Gavs ES-2T Florentine

[gavinturner]

@Stan - thanks for the kind words, but it's not a patch on AJ's effort. I am learning though! One of these days I'll produce a build where all the stars are aligned and everything goes right . Not yet though - I'm getting there, but I'm not there yet! Still a lot of luthiery black magic yet to learn...

cheers,
Gav.

[Andyport]

Wow, that really does look superb Gav, shiny as.
I'm sure a lot of us are going to end up looking like crabs....
....one huge arm from all the polishing.
My JM will be ready for the shiny treatment in a weeks time.
You must be stoked with it so far...looking brilliant!!

Cheers
Andy

[gavinturner]

hi guys,

@Andy - yeah thanks man. It's getting there!

I finally finished the polishing today - and so on to the shielding and fitting the first of the controls - the 3-way switch. I wired it up using 4-core shielded wire from Stewmac. The installation went pretty smoothly using the aqauarium pipe method - it only took 3 tries to get it in!







cheers,
Gav.

[gavinturner]

... and here is the bugger finally seated and happy.



cheers,
Gav.

[gavinturner]

... and I didn't stop there. Once I had one piece of hardware installed I was like a man on a mission. And very soon after (well more like 3 hours later) all the hardware was installed.



Just the wiring to do now (eeek!) and I'll be done with this one.

Cheers,
Gav.

[WeirdBits]

It's looking good Gav, lets hope you never have to remove it (the switch). Is your bridge ground in place? I can't see it in the pic so I'm hoping it's just tucked out of sight, or are you grounding via the trapeze?

[gavinturner]

@Scott - thanks dude. Yeah I've soldered a wire from the bridge post to the pickup cavity shielding and from there out to the body. The wire is just inside and can't be seen in the photo.





Here's a couple of more photos of the hardware in place.

cheers,
Gav.

[lawry]

That looks better and better every time you update Gav.

[gavinturner]

@Lawry - thanks dude .

cheers,
Gav.

[adam]

Wow. Yeah, just Wow. Hey, if you're going to enter this in GOTM for March, do us a favour and enter at the end of February so you don't scare the others off.