Dedmans ES-2V

[Dedman]

Interesting Weirdy, my ES came with a LP style tail piece, I had to fill the holes.

Looking at the RC-1 one day as well Waz, maybe with gold foils for something different. But after the Jazzmaster , its going to be a P bass I think.

[euroa guitars]

Argh! How did I miss this one. Cool build Dedman would love to know what you think of the pickups once finished. How goes on the job front? I wound up a gardening business last year that I had for over 10 years due to health issues, I know its not an easy time doing it. Then finding a job after being self employed can be interesting

[andrewdosborne]

As always, awesome work Dedman!

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[wazkelly]

Waz, here's a quick comparison of an LP-1SS and ES-2V I did ages ago.

Thanks Scott. That is exactly what I was after.

How did it end up? Version #2 looked the better option without the pick guard.

[wazkelly]

Interesting Weirdy, my ES came with a LP style tail piece, I had to fill the holes.

Looking at the RC-1 one day as well Waz, maybe with gold foils for something different. But after the Jazzmaster , its going to be a P bass I think.

Yeah, spoilt for choices as to what to build next.

[Andy40]

Getting close to doing clear coats. I admit the binding around the F holes has been a right bugger to mask or scrape as its so thin.

Sorry its taken me so long to catch up with this build, just been really busy lately.
It looks really cool man.

Yeah I cut out some foam and stuffed it into the F holes while spraying so it covered the binding. worked out fine.

Good job so far Deddy.

[Dedman]

First polish today for this and the V. Might wire this one over easter.

I got a couple of the Treble bleed thingy's but no instructions, where abouts do they go? I doing standard LP wiring, no splits or anything.

[Simon Barden]

A treble bleed kit simply goes between the input and output lugs of a volume pot (no connection to a ground at all).

You need to be aware that in the 'both pups on' position, even if you have the volume pots wired in the 'vintage Gibson' manner - which normally allows you to have one volume pot turned right down and you still hear the other pickup (the 'modern Gibson' way gives no output at all in this position) - that you'll get no output as the signal is connected via the treble bypass capacitor to ground.

If you only ever knock the volume pots back a bit, then it's not an issue, but once you get below say 5/10, then the volume will start to roll off a lot quicker. The standard bleed kits are great for single volume guitars, but not great for two volume pot arrangements in the both pups on configuration.

For a twin volume guitar, I'd use the 'Kinman' configuration, which has the capacitor and resistor in series, rather than in parallel like the kit. This still gives a treble bleed (supposedly smoother as well as you turn down with the treble being less accented at low volumes), but because the resistor is in series with the capacitor, you'll still get some volume from a full-on pickup with the other one turned right down and a less obvious effect on the way the volume control of the 'working' pickup attenuates when used.

The standard bleed kits work as designed on the bridge or neck pickup only settings - it's only when the selector switch is in the middle that the effect occurs. And if you only knock one volume control back a bit, say to 8/10, with the other at 10/10 then you'll be OK. But if you normally wire in the 'modern Gibson' way, then you know that you already get no output with one volume pot turned down in the mix position, but the treble bleed circuit will exacerbate this effect slightly.

The 'vintage' wiring way is supposed to keep most of the treble content anyway at low volumes, so it may be preferable to use this this method than use the treble bleed kits.

[Simon Barden]

But the guitar is looking pretty good!

[Dedman]

Thanks Simon!