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Good CTS or Bourns 500k pots, Sprague OD caps or better/ more expensive ones (yes ICBM the expensive ones sound the same....), Switchcraft switch and jack and use good quality braid throughout. 50s wiring or modern up to you, depends if you like keeping more treble when turning volume down. Use leaded solder as well as ROHS stuff worse than blu-tak.
I'm making some ES looms later this week, they are a little more complex than a Les Paul harness but fun to do. Best of luck with your one.
Cheers
Hugh
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Added-silver lead-free - which you can buy in Maplins if you need to - is fine, if a bit more expensive. It's just the cheap lead-free - which is little more than plain tin, really - which is crap.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
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@rlw if I can help just holler but honestly wasn't trying a hustle. There are fun to do and if you want to give it a go yourself go for it. I'll help with any advice I have as I'm sure other tech types here will as well.
Cheers
Hugh
P.s useless info but cap tested a LOAD of old 50s and 60s caps today. Amazingly zero drift on 95% of them. The ones not in range were very very close. Tried some ODs and whilst still close, nowhere near as tight on the value they were representing. Doesn't make them bad, just learned something myself doing that.
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Cheers
Hugh
www.proudhoney.com
Sent a PM earlier @rlw
Cheers
Hugh
www.proudhoney.com
im too late
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Think you got a pre-Shugzloomz (RIP) one as well...it'll be worth a cool 24p if you keep it a few more years
Cheers
Hugh
www.proudhoney.com
Cheers
Hugh
www.proudhoney.com
I'm not a great solderer/DIYer anyway, and it took me something like 12 hours of stress, sweat and failed attempts. I vowed to only ever pay someone else to do it if I needed to rewire a semi again!
That said, the results were fantastic - Tonepros bridge and 57 classics and CTS posts and switch - sounded *amazing*
(but never, ever again)
I've never rewired a guitar before and haven't soldered anything except my hot water tank for about thirty years but I have a fancy new soldering iron and 64 years of learning patience to fall back on.
They aren't easy jobs but do get better/ easier with practice. Hope it goes well
Cheers
Hugh
www.proudhoney.com