Process plan for the ES-1GT

[Joranaca63]

Hello Franken,

hope you are having a prosperous 2021.

Yes, 240 grit would do it, and mineral spirits to highlight any shiny spot on the body.

thank you for sharing.

[FrankenWashie]

Hello Franken,

hope you are having a prosperous 2021.

Yes, 240 grit would do it, and mineral spirits to highlight any shiny spot on the body.

thank you for sharing.

No problem at all, post up your progress as you go, everybody loves seeing progress photos! Best of luck with it.

[Joranaca63]

Hello all,

I hope this email finds you well.

I had some left over redwood stain and finish from my fence work that I used in the face of the guitar.

I did not work. the paint was bubbling. it was not what I expected.

So I got some regular cognac wood stain and it work fine, because I did not get bubbles after I applied the Polyurethane.

I still need to apply the polyurethane to face of the body.

I hope that by next week I would be done with the neck and start working on the hardware.

thank you all for the feedback and have a great day.

I hope you like the photos.

[Joranaca63]

Good morning Franken,

I hope you are doing well.

Questions for you.

What is the process of Properly Shielding the guitar? Where can I buy kit?

Thank you

[FrankenWashie]

Good morning Franken,

I hope you are doing well.

Questions for you.

What is the process of Properly Shielding the guitar? Where can I buy kit?

Thank you

I am well thanks Joranaca, hope you are too.😁

Shielding can normally be done using copper conductive tape https://www.stewmac.com/electronics/...pper-tape.html or a conductive painthttps://www.stewmac.com/electronics/...ing-paint.html, usually on solid body guitars. For the hollow body or semi hollow body kits it gets a bit tricky as it’s not feasible to shield the entire inside of the guitar.
Your kit also uses humbuckers, which shouldn’t get the same amount of interference or noise.
The key for you is going to be the wiring harness, the standard kit wiring is basic, if you want to improve it you can replace the standard hook up wire with shielded wire https://www.stewmac.com/electronics/...16-inches.html and this will help reduce any stray RF noise (from what I’m led to believe and have read, I’ve not done it myself).
making sure you have an effective ground to the bridge and across your pots will also help.

Please note: I include the StewMac links as this was the easiest place to find all of the references, it is not an endorsement of Stew Mac and their products.