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lookin good Doug. You can always upgrade the pick up later, a single decent P90 won't break the bank. I have a brass nut to go on mine as I used one on the JR-1 I did and it has a nice spangly sound, combined with the hollow body I'm hoping for some thing similar but with more resonance.
Looks good Doug. I'd let it all settle down for a few weeks before final setup
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Thanks guys. I did a little more tuning this morning & it does sound nice, not quite in the same area as my Takamine & Ashton 12 strings but the potential is definitely there with some upgraded electrics & a bit of fretwork. I hope you blokes get yours up & running soon cause I am interested in how each of you solve any problems you encounter. On the whole this is a fine DIY guitar kit for those of us who are more acoustically inclined than the heavy metal builders.
Like the sound of a brass nut DEDMAN where did you get it? & did you glue it onto the neck?
Doug, I got it from realparts in Bris. and yup glued it. Between work and the weather I'm not getting much of a chance to get into the workshop just lately.I have ear marked Tuesday as guitar day, now it's up to the weather. :p
Hi from spain
I,m in the way to do my first DIY project with this specific model but i have some doubt about the sound of this guitar.
Could you upload a sound demo ,please.
Any recomendatios for this specific kit?
I would like the amber finished,but due to restrictions rules ,i must use wudtone one,any recomendatios?
Thanks in advance
Hi Chico, welcome to the forum. Be best if you introduced yourself in the welcome section of the forum (near the top) - instead of posting your query in someone else's build diary.
I think the ES-5V kits will sound great, especially if you upgrade the bridge, pickup, tuners and install a bone nut. If you are lucky Doug is the closest to finishing his ES-5V build so he may be able to record you a sound demo.
Dedman is building one but think he said elsewhere he doesn't have any recording equipment.
There are plenty of 2 pickup hollow body kits at Pitbull available would have more sounds available with 2 pickups versus one pickup of the ES-5V.
Wudtone have a good range of stain colour's and do an amber kit and some darker browns dark tease and columbian gold (not sure if these colours are still available but they were 2-3 years ago) or you could do a nice tobacco burst maybe.
Best of luck Chico, I think any Pitbull kit you can make play and sound well with some upgrades and a good setup
wow great job!
Looks really great!
cheers,
Gav.
Excuse me.
Thanks for you answer