New to me ToneSmith electric guitar...
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CabanaBoy
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Dig those side burns...
Astral Traveler
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Very cool and great looking wood! Plus, the headstock doubles as a can opener!
Great score!
Great score!
eSGEe
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Oh yeah -- this guy fits right in
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CabanaBoy
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Someone else I know said the headstock doubles as a fish gaff - lol. It is different for sure, but cool at the same time.
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CabanaBoy
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The fake bigsby arrived and it looks like a bigsby should fit fine and look pretty good on the guitar. So, now the patient wait/hunt to get a real Bigsby B5 and vibramate setup for it. The fake bigsby will be trade fodder or maybe I'll come across a cheaper guitar it'll be happy on...
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CabanaBoy
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So, the Tonesmith had a buzz/hum which led to the the ground going to the bridge which led to this:
So, via Da'Ferengi'Mule it was sent to Hackmaster who found and revealed this:
And, that led to this beefed up fix:
and finished up became this:
AND, while the Tonesmith was at Hack'man'do's villa it must of bonded with this, because it followed the Tonesmith home:
Very cool, very cool indeed...
So, via Da'Ferengi'Mule it was sent to Hackmaster who found and revealed this:
And, that led to this beefed up fix:
and finished up became this:
AND, while the Tonesmith was at Hack'man'do's villa it must of bonded with this, because it followed the Tonesmith home:
Very cool, very cool indeed...
The Tone Rooms good ol' back porch string band and social club.
I like it.
I like it.
I know I am behind the times here but congratulations on a cool looking axe.
Cheers
Cheers
eSGEe
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AMAZING WORK @Hackmaster you truly brought the beast back from the brink!
Thanks, it was a thrash, but when the results come out as shiny as glass, I'm happy.
Whoever painted part of that top with the flat brown enamel deserves castration or worse.
It was under the knobs and under the tailpiece studs too, it's hard to imagine what someone had in mind when they did this.
But here's why it really came to me...
It's a semi hollow body design, the top is 1/4 thick maple. Somewhere, someone moved the bridge. Why we'll never really know, but the intonation must have been a tad off. The intonation is spot on where the bridge is now.
But when they moved the bridge, they missed the solid wood of the center block. The treble side bridge post only had the 1/4" top to anchor to, and the bass side had missed the solid wood almost as much. This caused the top to crack and the bridge to lean.
You can see it in this pic, the bore for the bridge studs is clearly visible on the rear of the pickup cavity wall.
There was nothing to hold the studs.
My solution was a wood block inside the pickup cavity to shore up the area for the bridge studs.
It added the structure and support that was missing. Now when I redrilled the stud holes, the studs had something to grab onto.
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I also found post studs that were a good bit longer and a tad fatter than the originals.
So that took care of the structural repair, now I just had to do the cosmetic touch up.
The bridge pretty much covers the plugged stud holes, so still not sure why all the brown paint was on there, but it's gone now.
And Kevin is right, that neck is perfect, not too wide, not too thick.
He's also lucky that the body was too thin for a Floyd, or something evil may have happened...
Actually Keven wanted a Bigsby, but a B5 with a Vibramate mount would sit too far back, getting into the arm carve area.
The only way would be screw it right to the top, then you'd have the tailpiece stud holes to deal with.
Enjoy the guitar Kevin. It has character and stories to tell.
Whoever painted part of that top with the flat brown enamel deserves castration or worse.
It was under the knobs and under the tailpiece studs too, it's hard to imagine what someone had in mind when they did this.
But here's why it really came to me...
It's a semi hollow body design, the top is 1/4 thick maple. Somewhere, someone moved the bridge. Why we'll never really know, but the intonation must have been a tad off. The intonation is spot on where the bridge is now.
But when they moved the bridge, they missed the solid wood of the center block. The treble side bridge post only had the 1/4" top to anchor to, and the bass side had missed the solid wood almost as much. This caused the top to crack and the bridge to lean.
You can see it in this pic, the bore for the bridge studs is clearly visible on the rear of the pickup cavity wall.
There was nothing to hold the studs.
My solution was a wood block inside the pickup cavity to shore up the area for the bridge studs.
It added the structure and support that was missing. Now when I redrilled the stud holes, the studs had something to grab onto.
laI also found post studs that were a good bit longer and a tad fatter than the originals.
So that took care of the structural repair, now I just had to do the cosmetic touch up.
The bridge pretty much covers the plugged stud holes, so still not sure why all the brown paint was on there, but it's gone now.
And Kevin is right, that neck is perfect, not too wide, not too thick.
He's also lucky that the body was too thin for a Floyd, or something evil may have happened...
Actually Keven wanted a Bigsby, but a B5 with a Vibramate mount would sit too far back, getting into the arm carve area.
The only way would be screw it right to the top, then you'd have the tailpiece stud holes to deal with.
Enjoy the guitar Kevin. It has character and stories to tell.
Thank you kind sir.Hackmaster.......Moniker well deserved
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CabanaBoy
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Yepper, man - I'm a happy x-hippy, I mean camper...
The guy that originally made the guitar said that it now looks very close to how it was originally. He asked what finish Hack used and when I said Nitro and it just seamlessly blended in and you can't even tell it's been painted - he simply responded COOL...
I like the guitar. Adrian has his recording les paul as last out the door and I have the Hack'a'nized Tonesmith for last out the door.
Maybe one day if I get a nice real Bigsby B5 I'll see if Hack wants to install it permanently and give some sort of custom paint job that'd cover the filled holes type thing.
P.S. the Hack diatonic zither thing-a-ma-boob sounds great thru the Royal Fresh Man
The guy that originally made the guitar said that it now looks very close to how it was originally. He asked what finish Hack used and when I said Nitro and it just seamlessly blended in and you can't even tell it's been painted - he simply responded COOL...
I like the guitar. Adrian has his recording les paul as last out the door and I have the Hack'a'nized Tonesmith for last out the door.
Maybe one day if I get a nice real Bigsby B5 I'll see if Hack wants to install it permanently and give some sort of custom paint job that'd cover the filled holes type thing.
P.S. the Hack diatonic zither thing-a-ma-boob sounds great thru the Royal Fresh Man