Some of you know that I've been horse trading with eESGe lately.
Well not a horse exactly, but some livestock was discussed.
Anyway I ended up with a Chibson, Appetite For Destruction Les Paul husk.
It's passed thru a couple of different hands around here before making its way to me.
Lets see what we can do with this little thing. This is what I have to work with.
The Chinese writing in the pickup cavities is a hoot. First thing the wife saw. Can't fool her.
My first impression is that it's lacking something. Just looks too plain. Hmmmmm, what could it be?
That was it... It needed another pickup so the other ones wouldn't be lonely.
The body appears to be a 3 piece pancake body of some mahogany like species, routed for the pickups on one piece, and the control cavities on another piece with a slab in the middle. The top is a veneer, but it shows the maple grain in both directions. Seems to have some depth to it.
So while I was waiting on parts, I went nuts and shielded this thing to within an inch of it's
Chinese life.
All the shielding has continuity all the way thru. From the switch cavity to the pickup routes to the control
cavity, it's all connected.
I also picked up these nifty little adapter bridge posts that have the metric 8mm thread on the bottom
and a smooth 4mm post on top to fit a Gibson ABR1 bridge with small posts.
They work flawlessly.
So I fitted a trio of cream pickup rings, using an extra bridge pickup ring for the middle and removed enough material to fit it into place level with the other two. Sorry for the crappy pic.
Bored the pot holes to 3/8" and installed 500k CTS pots and a set of gold ice cube knobs.
I also made up a shielded harness for the 3 way switch and wired it in.
Sunk the bridge & tailpiece anchors
Some may find the headstock questionable and even offensive due to the unauthorized branding of a trade
name.
But it will never be sold as what it's not. That plastic nut has got to go.
Waiting on some pickups and this thing should be a rockin'...
Well not a horse exactly, but some livestock was discussed.
Anyway I ended up with a Chibson, Appetite For Destruction Les Paul husk.
It's passed thru a couple of different hands around here before making its way to me.
Lets see what we can do with this little thing. This is what I have to work with.
The Chinese writing in the pickup cavities is a hoot. First thing the wife saw. Can't fool her.
My first impression is that it's lacking something. Just looks too plain. Hmmmmm, what could it be?
That was it... It needed another pickup so the other ones wouldn't be lonely.
The body appears to be a 3 piece pancake body of some mahogany like species, routed for the pickups on one piece, and the control cavities on another piece with a slab in the middle. The top is a veneer, but it shows the maple grain in both directions. Seems to have some depth to it.
So while I was waiting on parts, I went nuts and shielded this thing to within an inch of it's
Chinese life.
All the shielding has continuity all the way thru. From the switch cavity to the pickup routes to the control
cavity, it's all connected.
I also picked up these nifty little adapter bridge posts that have the metric 8mm thread on the bottom
and a smooth 4mm post on top to fit a Gibson ABR1 bridge with small posts.
They work flawlessly.
So I fitted a trio of cream pickup rings, using an extra bridge pickup ring for the middle and removed enough material to fit it into place level with the other two. Sorry for the crappy pic.
Bored the pot holes to 3/8" and installed 500k CTS pots and a set of gold ice cube knobs.
I also made up a shielded harness for the 3 way switch and wired it in.
Sunk the bridge & tailpiece anchors
Some may find the headstock questionable and even offensive due to the unauthorized branding of a trade
name.
But it will never be sold as what it's not. That plastic nut has got to go.
Waiting on some pickups and this thing should be a rockin'...
