Es-1g

Nice Classy build Andrew. Classic Gibbo beauty.

I have been resisting the urge to build one of these, but seeing yours makes resistance that little bit harder.

rob

Looks absolutely amazing Andrew. You take all the time you need to get it perfect ;) ;) .

cheers,
Gav.

Gav - Cheers. Checked it out this morning and ready for final wetsand on back this weekend.

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Robin - go for gold. This is a great guitar kit.

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And back to the ES-1G. This guitar has been fantastic to play, but I was never quite happy with the headstock. So, off with the tuners! I reshaped the top with some small files, then sanded back the face to remove the old logo. I will then re-dye with black FW (the colortone I used wasn't quite dark enough) and use same logo style as on my LP-Jnr which (in my opinion) is a more discreet design. Whilst I'm at it I will also pick up a set of Gotoh SG301-04 tuning keys to replace the stock ones.

Then I will chuck in a pair of Tonerider humbuckers for good measure. I wired in the original pups to enable an easy upgrade.

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Nice one Andrew :)

Small update.

Headstock reshaped, re stained & finished with satin poly finish. I've wacked in the Tonerider pups and reinstalled machine heads so I could do some work on the nut. All set up for 10's which being a bit heavier guage gives a nice tone. Sounds like a real blues rock beast now. This will all come off again when decal applied & new tuners turn up. I'll finish over the decal with some aerosol nitro.

This is still my #1 favourite kit and still prefer to play this instrument over my 'branded' ones.. it just feels nice.

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good work Ponch where you been hiding ? Nice upgrades. Are they Tonerider Rocksongs ? should have a great sound. Headstock looks sweet and new tuners this will be a great beast to play.
Did you coil split the humbuckers ? I could imagine that would be a tough job getting the larger push/pull pots in place !

Yep Rocksongs. No coil splitting, standard pots were hard enough to deal with! So where have I been hiding? Primarily in my workshop.. have a backlog of projects I'm revisiting for nut upgrades etc, nearly cleared the deck then back onto my TL-1 Esquire!

good one Ponch, I want to revisit some old builds and do some upgrades and improvements but would probably keep me busy for 12 months