koldo2552´s ES-3 (The WorkHorse)

[koldo2552]

No, I won't forget bridge wire... it becomes a nightmare when hardware and strings are not grounded... too much noise.

I didn't cut pickup wires, what you see is what comes in the box, hope i'll have enough wire lenght for an easy installation even if it looks neat. I left a litle extra wire in every connection, maibe the pic doesn't show it properly.

Finally i used modern wiring... if somebody wants a photo of tonerider's installing booklet, i'll post it. They explain the wiring options and diferent push/pull options very well with nice diagrams. And i followed what they recommend.

[Simon Barden]

Interesting. I'll need to go and check the cable lengths on my pickups for my ES-3! If necessary, I can route the neck pickup cable on the other side of the bottom f-hole. Gravity should keep it out of sight.

[koldo2552]

Interesting. I'll need to go and check the cable lengths on my pickups for my ES-3! If necessary, I can route the neck pickup cable on the other side of the bottom f-hole. Gravity should keep it out of sight.

If you see the pictures, you'll see that neck's wire is long enough, bridge's one is shorter... and it must go around the F-hole. In a solid body guitar makes sense having a shorter bridge wire, but in this kit can be a headache if you break accidentally a litle bit of it...
I won't manipulate the harness to much until it gets installed just in case, don't wanna have a thick grey wire in the middle of the hole.

[koldo2552]

Hi!!

I,ve been working on the guitar since sealer and try oil arrived. So, here the pics:

First, the sealer. Very very sticky, fat, this is not like the stain...



A couple of Sealer&Filler coats and i sand the whole thing with steel wool.

My "working place" is not the best, so i had to be very careful with dust and dirt because as i said before, this thing is very sticky and everything goes to it. It reminds me a fat varnish, it also smells like that.

Once sanded, I begun with Tru oil


Well... That´s another story. Spreading the oil with a coat is easy and the colors and the grain become alive.
The process is quite simple, coat, coat, coat, wet sanding (1500 grit) and repeat.

[koldo2552]

As the process is so repetitive, and all the pics are quite similar i´m not going to put more of them.

Finally, after.... I don't know... About ten coats of oil and with two "in between sanding" (forgive my english), I think it´s enough, so i´ll polish the guitar and see what happens.

I´m very happy with the colors, it begins to look very nice at least for a first bid. Of course it is not going to be perfect, but it´s better than expected.

So, before polishing this is how it looks.


Cheers!!

[Simon Barden]

Looking very good there.

[WeirdBits]

Excellent. The colours look great with the oil.

[Zandit75]

That is looking awesome Koldo!!

[cade711]

Really nice. Great job so far

[Petrus_Bass]

Awesome!!!!! Acojonante!!!!!

Where did you buy the sealer and oil? and how did you apply it?
A great job, man!