Hi Wokka, the Tele is spray acrylic. Only the primer on so far, but the top coat will be a similar colour. The stickers are for this guitar, racing stripes.
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Hi Wokka, the Tele is spray acrylic. Only the primer on so far, but the top coat will be a similar colour. The stickers are for this guitar, racing stripes.
Sound file for the PBG-1 :p
https://soundcloud.com/andrew-aeschl...sample/s-Tt8qi
sounds good Andrew, so is the sound file of the PBG-1 you tapping on the pickups ? Is it assembled or you just doing the wiring ?
That is the sound of me hitting the PBG-1 body. It's the only sound I could get out of the guitar at this stage of the build.
haha ok Andrew, I wondered what the sound was, thought it was a bit early in the build to hear pickups being tapped
Waiting for coats to dry, I decided to experiment with the idea of stencilling a headstock logo with ink.
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My wife is a scrap booker, so I tried 4 of her inks, some use a dye, some a pigment, and some both. I sanded and clear neck stained a piece of pine then ran a strip of sign vinyl down the middle and placed the ink right up against the vinyl to see how much it would bleed. After everything was dry and the vinyl taken off, I used DT neck top coat over the whole top.
Conclusions? 1: The vinyl left an invisible film that the DT didn't want to stick to. 2: I'm going to use a cut vinyl logo instead of a stencil. 3: of I do decide to use ink in the future, MFT hybrid ink or Altenew crisp jet black were best and I know excactly where I can find some ;)
Hey Andrew, good test there but as you say would be much easier to cut a vinyl logo or print onto waterslide decal paper.
Id say the adhesive on the vinyl has stuck to the pine and hence the DT won't stick to it
Hi Andrew, Dingotone will definatley go over waterslide decal. I haven't tried vinyl.
I have tried putting DT over stamp pad ink and was informed (and saw) it won't work because you need an oil base. tried mixing linseed oil to the ink...still didn't work. As a fall back, I imagine that you could also handpaint the logo in acrylic or oil based paint?
Good luck, build looks good so far.
@Andy40 that is interesting with DT not going over stamp pad ink as it works fine under TO?
Most decal transfer paper kits mention that you need to seal the printed image with a clear acrylic, let that dry for 24 hours or so, and then soak in water to slide on the object which in this case is the headstock, then leave that to dry for at least 24 - 48 hours before applying top coats. Never tried DT top coats due to humidity issues and reading other posts some have resorted to using clear acrylic just on the headstock to cover and protect the transfer paper decal.
Hey Waz,
Yeah I know re stamp pad ink. If I didn;t try it myself I wouldn't have believed it.
Yeah this is my headstock decal which is a waterslide decal. Attachment 11972I did roughly 2 or 3 neck coats of DT, lightly sanded till even I think with 2000 or 1200, then applied the waterslide decal, waited 24 hours then applied another 2 or 3 neck coats of DT, then sanded flat with 2000. Its held up pretty well but you have to be careful when sanding.
hang in there Andrew, interesting to see the results of the various inks
I did discover that if using rag method just on top of the ink it dragged it all over the place whereas when brushed on the coat did not and preserved the ink finish. Only went back to rag finish once brushed on coat had plenty of time to cure. DT is that watery that it can be brushed on as I found out on scrap timber samples when blending colours on the EX-5.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy40
DT goes ok over sign vinyl. I had problems with a lack of patience and putting to much DT on, so had to sand it back a few layers. The vinyl sanded back with with DT and should sit slightly more level with the surrounding surface.
Good tip for future reference.
Ordered some Dark Stars to go on this beast.. why does the post always have to take so long?
Like these?
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Highly recommend the coil split as you get plenty of useful sounds. Great sounding PUP's for the price and hope you like them. Pity there is stuff all sound clips anywhere to be found for them to help with choosing which ones. At least Tonerider do and that helped me when choosing PUPs for my EX-1.
The Dark Stars are nice, like waz said, split them and get a heap of nice tones, I have them in my GD-1.
Exactly like those. Push-pull volume pot ordered as well. I was looking for some wiring diagrams for 2 HB's, vol, tone and switch with coil-split but will probably use the same system I have in my Pacifica where the push-pull just earths the centre tap.
http://www.guitarelectronics.com/pro...e0Tone001.html
thats the wiring diagram I used
Yeah, I saw that one. I'm going for a single split switch. I considered putting in a phase switch but sometimes there are too many things to play with on a guitar instead of just playing music. Their circuit uses north coil on the neck and south coil on the bridge, mine used north on both and switches both on/off at the same time.
If you want a hum cancelling split coil pair when in the middle position then you need the bridge slug, neck screw combo like in this diagram. It's a little more work to wire, but probably worth it in the long run. Just make sure you have the slug on the bridge, as it's furthest from the saddles.
The specific coil layouts can vary between manufacturer so I find it's useful to connect the pup coils together (using clip leads) in different combo's direct to a headphone amp in a nice EMF rich environment, like lots of fluoro lights. You soon hear the difference when you have a north/south pair.
Yeah Weirdy, I'll probably end up doing that, but have both pickups on one switch still. Lots of time to experiment while the finish dries.
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Not much has changed visually, but everyone enjoys picture updates.
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The neck has one good top coat on after having to sand back, the body has its first top coat.
Hi mate, this wiring diagram is exactly what I used in my EX-1 with 1 vol & 1 tone, 2 x 500k push/pulls, and did the screw/slug bit as described and it has so many useful sounds with no buzzing or weird out of phase stuff happening. I know it would seem easier to just use one push/pull to spilt both but reckon in the middle PUP selector switch setting you may end up with issues. Probably best to spend the extra bucks for a 2nd push/pull as you won't regret it.Quote:
Originally Posted by AndrewA
Loving that headstock.....looks great.Quote:
Originally Posted by AndrewA
Hi Waz, in that circuit diagram, the volume switch has 3 empty tags. I plan on using those instead of putting in a second switch. It's the same essential circuit without the H+S or S+H options, so there shouldn't be any issues (as long as I get polarity the right way around). My Pacifica is wired HSH with splits and when I first played it I found it was out of phase with the switch in 2nd position, but found I liked the tone (sharp, like an extra mature cheddar). Mistakes aren't always bad, sometimes they are just an adventure into something different.
No probs......had my EX-1 out of the case earlier today playing it up against the Tele I am trying to intonate and really love all the combinations as when in the middle PUP selector position you get the usually 2 humbucker together sound, then when splitting the neck and keeping bridge humbucker gives a nice out of phase sound, then did the opposite and split the bridge and dropped neck back to humbucker and it was slightly brighter, and finally split both which did not sound quite as good as the other 2 combinations which you only get from being able to individually split each PUP independent of each other. With all the dramas I am having with the Tele it really only has one sound that I cannot replicate on the Explorer, that being the really bright bridge PUP sound that is so distinctive and gives that chicken pickin country twang. Mind you split bridge PUP sounds more Strat than Tele which is still cool.
I reckon the wiring was not too hard and probably less fiddly than trying to hook them all up together on the one without making a right proper mess of things.
Your axe and your time but for a handful of bucks and maybe 15 extra minutes effort it gives you a few more really nice and useful tonal options.
Hmm, you have given me something to think about. I don't mind putting in the extra switch, but didn't think I'd need it for 2 positions I wouldn't use. Have you got any sound samples of your EX-1?
No sound samples yet as I have been too busy trying to finish off various builds.
Might be able to bang out some rough ones towards the end of the week and then try and work out how to use Soundcloud to upload them on this forum.
Thanks Waz. When the pickups get here I might try them out on my log guitar so I can play with different setups before installing them in the PBG-1.
I agree with Woz, I have that set up on the GD with the Darkstars and extra choices in tones is great.
Hey Dedman, I'm starting to lean to your way of thinking. I was going for simplicity, but I don't want to sacrifice good tones. I already have the first pull-push pot, so it looks like I need to order more stuff from realparts to justify the postage :cool:
Yeah, they seem to charge a fair whack for postage no matter how big or small the package. For instance last night I ordered a replacement Telecaster bridge and standard postage was $7.90 or for express was only $2 more for a small parcel to travel less than 15km's? I went the express as snail mail still takes 3 - 5 days even though we are in almost adjoining suburbs.
$8 postage for a $12 pot. I can understand that they need to charge that to post things here, we are hundreds of kms from anywhere important, but I still want to make it count. I have everything for these builds already, any suggestions on something I might need for a future build?
So... These just arrived and I can't seem to get this stupid grin off my face :D
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Wiring suggestions
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nice pickups Andrew, where did you order them from ? They are different to my Dark Stars in an EXA-1 build, they don't look like they are from PBG. Lots of wiring options what are you thinking just split coil both humbuckers ?
Hey Wokka, they are the Entwistle Dark Star ND-B pickups from PBG. I noticed they look slightly different from the picture on the website, but I'm buying them for the sound and don't mind the new look.
Looks like new cosmetics and packaging as the wiring instructions were on the shiny outside cardboard part on mine. The fold out paper instructions are similar to what you get in Tone Riders.
Have Thursday as RDO and will bang out and post some rough notes for you to hear the different sounds that can be achieved from coil splitting individually.
Endtwistle have been rebranding. Looks like they'll be killer pups though!
Hey Waz, get your Tele sorted first, I'll be using your setup no matter how it sounds (on your recomendation). Besides, I may need your info on intonation when the time comes to set up my Tele.