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You do love it. Admit it, you just want to keep building.
No one was born knowing how to soldier. Just dig in, get help from a friend, look up wire soldering on YouTube. You just need to learn. Same...
I guess he's just a collector or is he a hoarder. Is there a difference?
Amp kit compared to the "real thing". Not sure why you would not consider it the real think. The design of a 5e3 may be the same no matter if...
Well, I have little respect for the big names and their factory junk. I'll take a parts caster over the name brand any day and I bet if Leo was...
Get out the volt meter, check the pots and replace them. I don't see any reason not to do it other then the time it wold take to replace what is...
Was there anything he didn't play? It might be interesting to know if there was any guitar he played and sounded terrible? I doubt it. I'm...
Ebony, sacrilege? I don't see it that way. Ebony is great stuff.
You are not alone. More like WHAT IS WRONG WITH US. Some of us just want simple options
A real fender branded Bigsby. I couldn't afford to buy one of those if I sold my house.
Albert Lee could make a baseball bat with 1 pickup and 6 strings sound better than anything I could do.
I think you may have hit on the real issue. It's easy to get caught up in details. What I have read about Fender was that he was looking to...
Well, that's for sure. No question it has alway been about musicians not hardware. I can build almost anything but my playing ability is...
A question about the original Tele bridge saddles. I have alway wondered about the 3 pair design on the Tele Bridge. From the first time I saw...
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Peegoo ---- The bottom image of the black single humbucker is right in line with what I'm thinking of building. Thanks for posting the images.
My goals are to us a beautiful piece of wood which I have had for a long time. The wood came from a tree I cut up my self after a storm knocked it...
Thank you all. Great information and a big help on planning. I should have mentioned, that first, this would be just for me and and resale...
I have a very nice piece of figured maple I would like to use for the top of a Tele body. I'm not really trying to make a pure Tele, just...
I don't have the amp in my position. I guess it would be from around 2007 then. At any rate I guess I need to get a meter that will check...
Good advise, thanks. We are gong to work on it together as I teach him basic electrical principles. You are right it's time to replace all the...
A friend had an old 5e3 which was not working. He can sure play but has no electrical knowledge. I found 2 bad caps and one tube was not...
Well, that makes sense, not sure why it never occurred to me. Thanks and I'll keep studying.
Looking for an answer to a technical question and found this forum while searching for information. If this is the wrong place for this question...
