Thanks Buddy, almost a smaller replica of your EX-5 in these shots. In natural daylight it is more of a caramel colour like the gooey bit in the middle of a mars bar but just a slight bit lighter.Originally Posted by GeneralKaos
Thanks Buddy, almost a smaller replica of your EX-5 in these shots. In natural daylight it is more of a caramel colour like the gooey bit in the middle of a mars bar but just a slight bit lighter.
I've always been partial to the explorer shape...had a few 4 bangers, but now have to make em myself,
no one has these sexy fivers!
Dead right there.
One of the most well balanced shapes I have ever played. Really comfortable to play either sitting or standing up. Just gotta remember the wings are a bit longer than most and easy to ding & damage and the EX-5 is probably the longest axe I have ever played, even longer than a 4 in line J Bass.
Lovely work Waz, I hope mine turns out somewhere near this standard!
Cheers Frankie, yours looks like it will turn out good. It just takes time and lots of patience before the finish starts to come together. Lost count of how many times I stuffed up on this one and had to sand back plenty before being happy with it.
Yeah, I'm rubbing back some rough spots now, the DT has been really nice to work with, though I've yet to try the finish coat.
That's looking great, Waz, you must be stoked with it now it makes sound!
1st build - Blue ES-12G ->-Build Diary-<-
2nd build - Father/Son collaboration MB-1 ->-Build Diary-<-
3rd build - GR-SF1 ->-Build Diary-<-
4th build - FS-1 ->-Build Diary-<-
Cheers Swanny.
Big relief once you get some sound and no buzz. Took ages to wire up as it only has master volume & master tone but I decided to use push pull pots to coil split and was at one stage thinking about series parallel switching too. Good thing I changed my mind and just went coil split for each PUP as that made it a much simpler task plus there was not a lot of room to work with in that tiny rear cavity.
The individual splits provide some really good Strat like sounds and even allows one PUP spilt with the other doubled when on middle switch position plus both split to get even funkier out of phase sounds. Thankfully it worked out as planned and given me a truly versatile sounding instrument.
Once a final set up has been done will get around to doing at least a sound clip or maybe a video.
EX-1 is now all done.
Today was spent fine tuning the action which required only half a turn tightening of the truss rod to get the fret board level. Next was intonation and had just enough travel one each saddle to get that sorted too. Plugged in again for another blast and really impressed with how this ended up.
Next was to take some super model glama shots so that I can enter this in GOTM. Took heaps of shots trying to get that perfect shot and shall post most here before deciding which ones to use for the entry.
More shots......
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