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Author:  GourmetSaint [ Sat May 02, 2015 9:35 pm ]
Post subject:  Renovating Black Beauty 3

Stripping all electronics and hardware.

Before:

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Stripped:
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Now just waiting for delivery of bits. In the meantime I would like some advice on if there is anything I can do about the lifting nitro on the headstock. Close up:
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My wiring scheme:
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Author:  Chris Pile [ Sat May 02, 2015 11:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Renovating Black Beauty 3

Ummmm.... pretty sure there's no nitro on an Eppy LP.

Author:  GourmetSaint [ Sat May 02, 2015 11:25 pm ]
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Ok. What is the finish? Wbpu?

Author:  B. Howard [ Sun May 03, 2015 7:28 am ]
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The finish is a polyester. Delaminations like that are quite common over the plastic headstock veneers. You can try wicking some thin CA in under it, sometimes that gives a satisfactory repair sometimes it stays cloudy. It's about a 50/50 from my experience here. A complete refinish of the headstock face is my typical repair.

Author:  GourmetSaint [ Sun May 03, 2015 7:38 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Renovating Black Beauty 3

Ty

Author:  GourmetSaint [ Sat May 09, 2015 7:54 pm ]
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HELP!!! I need a couple of yards of 6 core 22 awg shielded cable for the run from the Freeway switch to the pots. The Belden part number is 5504FE. I can only find distributors sell 500 or 1000' spools. Can anyone in the US source this?

Author:  Freeman [ Sun May 10, 2015 8:28 pm ]
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GourmetSaint wrote:
HELP!!! I need a couple of yards of 6 core 22 awg shielded cable for the run from the Freeway switch to the pots. The Belden part number is 5504FE. I can only find distributors sell 500 or 1000' spools. Can anyone in the US source this?


I'm retired now but let me call the electronics shop where I used to work. They have all kinds of scraps of all sorts of different multi conductor cables.

Author:  dzsmith [ Sun May 10, 2015 9:12 pm ]
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You can probably wrap a wire around the bundle for the ground shield.
Not many guitars are wired with shielding these days.
Man, that looks like a complicated wiring scheme.
Very good diagram.
I'm eager to know how it works out for you.
Dan

Author:  GourmetSaint [ Mon May 11, 2015 7:19 am ]
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Thanks Freeman

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Author:  GourmetSaint [ Tue May 12, 2015 6:52 am ]
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I found the cable by the foot in the US and ordered 10' for delivery to friends there (wouldn't ship to Oz). My friends will mail on next week.

Author:  Freeman [ Tue May 12, 2015 10:18 am ]
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GourmetSaint wrote:
I found the cable by the foot in the US and ordered 10' for delivery to friends there (wouldn't ship to Oz). My friends will mail on next week.


I also found a piece and was going to offer to send it to you today. If you want it PM me a snail mail address.

Author:  GourmetSaint [ Sat May 30, 2015 9:42 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Renovating Black Beauty 3

Finished!! Thanks to Freemann for the 6 core shielded cable to run from Freeway switch to cavity. Neck and bridge pups are GFS Alnico II. Middle is the GFS Dream 180. All pots are 500k push-pulls in 3V/1T Series/Parallel setup. New stop piece, bridge, machine heads, pickguard bracket, and jack.

Thanks for the tip re the bubble under the poly on the headstock. The CCA worked great!!

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Author:  Chris Pile [ Sat May 30, 2015 10:55 pm ]
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Nice. Now play it 'til your fingers bleed.

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