My Epiphone Newport project

Bionic-Joe · December 02, 2015, 08:35:38 AM

Thanks!!!!

Basvarken · December 26, 2015, 03:02:51 PM

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 · December 26, 2015, 04:09:55 PM

Really beautiful!

Dave W · December 26, 2015, 05:44:34 PM

Now it looks complete.

shadowcastaz · December 28, 2015, 12:49:01 PM

Makes me want to work on mine. Nice job!

4stringer77 · December 28, 2015, 01:10:09 PM

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

Highlander · December 28, 2015, 02:07:13 PM

Beautiful...

Basvarken · December 28, 2015, 04:03:34 PM

Quote from: 4stringer77 on December 28, 2015, 01:10:09 PM
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 · December 29, 2015, 02:24:59 PM

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 · December 29, 2015, 04:04:39 PM

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

Dave W · December 29, 2015, 09:19:23 PM

Quote from: uwe on December 29, 2015, 02:24:59 PM
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 · December 30, 2015, 03:01:56 AM

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