Spotty wiring :: 2005 Epiphone Dot [8.0 lbs]

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Spotty wiring :: 2005 Epiphone Dot [8.0 lbs]

One of the tone pots was not rolling off any treble so that is a sure sign of a broken lead.  I pulled the harness and found that the pot did not have a path to ground.  Also the output jack was poorly wired, so I clipped and resoldered the connection.  Once the circuit was repaired, everything was stuffed back in, tightened up and proceeded with the setup.

2002 Gibson ES-333 [8.4 lbs] :: intermittent pickup & broken tuners

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2002 Gibson ES-333 [8.4 lbs] :: intermittent pickup & broken tuners

The neck pickup was cutting in and out on this hollowbody so that usually means you have fish the electronics out through the f-hole or pickup rout to clean / repair.  To my surprise I found an access cover in the back!  This is the first Gibson hollowbody with an access panel to come across my bench. As much as I don't like the idea of them on hollows, it makes resoldering this broken neck pickup lead and cleaning the pots much, much easier.  The bass-side tuners were also previously repaired by someone supergluing the covers.  This is always a temporary fix and the time had come to replace them.  Tuning is now much more stable with a new set of tuners.

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