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Finished Shots - Trini Lopez 335 ish Tribute
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And another fingers crossed moment has also turned out OK - that is, how to get the guitar into the ES case without having to take the whammy bar off every time :
It flippin' well fits!!!
Andyjr1515 said: impmann said: I've been quietly watching the progress of this... bloody hell, thats nice.
I can't wait to see it completed... I'll have to invite myself over to @meltedbuzzbox place on some pretence when its finished. :-) Hmmm...and a video of a Trini Lopez-esque and an Alembicesque playing together. Now that would be something you don't often see!
There is a strong likelyhood they will be recorded together...
For the positioning of the bridge, I have strung it up with a 'proper' set of electric strings and packed up the top of the roller bridge to get it to the correct action height. That way, I am able to position the optimum position and angle of the bridge, given the adjustment range of the saddles, giving plenty of further intonation adjustment for alternative string gauges or tunings.
With a 6mm bradpoint through the two bridge adjuster holes, I have then marked the centre point for the bushes drill holes (11mm...that's meant a 24hr hour Amazon jobee for an 11mm bradpoint which should arrive later today)
And while I'm waiting for the bradpoint for the bridge bushes, on to one of the other last scary bits - drilling holes in the top for the controls!
It will be fiddly enough as it is...but thank goodness for that hatch at the back!
Still got all the set up stuff to do and I need a tweak (or the OK to do it myself) from Marc at Mojo to get the phasing right for the 'both' pickups (they are braided earth, single conductor and so not as simple as swopping the wires round...it needs one of the magnets flipping). Individually, by the way, the pickups sound GREAT!!!
So we'll have to wait for a 'not having to have all the lights on in the middle of the day' break in the cloud before the arty farty shots but here's a couple of poor light shots to be going on with
Photographing this, with or without total cloud cover, is...er...challenging. Anyway, here's a few arty ones:
And a few outdoor shots:
As always!
You see what mainstream makers produce with all their tech and machinery, then you make this in a cellar with limited tools, bloody awesome!
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