AES-1 Special

[Trevor Davies]

Don't use the soldering iron as a slide during the solo either!

[DarkMark]

Don't use the soldering iron as a slide during the solo either!

Hot licks.

[Simon Barden]

I'd wrap some insulating tape around the braid at the jack socket end. You don't want it touching the tip connection by accident. The rest of that length should be OK.

As you are going for minimum hum pickup, I would have minimised the exposed length of pickup output wire connected to the volume pot to the bare minimum. Unless you are running short of overall pickup wire length, I'd cut it down and resolder. The length of the ground wire doesn't matter here, just the hot wire.

[dozymuppet]

This is how I find out Coles in Freo is closed...

True story: That was a reliable source of toilet paper when (ahem) shit was going down last year.

[DarkMark]

Coming together. Insulation tape wrapped at the output jack shielding wire. Didn’t take your good advice on knob placement Simon, but happy to say, absolutely no hum. Bridge needs to come down a bit, neck feels a little chunkier than I’m used to but let’s see how it feels when the strings are lower. Good string clearance at the headstock. Not in love with the gold on the pickup but like a happy arranged marriage I’m sure I’ll learn to love it. Volume needs to turned a long way up. Tone turns all the way to the the bass end without getting muddy, sounds great! Pickup reads at 7.9K on my multimeter.

[Bakersdozen]

Yay no hum! I bet your glad you got that sorted. What an awesome looking instrument there mate.

[DarkMark]

Yay no hum! I bet your glad you got that sorted. What an awesome looking instrument there mate.

Thanks mate. Had fun with this returned unwanted kit. I look forward to getting it set up properly.

[Simon Barden]

The knobs look fine just as they are. Looks great!

That gold metal band round the P90 is keeping a lot of hum out of the single coil, even if it doesn't look quite right.

I suppose you could try and go more gold with a gold pickup ring, so it's not just a single thin line of gold looking from the top.

[Simon Barden]

And if you name your guitars, this one could be Humphrey.

[DarkMark]

And if you name your guitars, this one could be Humphrey.

Nice one 👏🏻.