Dedmans ES-2V

[Dedman]

Thanks Simon!

[Simon Barden]

The 'Kinman' mod is just wiring the bleed capacitor and resistor in series instead of parallel. Different people have different ideas on the optimum cap and resistor value, but a 0.001uF/1pF capacitor and a 130k ohm 1/4 watt resistor seem to be the most popular.

In the diagram below, the first option is simply a capacitor, which works but can lead to the tone getting a lot brighter as the volume is reduced. The second is a capacitor and resistor in parallel, which is the Seymour Duncan/StewMac/PBG kit version, whilst the third is the capacitor and resistor in series and is often known as the 'Kinman' version.



I tried the second one on a Strat I rewired recently and that worked nicely, but the Kinman version would work better on a two-volume control guitar. Wazkelly found out with a Jazz Bass (where there is no selector switch and both pickups are permanently in circuit), that the standard treble bleed kits caused the volume drop-out when one pickup volume was turned right down (to select either just the bridge or neck pick-up), which caused me to start looking into these things.

There is a lot of stuff out there on the web about these bleed circuits, and there are quite a lot of variations on values, plus more alternative circuits, some of which seem rather OTT, in search of technical perfection.

[phrozin]

that's a nice shine there dedman theirs some work in that body smooth as a baby bum

[Dedman]

couldn't resist a partial mock up while getting ready to do some wiring

[WeirdBits]

Fingers! Very nice.

[Fretworn]

Very you, Dedman. It "looks" like the kind of music you like to listen to.

[Dedman]

Very you, Dedman. It "looks" like the kind of music you like to listen to.

No idea what you mean

[Dedman]

What a right pain in the butt getting that wiring in through those tiny f holes. glad I went with mini pots! I called them f'n holes a fair bit! Much eaiser on the full size axes. But to my surprise even after all the twisting and turning it passed the "tap" test first time round. Tuners, a clean up of the fret board to get the masking tap glue off and strings tomorrow!
I have to say that since buying a decent soldering station my wiring has improved 100%. Again thanks Doc for the advice on what to buy

[Dedman]

strung and playing hangin out with its cuz.
Will leave it for a week, another polish, restring with good strings (Chinese on atm) and will tidy the wiring now that I know it all works correctly. May sand a little bit more off the base of the bridge as well

[Simon Barden]

Looking great, Dedman.

What's it sound like? Has it got much of a semi-acoustic nature to it?