Eko 500 / 4V (DONE!!!!)

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Re: Eko 500 / 4V

Post by Fiddy » Sun Oct 08, 2017 10:08 am

Eko fevergoing on @ OSG.. :w00t:

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Re: Eko 500 / 4V

Post by raphaël » Tue Oct 17, 2017 9:01 am

THE KNOBS ARE HERE!!!!!

Thank you soooOOOOooOOOooo much jeff m.
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Re: Eko 500 / 4V

Post by jeff m. » Sun Oct 22, 2017 7:44 pm

My pleasure, Raphael..glad they made it, mate !

A couple of well-travelled pieces of plastic, those :)..from a '60s Italian EKO 500/V guitar that made its way to Australia ( via who knows where ?) to being sent over to France to go back on another '60s EKO 500/V !!

Hope the restoration goes well..any luck sourcing other hardware yet ? Please post any updates as you go along, will be fun to follow..very cool guitars, these :) !

Best,
Jeff.

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Re: Eko 500 / 4V

Post by sporeleki » Mon Oct 30, 2017 11:43 am

Wow, if you could post a shot of the switch section when you work on that, it would be great.

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Re: Eko 500 / 4V

Post by nihilandvoid » Sat Nov 11, 2017 1:37 pm

:fro:
definitely following this one! such awesome guitars. Cant wait to see how this turns out!
Curious about the resistors under the pickups?

i had a similar experience recently with some vintage synths, i went to meet this cute girl and her Mother who were selling a vintage Roland Cube amp and they had some other stuff lying around like an old Jands (aussie) mixer. They used to belong to the Dad (who sadly passed away), and they said they had some more stuff of his in the garage they had to go through. Went through and had a look and he had 2 Ensoniq ESQ-1's (one in its original box), an Ensoniq VFX-SD with manual in its OHSC, a Roland RS202 mint! and heaps of cool rack gear too... i was like a kid in a candy store going through all the cool gear he used. Now i'm helping them test and repair most of them to sell.

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Re: Eko 500 / 4V (DONE!!!!)

Post by raphaël » Sun Feb 17, 2019 2:20 am

Hey,

I finally had some time to work on it.
So now it's done !!

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(Sorry for the shitty picture, I erased the good ones instead...)

Nothing extraordinary here : everything was working. Just had to do some wiring, put some WD40 and to buy / put a new input jack.
For the missing fret, I had an old Yamaha acoustic neck around, I just took its frets off and used one on the Eko neck. It worked perfectly.

So now it is done I told my friend she could take it back to home. But then she said : "oh no, keep it for a while, you know, at home the guitar will just be put on a wall, as a rock'n'roll decoration and memory from the past".
...
It is a shame. I mean, I totally / completly / absolutly get it and understand why, in her shoes I'd do the same. But still. It's a bit of a shame, for me, as a freakin' geektarist.
Anyway, I can keep it for a while, and I will 8) !!!
With pleasure.
Because, as much as I hate playing that guitar because its big fat baseball neck, the sounds, all of them, are GLOooooRRRRRiiiiiiiiiiiOOooooOOOUUUUUUSsss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I need one to be mine now :fp: :D

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