Swanny's ES-12G

[Swanny]

Was thinking that, Keloooe, but with the GFS pickups, Grovers and other bits and pieces I've got for this one, I have to wait till after Christmas.

My 17yo son is waiting to see what this turns out like before he buys a kit for me to build for him though...

[keloooe]

Well I'm 17 right now and 2 years ago I built a LP-1 kit, last year did the ST-1 and am nearly done with a kit that DB made up for me, so get him to do it instead hahahaha

[Swanny]

That was my secret plan... he doesn't know it yet!

[Swanny]

Though it was overcast and there was an occasional shower around today, the humidity stayed in the 60's, so fresh coats of clear went over the body.

Today Mr Aussie Post smiled on me, and I had a new set of knobs, vintage style shielded cable, some decal paper and a radius sanding block (for when I get to level the frets) arrived.

Here's the new knobs with one of the kit supplied lurking at the rear....



Since I had the cable, and the body is busy curing it's clear coat, I decided to wire up the pots, switches etc. When I come to assembly I can run the shielded cable into the pickup cavity and make the connection there. I twisted the wires of a pickup onto the setup, and I got noise through an amp when I tapped the pickup with a screwdriver.



Next up will be to put a logo on the head, so I can clear coat the neck.

[wokkaboy]

love the new control knobs Swanny. Also the wiring looks tidy. Love the cardboard wiring jig. Looks like the middle piece of a 30 can block of beer or soft drink ?
The F hole in the cardboard looks almost 1:1 scale well done hahah

[Swanny]

Now what self respecting apprentice guitar maker would buy soft drink in those quantities?

Yep, it's the first floor from a carton of cans!

I marked in the hole so I could route the wires away from it, to keep them out of sight.

[wokkaboy]

just checking Swanny glad to hear it was a block of beer !

good thinking with the make shift F hole.

Do you have a bit of wire slack between the actual body pot holes ? Don't want the wires too tight between pots

[Swanny]

Yes, there is a bit of movement there, though I guess the bridge V & T does look a bit taught. Once the body clear coat has cured a bit I can test fit them from the front to make sure there's enough length before I try fitting them.

[wokkaboy]

good move Swanny, sounds good. The distance between bridge vol and tone look much further apart on the cardboard than the real thing though

[Swanny]

I just had to go measure the gaps, there's a difference of about 15mm between the bridge pots (65mm) and the neck pots (50mm).

It probably looks better against the lower curve of the body, sort of radiating out from the centre.