My Epiphone Newport project

[Bionic-Joe]

Thanks!!!!

[Basvarken]

I know most of you guys think I'm crazy for bothering about the pickguard on the restored Newport. But I just couldn't stop there.
So I had a new one made. Now the restore job is really done.

I didn't only fix the missing part near the pickup. But I also moved the hole for the switch a little more forward, because I thought it was too close to the volume knob on the old pickguard.

[Stjofön Big]

Really beautiful!

[Dave W]

Now it looks complete.

[shadowcastaz]

Makes me want to work on mine. Nice job!

[4stringer77]

Nice restoration work. How do you like the way the pickups sound together with the method that they are wired?

[Highlander]

Beautiful...

[Basvarken]

Nice restoration work. How do you like the way the pickups sound together with the method that they are wired?

The added bridge pickup makes the bass a useful weapon in a band situation.
But somehow the bridge pickup overpowers the neck pickup in the combined setting.
Therefor I have set the bridge pickup way down to help the neck pickup shine through a little bit more. Now you have the bridge pickup sound with added sort of subdued sub low.

[uwe]

That is the thing with mudbuckers always. You think that they will drown out any other pup known to man, yet it is the other way around, they have trouble making themselves heard in combination with other pups.

[Highlander]

Makes a nice combination with my Lollar in the PC ...

[Dave W]

That is the thing with mudbuckers always. You think that they will drown out any other pup known to man, yet it is the other way around, they have trouble making themselves heard in combination with other pups.

It's because of the frequencies of the mudbucker, not the output. Fletcher-Munson Curve.

[uwe]

Ah, now I know. The forum of scientific elucidation. Butcher-Manson curve you say?