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Good pickups
Mine is black, and a previous owner (quite possibly someone on here) has replaced the stock pickups with Bareknuckle Mississippi Queens. It plays and sounds phenomenal, but I agree about the tuner pegs - they would look better in cream/ivory. I replaced the plastic nut with bone last year (relatively easy job - I have nut files!), but I haven't yet had to go 'internal'. The day is bound to come though, as the bridge volume pot loses contact at the very top of its travel.
Where can I get the fret polishing pads and mask?
They do a little packets of the micromesh pads - one of each grade about 2” Square, which is perfect for fretwork. I’d seen it recommended for years but never tried it - I’m glad I did
Gibson do their looms for 335-types in a U shape, which it partly to stop the wiring being visible through the f-hole, and partly to aid feeding the loom into the guitar.
It should look roughly like this 335 image borrowed from t'internet:
What I did was to do the "U" the wrong way around, so the bridge vol & tone were closely linked to the switch, meaning I could rotate the switch as far as I needed. The net result was a switch angled perpendicular to where is should have been.
So yesterday it all came out again (because apparently I love rewiring semi-hollows...). The good news is, it only needed about 6 solder joints changing, then went back in very easily, suggesting that the "proper" way actually gives practical benefits. Who knew!?
The whole thing took me maybe an hour, which I'm quite proud of. No pictures as I forgot, but imagine a little bit of swearing and then having a beer after a job done remarkably quicker than expected.
And hopefully I won't have to do it again for another 10 years this time...