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Topic: Look what follerd me home from the Jamboree... |
Stephen Cowell
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Round Rock, Texas, USA
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Posted 15 Mar 2018 2:40 pm |
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Dude had a question about a broken tuning key button... as soon as I saw the case I started to freak...
I've already rebuilt the ES-300-type pickup, it was loose... never loosen all the polepiece screws, they hold the assembly together, and if one of the basswood spacers falls out things get *real* loose. All good now, just waiting on Stew-Mac to bring the new (tortoise-shell) buttons... who knew that metal buttons could erode?
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Stephen Cowell
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Round Rock, Texas, USA
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Posted 15 Mar 2018 2:51 pm
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Here's what the inside of the pickup looks like...
Here's the baseplate and armature... the polepiece screws hold the armature to the bottom of the coil assy.
Here's the alnico magnets and basswood spacers... the machined surface (visible on the bottom magnet) faces the side of the armature, the basswood spacers go beneath the magnets, then the baseplate is screwed into the armature from the bottom. If you loosen the poles, the whole assembly gets loose... if you loosen it too much, one of the basswood spacers can fall out (as I found in mine) and it must be taken apart and sorted out. The magnets must have the same pole up... they should repel when brought together, not like this picture:
It's the first alnico pickup Gibson created... the one the year before (1940) was seven inches long, looks crazy on that years' ES-300, the 1941 ES-300 had this exact pickup.
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Mark Helm
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Tennessee, USA
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Posted 15 Mar 2018 8:17 pm On Craigslist
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An almost identical one was on Craigslist for $1,800 not too long ago. Nice guitar!
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Jim Sliff
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Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 17 Mar 2018 5:40 pm
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| An almost identical one was on Craigslist for $1,800 not too long ago. |
The pickup itself adds no value to the guitar - versions with conventional pickups have the same value.
I'd be surprised if one with an $1800 asking price sold for more than half. Maybe. Asking prices aren't indicative of value.
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Mark Helm
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Tennessee, USA
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Posted 17 Mar 2018 5:56 pm Really?
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I"'d be surprised if one with an $1800 asking price sold for more than half. Maybe."
Jim-- Yeah--We all know asking prices and value are the same thing. But less than $900?
Next time you see a beautiful EH150 with a really nice matching vintage case for less than $900, please let us all know!
Thanks... 
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