"Why did you do it? Why did you do this thing to me?"

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Post by gishuk » Thu Jul 08, 2021 2:43 pm

What the shitting fuck someone did that to a 60s guitar in 2021?? :fp:

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Post by s_mcsleazy » Thu Jul 08, 2021 4:27 pm

ok, so i hate working on hollowbodies as much as anyone but you usually know if you do it right first time, nothing in there is gonna come out for a while..... who's saying "ah yes, i need regular access to the pots to my 60's hollowbody so it's just easier for me to route a hole in the back"
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Post by CROSS_guitars » Thu Jul 08, 2021 4:36 pm

Lazy bloody guitar techs with sausage fingers!

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Post by andy_tchp » Thu Jul 08, 2021 5:04 pm

MrFingers wrote:
Thu Jul 08, 2021 5:04 am
No, those are the (dreaded) dust covers that Gibson put around their potmeters in that era. Great in theory, but didn't really work. And those covers are so large that it prevents the potmeters from being fished out of the guitar via the bridge pickup cavity (or F-hole). Hence the "need" to add a cover to the back.
I do not understand. Someone got that bulky assembly of parts in the guitar 50-60 years ago. What goes in, must surely come out?

(And yes, I have removed and reinstalled entire wiring assemblies out of a semi-hollowbody previously. More patience is required! :) )
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Post by MrFingers » Thu Jul 08, 2021 10:37 pm

andy_tchp wrote:
Thu Jul 08, 2021 5:04 pm

I do not understand. Someone got that bulky assembly of parts in the guitar 50-60 years ago. What goes in, must surely come out?

(And yes, I have removed and reinstalled entire wiring assemblies out of a semi-hollowbody previously. More patience is required! :) )
Yes, nowadays that is possible, but not on those guitars of that era. The F-holes are too narrow to fit the potmeter+cover (that is soldered around it) through them, so you must go via the bridge pickup routing... Which you can't, because that is blocked off by the choke-coil that is waxed in place.

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Post by mgeek » Thu Jul 08, 2021 11:13 pm

Holy crap, my eyes. Please tell me there's an endless queue of people on the original post of this calling them a dumb see you next tuesday :fp:

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Post by Axolotl » Fri Jul 09, 2021 11:06 am

Hey at least he did tape off the area that he routed. That was no hack job.
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Post by sal paradise » Fri Jul 09, 2021 11:11 am

Why didn’t he make the cover out of the removed wood? I can understand if there was a fault & he felt there was no other way. But that awful black piece of plastic is about as ugly as anything I’ve ever seen :k
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Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Fri Jul 09, 2021 11:15 am

sal paradise wrote:
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Why didn’t he make the cover out of the removed wood? I can understand if there was a fault & he felt there was no other way. But that awful black piece of plastic is about as ugly as anything I’ve ever seen :k
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Post by MrFingers » Tue Jul 13, 2021 11:59 am

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Post by marqueemoon » Tue Jul 13, 2021 12:06 pm

Took me a minute, but wow.

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Post by will » Tue Jul 13, 2021 12:13 pm

GRRRRR!
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Post by MrFingers » Tue Jul 13, 2021 12:15 pm

To add to it... It hangs outside... bolted to a ship.

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Post by adamrobertt » Tue Jul 13, 2021 1:50 pm

marqueemoon wrote:
Tue Jul 13, 2021 12:06 pm
Took me a minute, but wow.
It really is incredible.

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Post by SignoftheDragon » Tue Jul 13, 2021 2:23 pm

MrFingers wrote:
Tue Jul 13, 2021 12:15 pm
To add to it... It hangs outside... bolted to a ship.
Probably has another one bolted in a matching location on the other side of the ship. Insane A-holes are really into symmetry, I've been told.

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