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Texasbluezman

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About Texasbluezman

  • Birthday 09/16/1971

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  1. When I go out on the town, I take my Money and my Honey! I know the thread is about Les Paul's, but I couldn't resist showing my Strat, since the names rhyme. Honey Money
  2. I have a set of pickups from a LP Studio that have the quick connects. Not sure of year or which pickups they are, but I assume they are the standard Studio pickups ie. 496 and 498, or something like that.
  3. I found my old thread! I'll add the picks here also to make this thread complete! Now everyone can see the rebuild from start to finish, and maybe learn something also. I'll take your questions now.
  4. Not much. I get together with some aquaintances occasionally.

  5. Hi Tex how are you? I just got my last guitar today, a Fender deluxe tele in sunburst...just lovely. Are you playing much these days?

  6. Yeah. I hope. I put mine in here.
  7. Volume tapers are working out just the way I wanted them. I'll tell what happened, After wiring and labeling the switch, I ran the wires through the cavity. Then I realized that my longest wire was not going to the output jack. So I added an extension. The only problem with that is, the outer braid was touching the inner wire, which in turn sent everything to ground. Only took me 2 days to fix that little problem. I feel kinda embarassed, but I decided to put it out here for others to learn from. Next time someone needs help on a 50's upgrade, just send 'em my way! And THANKS for the help Willy!
  8. I had asked if anyone could tell where on the guitar to check with a multimeter, but apparently nobody knew. Anyway, I found the problem. Everything is in working order now. It was a grounding issue. I did some clean up in the cavity. Made some wires shorter, and routed them in an orderly fashion. I almost like this guitar as much as my Gibby. It has a mellow,but aggressive sound. Not a drastic change from before the mods, but noticeable. Would be hard to explain. I so happy to get it finished, that I put the covers on, and plugged it in for a 1 hour jam session with myself and Gary Moore's Still Got The Blues CD. So I will post some pics in the near future. It's not the best soldering job, but I'm getting better. Thanks to everyone for your help!
  9. I'll try to get some pics up before I ask anymore questions.
  10. I checked the output plug and even reversed the wires just for grins. I did label each wire from the switch before I fed them through the body. I am using vintage braided wire. I must admit, your control cavity looks much neater than mine. It could be possible that I may have put too much heat on something. But how could I check? Could I use a multimeter and check certain points to determine where my problem could be?
  11. I finally got around to installing my upgrade. Got everything installed in about an hour. Plugged in and nothing! After 5 hours of troubleshooting, which included taking almost everything back apart, watching youtube tutorials, and looking at several schematics, I'm at a loss. I have no idea what is wrong. I pretty much drove myself to a frenzy and am ready to either take it to somebody else or throw it out the window of my 2 story house. But lucky for me, the window won't open. It won't make a sound at all. Even if I touch things inside the cavity, nothing. Either something is broke or something is shorting out, and not letting a signal get to the output jack. I just don't know. Help! Please!
  12. No regrets! Even though I just got me a Gibby, I still play my Epi. Will be taking the Epi out tonight to an open jam, because the straplocks and new strings haven't come in yet for the Gibby.
  13. Finally joining the club, with a 2011 Traditional Pro 50's:
  14. I got a little excited about the 2012 Standards also, especially with the coil splits, phase and direct to output switching. Would like to play one before I get anything else, but not sure if I want to wait that long.

  15. I didn't buy it. I went into GC intending to buy it. It's been hanging on their wall for over a year and has a couple of noticable scratches. I played it for about 1 1/2 hours. The strings are dead and it wasn't talking to me and I got cold feet. I decided to wait and get a new 2012 Standard. I'm hoping the discounts at Fathers Day Sale will be big enough to justify it.

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