Stripping all electronics and hardware.
Before:
Stripped:
Now just waiting for delivery of bits. In the meantime I would like some advice on if there is anything I can do about the lifting nitro on the headstock. Close up:
My wiring scheme:
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| Author: | GourmetSaint [ Sat May 02, 2015 9:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Renovating Black Beauty 3 |
Stripping all electronics and hardware. Before: Stripped: Now just waiting for delivery of bits. In the meantime I would like some advice on if there is anything I can do about the lifting nitro on the headstock. Close up: My wiring scheme:
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| Author: | Chris Pile [ Sat May 02, 2015 11:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Renovating Black Beauty 3 |
Ummmm.... pretty sure there's no nitro on an Eppy LP. |
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| Author: | GourmetSaint [ Sat May 02, 2015 11:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Renovating Black Beauty 3 |
Ok. What is the finish? Wbpu? |
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| Author: | B. Howard [ Sun May 03, 2015 7:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Renovating Black Beauty 3 |
The finish is a polyester. Delaminations like that are quite common over the plastic headstock veneers. You can try wicking some thin CA in under it, sometimes that gives a satisfactory repair sometimes it stays cloudy. It's about a 50/50 from my experience here. A complete refinish of the headstock face is my typical repair. |
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| Author: | GourmetSaint [ Sun May 03, 2015 7:38 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Renovating Black Beauty 3 |
Ty |
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| Author: | GourmetSaint [ Sat May 09, 2015 7:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Renovating Black Beauty 3 |
HELP!!! I need a couple of yards of 6 core 22 awg shielded cable for the run from the Freeway switch to the pots. The Belden part number is 5504FE. I can only find distributors sell 500 or 1000' spools. Can anyone in the US source this? |
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| Author: | Freeman [ Sun May 10, 2015 8:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Renovating Black Beauty 3 |
GourmetSaint wrote: HELP!!! I need a couple of yards of 6 core 22 awg shielded cable for the run from the Freeway switch to the pots. The Belden part number is 5504FE. I can only find distributors sell 500 or 1000' spools. Can anyone in the US source this? I'm retired now but let me call the electronics shop where I used to work. They have all kinds of scraps of all sorts of different multi conductor cables. |
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| Author: | dzsmith [ Sun May 10, 2015 9:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Renovating Black Beauty 3 |
You can probably wrap a wire around the bundle for the ground shield. Not many guitars are wired with shielding these days. Man, that looks like a complicated wiring scheme. Very good diagram. I'm eager to know how it works out for you. Dan |
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| Author: | GourmetSaint [ Mon May 11, 2015 7:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Renovating Black Beauty 3 |
Thanks Freeman Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk |
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| Author: | GourmetSaint [ Tue May 12, 2015 6:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Renovating Black Beauty 3 |
I found the cable by the foot in the US and ordered 10' for delivery to friends there (wouldn't ship to Oz). My friends will mail on next week. |
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| Author: | Freeman [ Tue May 12, 2015 10:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Renovating Black Beauty 3 |
GourmetSaint wrote: I found the cable by the foot in the US and ordered 10' for delivery to friends there (wouldn't ship to Oz). My friends will mail on next week. I also found a piece and was going to offer to send it to you today. If you want it PM me a snail mail address. |
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| Author: | GourmetSaint [ Sat May 30, 2015 9:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Renovating Black Beauty 3 |
Finished!! Thanks to Freemann for the 6 core shielded cable to run from Freeway switch to cavity. Neck and bridge pups are GFS Alnico II. Middle is the GFS Dream 180. All pots are 500k push-pulls in 3V/1T Series/Parallel setup. New stop piece, bridge, machine heads, pickguard bracket, and jack. Thanks for the tip re the bubble under the poly on the headstock. The CCA worked great!!   
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| Author: | Chris Pile [ Sat May 30, 2015 10:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Renovating Black Beauty 3 |
Nice. Now play it 'til your fingers bleed. |
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