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Topic: NGD: Supro |
Travis Brown
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Posted 22 Jan 2021 5:10 pm |
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I picked this up for a decent price off ebay about a month ago and just got it today!
I'm pleased it's in great shape for its age.
Anyway, I'm hoping to find an elegant solution to the wire that's soldered to the guitar. Has anyone found a good solution to this issue? I'm not thrilled with drilling a hole in the guitar but I don't see another way.
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Tom Wolverton
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Carpinteria, CA
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Posted 22 Jan 2021 10:58 pm
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I put a standard telecaster type cup jack into my Supro. A regular 1/4†female jack. It works great. But is was rather involved opening up the wood body to accommodate the tele cup electrosocket.
Note: I have gigged this guitar hard.
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David M Brown
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California, USA
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Posted 23 Jan 2021 4:15 am
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| Tom Wolverton wrote: |
| I put a standard telecaster type cup jack into my Supro. A regular 1/4†female jack. It works great. But is was rather involved opening up the wood body to accommodate the tele cup electrosocket. |
I did the same thing and although it was a good bit of wood to remove, the Tele jack worked well.
Sorry I sold the Supro! |
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Larry Carlson
From:
My Computer
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Posted 23 Jan 2021 5:41 am
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I used a Switchcraft jack on my old Electromuse.
Involved a little drilling to open up the hole and it turned out great.
Note: I wouldn't have done this if the Electromuse was
in good condition but it's a rather bedraggled little guitar but plays well.
I have a 40's Supro in excellent shape with that attached
cord/jack and I'll leave it as it is to keep it in original condition.
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Peter Jacobs
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Northern Virginia
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Bill Sinclair
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Waynesboro, PA, USA
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Posted 23 Jan 2021 8:23 am
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| Very nice. If the cloth wire is still flexible and not dry rotted, you might just leave it a put a new plug on the end. It's not a shock hazard like a cloth lamp cord. If you plan to gig with it then, yeah, you'll need to hog out some wood to fit a jack. |
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Travis Brown
From:
Florida, USA
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Posted 23 Jan 2021 9:38 am
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It has a weird setup on the wire IMO - it's an RCA jack with an ancient 1/4" adapter. I thoroughly deoxed the adpater and it seems fine now, so for the time being I'm going to leave it.
I love this guitar. It sounds much better than my recent manufacture lap steels. That old Supro pickup is kind of magic. This makes me want to build a Coodercaster.
That said, the pickup is very sensitive to pole height. After I got strings on it, I was initially worried the pickup was bad because the output on the plain strings was so low. I adjusted the polepieces up and now it sounds great. |
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Lee D Kaiser
From:
California, USA
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Posted 23 Jan 2021 11:23 am
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If it were my guitar, I'd keep the cord on to keep it stock.
However, to answer your question, I recently used one of these on a build where I did not want to remove a lot of wood.
I don't know the details of your guitar, but this might work.
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Jeff Highland
From:
New South Wales, Australia
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Posted 23 Jan 2021 1:17 pm
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| Lee D Kaiser wrote: |
If it were my guitar, I'd keep the cord on to keep it stock.
However, to answer your question, I recently used one of these on a build where I did not want to remove a lot of wood.
I don't know the details of your guitar, but this might work. |
I used one of those on my Supro
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Travis Brown
From:
Florida, USA
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Posted 23 Jan 2021 2:31 pm
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| Thanks very much, if I decide to pull the wire, that long bushing jack looks perfect. |
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Joe Cook
From:
Lake Osoyoos, WA
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Posted 23 Jan 2021 3:04 pm
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| Nice Supro, Travis! Have fun, those do have a great tone. |
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