"Thank you for watching" he says - after all the time it took to film and edit this in addition to the time put into doing it all right - and all just to share the love/school us. Thank you Beau. Oh, BTW, hate to be that guy - it just comes naturally - but other than your wish to standardize the jack system, could it not be left with a hardwired, short 'stem' cable w/a 1/4" female end into which a male cord is relayed? Or even a phone size coupling with a 1/4" plug on one end to the amp? This has commonly been done when retrofitting pickguard-mounted floating pickups on vintage acoustic archtops when you don't want to drill a hole for a standard jack plate.
Thanks for saying that :) Means alot. There were a few jack options available. I do love the look of the Electro socket (which seems to have been designed for the Telecaster but I use it on everything i can! If it works, it works is a decent motto for alot of things, there being rarely only just one perfect way to do something.
Great decision in my opinion. Proper function over perceived intrinsic value with pure "vintage" adherence. I'm sure others will disagree, but opinions are like that, they differ.
So glad this popped up on my feed! I recently purchased an early '46 Princeton Steel with serial stamped into the wood, A51. I plan to restore it faithfully, but i think the electro-jack is genius. Its scary to modify a historic piece but you did it with an engineers precision, the jig was real clever. They wouldve been hogging away willy-nilly with a forstner bit at the factory! I'll be sure to reqch out with some questions, since ive not decided on who to get my pickup repair done by, and to get some recommendations for other tweaks.
Thanks- man A51!- you got one made on the first day!!!! I can’t remember if I through the jig away but I’ll keep an eye out for it and if I still have it it’s yours. I’ve seen a few pics of the plate pulled up and the cavity space looks different so it might be that the jack is in a different place to the pot. I should have mentioned (I did in video but didn’t say it) that I moved the center of the jack over to the butt end as far as I could - the edge of the 7/8” forsner bit touched the edge of the original bushing thingy- so I moved the center over about 1/8 or a bit more (I can’t remember exactly as I filmed this mid 2022. Just measure the heck out of it and make a 3D jig so you can be sure it all works before you drill into the real thing. A barrel jack may work (as someone else mentioned) but on mine I don’t think I had enough room inside as a barrel jack it fatter then just a jack. And electro sockets look cool 😎
I believe the "warmth" of the nickel plating comes from the copper layer just beneath the nickel plating. Nickel adheres much better to copper than directly to steel, but copper sticks to both, so it's often used in nickel plating.
First off, the hole the pot goes in looks like it was chewed out with a screwdriver and a butter knife 😂 I had to do something similar with a '67 Silvertone 1483 amp. It's a separate head and cabinet, but the speaker lead was hardwired in to the amp. 1/4" jack and a 3 prong power cord to the rescue. Just curious on this one, would a barrel jack have been a better choice? The leads are closer together and you might not have needed to drill a bigger hole. Just a thought anyway. Anyway, great work my friend, sounds pretty amazing after the rewire.
Hello and thanks. A barrel jack may have also worked but maybe not as it’s thicker then just a jack. It was Ssssooooooo close getting it in there under the pot. It would have been easier to move the center of the jack lower but then it would look strange.
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"Thank you for watching" he says - after all the time it took to film and edit this in addition to the time put into doing it all right - and all just to share the love/school us. Thank you Beau. Oh, BTW, hate to be that guy - it just comes naturally - but other than your wish to standardize the jack system, could it not be left with a hardwired, short 'stem' cable w/a 1/4" female end into which a male cord is relayed? Or even a phone size coupling with a 1/4" plug on one end to the amp? This has commonly been done when retrofitting pickguard-mounted floating pickups on vintage acoustic archtops when you don't want to drill a hole for a standard jack plate.
Thanks for saying that :) Means alot. There were a few jack options available. I do love the look of the Electro socket (which seems to have been designed for the Telecaster but I use it on everything i can! If it works, it works is a decent motto for alot of things, there being rarely only just one perfect way to do something.
Great decision in my opinion. Proper function over perceived intrinsic value with pure "vintage" adherence. I'm sure others will disagree, but opinions are like that, they differ.
Hi Mike- yep- I’m usually in the “keep it original” camp but not for this or 1960’s Gibson plastic bridges
The first thing I changed in my Tele was that silly socket! Practical is more important than historical IMHO!
Hahahah- those electro sockets are great - I just put one in my Les Paul !
So glad this popped up on my feed! I recently purchased an early '46 Princeton Steel with serial stamped into the wood, A51. I plan to restore it faithfully, but i think the electro-jack is genius. Its scary to modify a historic piece but you did it with an engineers precision, the jig was real clever. They wouldve been hogging away willy-nilly with a forstner bit at the factory!
I'll be sure to reqch out with some questions, since ive not decided on who to get my pickup repair done by, and to get some recommendations for other tweaks.
Thanks- man A51!- you got one made on the first day!!!! I can’t remember if I through the jig away but I’ll keep an eye out for it and if I still have it it’s yours. I’ve seen a few pics of the plate pulled up and the cavity space looks different so it might be that the jack is in a different place to the pot. I should have mentioned (I did in video but didn’t say it) that I moved the center of the jack over to the butt end as far as I could - the edge of the 7/8” forsner bit touched the edge of the original bushing thingy- so I moved the center over about 1/8 or a bit more (I can’t remember exactly as I filmed this mid 2022.
Just measure the heck out of it and make a 3D jig so you can be sure it all works before you drill into the real thing. A barrel jack may work (as someone else mentioned) but on mine I don’t think I had enough room inside as a barrel jack it fatter then just a jack. And electro sockets look cool 😎
Nice work! I have one similar 1946 sound great, same works!
Thanks
Thanks 😊 nice instruments
I believe the "warmth" of the nickel plating comes from the copper layer just beneath the nickel plating. Nickel adheres much better to copper than directly to steel, but copper sticks to both, so it's often used in nickel plating.
Hi Patrick. Thanks for the info. I would have guessed it was from cooper but didn’t know that nickel adheres to it better.
First off, the hole the pot goes in looks like it was chewed out with a screwdriver and a butter knife 😂 I had to do something similar with a '67 Silvertone 1483 amp. It's a separate head and cabinet, but the speaker lead was hardwired in to the amp. 1/4" jack and a 3 prong power cord to the rescue.
Just curious on this one, would a barrel jack have been a better choice? The leads are closer together and you might not have needed to drill a bigger hole. Just a thought anyway.
Anyway, great work my friend, sounds pretty amazing after the rewire.
Hello and thanks. A barrel jack may have also worked but maybe not as it’s thicker then just a jack. It was Ssssooooooo close getting it in there under the pot. It would have been easier to move the center of the jack lower but then it would look strange.
Made the same decision on my 49 Supro with built in cord and 50 national with screw on plug
Coolio. Gotta love those Supro's
What is that fretboard made of? Bake light?
From memory- something chromes. It was a bit too shiny to be aluminum.
Typically they are tuned to a C6th chord
I can’t remember what I tuned this too