Wazkelly's EX-1

[Swanny]

That's looking great, Waz, you must be stoked with it now it makes sound!

[wazkelly]

That's looking great, Waz, you must be stoked with it now it makes sound!

Cheers Swanny.

Big relief once you get some sound and no buzz. Took ages to wire up as it only has master volume & master tone but I decided to use push pull pots to coil split and was at one stage thinking about series parallel switching too. Good thing I changed my mind and just went coil split for each PUP as that made it a much simpler task plus there was not a lot of room to work with in that tiny rear cavity.

The individual splits provide some really good Strat like sounds and even allows one PUP spilt with the other doubled when on middle switch position plus both split to get even funkier out of phase sounds. Thankfully it worked out as planned and given me a truly versatile sounding instrument.

Once a final set up has been done will get around to doing at least a sound clip or maybe a video.

[wazkelly]

EX-1 is now all done.

Today was spent fine tuning the action which required only half a turn tightening of the truss rod to get the fret board level. Next was intonation and had just enough travel one each saddle to get that sorted too. Plugged in again for another blast and really impressed with how this ended up.

Next was to take some super model glama shots so that I can enter this in GOTM. Took heaps of shots trying to get that perfect shot and shall post most here before deciding which ones to use for the entry.

[wazkelly]

More shots......

[wazkelly]

And finally some more shots......


Got a work conference over next couple of days then away on holiday until Anzac Day so will have plenty of time to decide which 5 to use. Happy to hear any feedback.

[Alkay]

Wow Waz that looks awesome. Such a shiny finish it's like glass.

[wazkelly]

Wow Waz that looks awesome. Such a shiny finish it's like glass.

Thanks Alkay......took many hours and a big lesson in patience.