been worse.....
much worse
much much worse.....
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I have a weak spot for guitars like this! (No, not the one Wintermoon posted... that one's too far gone.... made me cry....)
I love a good vintage guitar that has been devaluated (money-wise) by some mods or a refin, thus rescued from the claws of the collectors and made available for the players!
Enjoy!
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One thing that's odd is, it looks like a JS tailpiece, but with an L5 badge. Also, maybe it's just the picture angle distortion, but the f-holes look more like an L5 than a JS. Wider. No?
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Originally Posted by Marty Grass
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I get used to what ever guitar I play. Some are easier to get used to, other take a bit of time. I always think about crazy mods. When I end up doing those, I tend to find them not as useful as I thought I would. I would live with the guitar as is, and see if it really needs to be changed.
The one important thing that I can say is, when the PU selector is on the upper horn, it flares up my CTS. What happens is that I end up using the PU selector less. Instead I might ride a volume knob or use a pedal.
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Originally Posted by Woody Sound
Keith
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Altering a guitar may upset the collector (hoarder?), but a player sometimes can get the guitar he/she needs cheaper by altering an existing guitar, rather than having one custom built. And having the right tool for the job, which is creating great music is way more important than preserving intact guitars for the bragging rights of well heeled collectors.
Check out Jack Wilkins playing an L-7 that has a humbucker installed into it's carved top. It works just fine for me....
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I bought a very similar beast.......a 1957 gibson l7 with dual hums installed long ago.
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Originally Posted by Stringswinger
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I almost never use a bridge pickup, so the only thing I want from the switch is the inability to move it by accident.
I use master volume and tone. So, I don't need 3 knobs. If I was feeling antsy, I'd pick two and bypass the other one by unsoldering the wires from the pot and soldering them together.
Alternatively, master volume and separate tone controls. I'd still probably never use the bridge pickup, but I'd be tempted to see if rolling off the bridge pu treble and blending the two pickups might produce a useful result.
But, my major move would be to change out the knobs. Put two regular size black ones by the bridge and one bigger black one on the horn. I don't like the way those gold ones look. I'd go with black cylinders rather than gold tapered.
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If it were mine, I would go a ebony bridge and either:
A. Master Volume with treble bleed at the horn, 2 ea volume, 1 master tone. ( a bit Gretschy)
B. Toggle at the horn, 2 ea volume, 1 master tone
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Thank you all again. I am a very lucky gearhead!
Here's where this has wound up, with V V T T.
Still to come:
> Install the lovely grommet so very graciously provided by @Socraticaster
> Source a treble-side Kluson SealFast. First tuner I've ever had strip out; yuck!
> Try out the NOS 60s Brazilian RW Epi Howard Roberts bridge-top, sold on EBay by someone who did not recognize BRW. @HotPepper, it's not original-spec ebony but I'm still eager to check it out.
> Make a spruce circle to fill the extra hole. My daughter, a badass nail tech, can match the color.
> Play it daily until it falls apart.
It is what it is; it ain't what it ain't. But it sounds like it looks, and it feels like it always did, and that's a winning combination!
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Originally Posted by Sam Sherry
Keith
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Originally Posted by floatingpickup
Another way to look at the fingerboard
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