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Sgmaniac
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At the request of Vic, Ess and some others, I submit the following for your viewing pleasure:
Well, I found myself with some spare parts and needed a guitar to put them in, so I bought an Ibanez Artcore hollow body jazz guitar. This is my first true hollow body guitar and it's very well made. I was very impressed with this guitar in it's stock configuration, but you know me, "If it ain't broke, break it". This guitar is way to good for it's $300 price tag, but the electronics were of course not very high quality, but better than most budget guitars I've modified. The parts going in consisted of:
- 500K Dimarzio pots
- 0.022 uf tone caps
- 0.001 uf & 150K resistors on the volume pots for treble bleed (retains highs when turning down)
- Switch Craft 3-way switch
- Seymour Duncan Seth Lover Signature Series humbuckers
Now for the pics!
In the beginning:
Stripped down:
Old Parts:
New parts:
Parts layed out for soldering:
Harness complete:
Enlarging holes to fit new (larger) pots:
Strings to pull parts into place:
I attached the washers with a dab of contact cement to keep them from falling off during installation:
I made a special tool from a phone jack to pull the input jack into place:
Stings did the trick and everything is secured in place:
Finished product with the pick guard off (what do you think? On or off?)
The result? Warm, creamy, sweet, Gibson like tone. This guitar now sounds and plays wonderfully and responds well to my finger style playing. The clean tones are awesome and it flat rocks out when cranked up, with very controllable feedback (Got Nuge anyone?). The result is a vast improvement in tone and I had a blast doing it!!! :) :coolsmiley:
Well, I found myself with some spare parts and needed a guitar to put them in, so I bought an Ibanez Artcore hollow body jazz guitar. This is my first true hollow body guitar and it's very well made. I was very impressed with this guitar in it's stock configuration, but you know me, "If it ain't broke, break it". This guitar is way to good for it's $300 price tag, but the electronics were of course not very high quality, but better than most budget guitars I've modified. The parts going in consisted of:
- 500K Dimarzio pots
- 0.022 uf tone caps
- 0.001 uf & 150K resistors on the volume pots for treble bleed (retains highs when turning down)
- Switch Craft 3-way switch
- Seymour Duncan Seth Lover Signature Series humbuckers
Now for the pics!
In the beginning:
Stripped down:
Old Parts:
New parts:
Parts layed out for soldering:
Harness complete:
Enlarging holes to fit new (larger) pots:
Strings to pull parts into place:
I attached the washers with a dab of contact cement to keep them from falling off during installation:
I made a special tool from a phone jack to pull the input jack into place:
Stings did the trick and everything is secured in place:
Finished product with the pick guard off (what do you think? On or off?)
The result? Warm, creamy, sweet, Gibson like tone. This guitar now sounds and plays wonderfully and responds well to my finger style playing. The clean tones are awesome and it flat rocks out when cranked up, with very controllable feedback (Got Nuge anyone?). The result is a vast improvement in tone and I had a blast doing it!!! :) :coolsmiley:
