Barnseys ES1TL

[Adam Barnes]

Ok decided i was getting to fancy with the pin stripe and couldnt get anything the right colour so thanks gav. Onto the first finish coat
Next dilemma, last night after a few beers and admireing my guitar i decided to buy a pair of dirty fingers pickups (ebay is trouble on the beers) and some lovely see through blue tone and vol knobs ($ 4.50). So now im tossing up between black hardware or all crome and white pickup frames. Mabey i should try the beer thing again while watching the first finish coat dry

[Simon Barden]

Those kit bodies are light and very resonant. Despite the centre block they still aren't anything like as solid as the Gibson's they are based on. There's a good chance that the Dirty Fingers would be too much for the guitar and that you'll get body resonance feedback at very low volumes. They really are high-output shred beasts (14k ohm DC resistance and 3 ceramic magnets - but slightly down on output compared to the originals). Of course it's relatively easy to change the pickups later and swap the DFs into something solid, but it will mean removing the wiring loom again.

As they are 4 wire, it might be a good thing to think about parallel wiring options for a slightly reduced output and cleaner tone.

[Adam Barnes]

Thanks simon , ive got a epiphone 333 with one only one of the df pickups in it and it wails like a screaming banshee. If i can get this guitar sound something like my 333 i will be stoked

[Adam Barnes]

Actually the 333 has only 1 vol control no tone control, can i skip wireing the tone controls as well and just put them in as dummys, only wireing the volume pots. Is that possible to do?

[Simon Barden]

Yes, it's easy.

It's just that I was fettling someone else's ES-1 kit with Tonerider AC4 pickups in and they were powerful enough so that I couldn't get a clean tone with it through my amp, (unlike my Les Paul with Bare Knuckle Mules). And I couldn't turn it up very loud clean because the body just did its mid frequency uncontrollable howl. My old Gibson 335 was twice the weight with much more solid ply.

[wazkelly]

Chrome humbucker mounting rings can be found at Real Parts in either arched or flat..... http://www.realparts.com.au/hardware...ed-chrome.html

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[Adam Barnes]

They look cool thanks waz

[Adam Barnes]

I'd like thank all the guys on here for your help especially the last few days with the finish coat blisters, there's rain focased every day for the next week so all i can do is a mock build and look at it. So beer making this weekend instead of guitar making.
It looks great standing back but up close the top coat is going to take some work.
Thanks heaps

[wokkaboy]

the mock looks great Adam. What style of beer are you brewing on the weekend ?

[Adam Barnes]

A pale ale with some redcara, and galaxy and moteka hops, nice summer beer