Eric Koegh Penrod Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Got the ZBD back from the luthier and he did a fine job of repairing the separated fret board. Apparently the headstock received a blow to the front just hard enough to break the fret board loose from the nut to the 2nd fret. after repair..... While waiting I have been accumulating parts for the make over....Bigsby B6,Bigsby rocker bridge, push pull pots for the vol and pup control,.015 pio cap for the tone, Lollar p90's for the neck and bridge,Shielded wire,Nickle Grover Deluxe tuners, Dadario Chrome flat wounds.... Before the surgery...... Stripped....... I'm using Bourne 500k push pull pots for the pickups so I will be able to cut each pup out of the circuit when I want. I am thinking but I could be wrong but I believe that when a pup is cut out of the circuit it wont be pulling any tone away from the others when not in use..... if it works "great" if not no big deal....just having fun here right? I am using the orig tone pot and and middle pickup. Stay tuned for more...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crust Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crust Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Those things have that nice flame top. No other Epiphone guitars quite like those ZBD from 10 or so years ago. The repair job looks neat, pro repair. I always, in a strange way feel like guitars have a kind of life of their own. They are sad when they are broken and can't be played . That is eventually going to be one happy guitar ...lol Can't wait to see the finished version, all strung up . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott0 Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 super nice! I'm going to stay tuned to this for sure. Also, it appears there are some hole where the floating bridge resides...where/are there pegs or something in the bridge to keep it stationary? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vomer Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Eric, I was going to ask the same thing. That's a lot of holes there. I'm going to pin my EA250 and had heard of using one pin per side, paper clip wire was suggested. What does yours have? Plus, nice project. She's going to be sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Koegh Penrod Posted January 19, 2014 Author Share Posted January 19, 2014 Actually those are not holes, just marks I made with a sharpie to locate the bridge when it goes back on. I'll rub them out when I am finished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Koegh Penrod Posted May 6, 2014 Author Share Posted May 6, 2014 Long overdue update! Im diggin it! I could not use the bigsby rocker bridge because it would not adj high enough so I used the stock base and a chrome tom on it also I could not get used to the fixed vibrato arm so I put one one with the pivot. Went thru a cpl of sets of knobs before finding these clear speed knobs... Bright tone even with the flat wounds, I may try a set of round wound though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crust Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romeo623 Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 Eric, Which Lollar pickups model are? Why didn't you replace the middle PU? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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