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dezb1
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Got this yesterday £31 every bit of ply is a tone wood (only joking) the one working pickup (the neck) does sound decent enough as long as you don't touch the pots cause they crackle like bacon in a frying pan. Neck feels nice and the body is in pretty good nick. Going to do an 'old black' on the cheap... Stick the X-trem on and order a GFS firebird pickup to replace the knackered bridge pickup and a mean/dream 90 for the neck.
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| I want one of those Hondos with the bolt on neck and tummy cut. I saw one at Guitar Center I really liked, but the neck was warped/twisted. |
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That's a sweet Hondo! And a sweet deal as well!
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dezb1
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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Been playing it a fair bit tonight (with a set of strings i got free with a magazine) not a bad guitar. bridge pickup is totally dead, have ordered the new pickups pots and switch. Don't get why these are slated so much for having a plywood body (good green credentials) sounds good and is quite resonant, feels a bit like danelectro have build a Les Paul... Looking forward to the new pickups and getting the X-trem on it.
Ps: sounds fuck all like a real Les Paul...
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Looks like a good project
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dezb1
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Continued... I think this must be why they get a bad press. I used to own a CSL Les Paul and it did a far more convincing take on the Les Paul sound, still had a bolt on neck but was solid wood and had better pickups, but if you accept the fact that a cheap plywood guitar isn't going to sound like an expensive lump of mahogany but has a pretty good sound of it's own quite jagged/spikey they're not bad at all. I mean a danelectro U2 is vaguely LP / telecaster shaped but isn't going to sound like either... Oh and it stays in tune something that can't be said of every guitar I've bought.
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dezb1
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| Mike wrote: |
I had one of these and loved it
DEM HONDO II's
The LES MIKE they called it. I don't think mine was plywood though, it was heavy as shit. |
pretty sure this is ply checked the control cavity kind of hard to tell through the finish,or maybe it's just the grain in the wood? I shall inspect more closely when I'm replacing the electronics. It is Les Paul heavy though.
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dezb1
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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Having snooped around teh internet, it would seem these were made by samick (or Tokai according to this site: http://www.music-trade.co.jp/otherhistory2.html)
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dezb1
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 1:07 am Post subject: |
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Definitely ply...
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| Mike wrote: |
I had one of these and loved it
DEM HONDO II's
The LES MIKE they called it. I don't think mine was plywood though, it was heavy as shit. |
glue is heavier than mahogany
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dezb1
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IGNORANCE ALERT... What do the caps do, and do all pots need them? As I haven't ordered any.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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| dezb1 wrote: |
| IGNORANCE ALERT... What do the caps do, and do all pots need them? As I haven't ordered any. |
im also ignorant for the most part but i think u need capacitor if u want a tone controlllll
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.diyguitarmods.com/guitar-capacitors.php
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On lesters, they're usually wired across the pots rather than from the lug to the back of the tone pot.
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dezb1
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| Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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finally got round to sorting this out, full rewire new pickups and a new nut.
Full cost including parts £53
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Thomas
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| Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Looks tidy. How was it to set up? |
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dezb1
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| Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Thomas wrote: |
| Looks tidy. How was it to set up? |
Set up with a set of 10s and was no problem after I got the nut sorted. Got a neck like a baseball bat, sounds pretty good definitely more than £53 good.
Old nut:
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Thomas
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| Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 9:00 am Post subject: |
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Nice. It's like one of those before and agter pics for dental caps:
I'd still love to get a Les Paul. One day... |
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