UPGRADES!!! Eastwood Classic 6 HB-TL скачать в хорошем качестве

UPGRADES!!! Eastwood Classic 6 HB-TL

Sometimes you have to give a guitar a new heart so it can be everything it was intended to be. On the operating table today is the Eastwood Classic 6 HB-TL in Pelham Blue. I covered this guitar in an On the Bench Video in detail. The link to the video is in this video’s description:    • Eastwood Classic 6 HB-TL in Pelham Blue - ...   In that video I said that I thought the pickups were muddy and I would eventually replace them. It took me a while to gather the correct parts that I wanted to install and make upgrades to the pickups and electronics. This is not a sponsored video. I have got to say. I enjoy perusing the Eastwood website. There are so MANY guitars that are just so wacky looking and cool that I want to try out. The link is in the video description. I recently purchased a used Eastwood Sidejack DLX 2010s – Sunburst off of Reverb. Video to follow. https://eastwoodguitars.com/ Here are the parts I am using in the video today. I am installing a set of Gibson Burstbucker 1 and 2 pickups. These are Humbucker, Patent Applied For (PAF) pickups using Alnico 2 magnets. First released in early 2000. My pickups were made in 2003. The Burstbucker 1 is perfect for the neck position because of its lower output and the Burstbucker 2 is perfect for the bridge because of its higher output. My pickups are 2 conductor pickups, so this drives my circuit design and for the circuit I am going very old school. But to finish the pickups, I like to buy used pickups when I can. As long as they are functional and in good condition you can save a lot of money and get really good pickups. I always search on Reverb and try to buy Excellent to Mint condition. Burstbuckers new will go for just a few dollars shy of $300 dollars. Used I paid less than $200 for my set of pickups. Next, I set about buying the parts to assemble a wiring harness. Gibson circuits are pretty easy to build and to be honest some of the easiest. I wanted the following components. • 4 USA CTS 500k $30 • 2 Mallory Mustard.022uF tone capacitors. $8 • Switchcraft short frame 3-way toggle switch $30 • Switchcraft jack. $10 It just amazes me how much some of these components cost. I mean $30 including shipping for a switch. Together all of the parts would cost me with shipping around $70. I ended up finding Vintage Relic on Reverb. I could get the complete built wiring harness with all of the same components that I wanted for $94. Link to the store in the video description. https://reverb.com/shop/vintages-awes... Removing the pickups, wiring harness, and output jack form Eastwood was fairly straight forward. All you do is unscrew everything and then pull it all out of the f hole. Guitars made in Asia that are using smaller, less expensive metric sized parts. The US parts that use imperial measurements will not fit in the same holes. The holes for the two volume pots in the guitar were too small and I needed to ream them out so they would be able to handle the CTS pots. The two tone pot holes were the correct size because Eastwood had installed larger push pull pots. Next, I guided the two pickup cables through the body and tape them to the outside of the f hole. I installed the screws for the pickup rings and secured the pickups in place. With two conductor pickups there are only the center hot lead and the outer braided ground to solder to each of the two volume pots. The last wire to solder is the ground wire from the bridge. You do this soldering outside of the guitar before placing everything inside the guitar’s cavity through the f hole. I tested the circuit by plugging into an amp and using the tap test could tell everything was wired up correctly. Installing the new wiring harness started with just feeding all of the components in through the f hole. What makes this installation easy is all of the components are near the f hole and I was able to use the open output jack hole and f – hole as access to use a set of forceps to guide each of the pots and the switch into place. I finished up the job by installing the output jack football plate and the four knobs. The guitar was ready to be restrung. This is a really pretty guitar. Now with the new pickups and wiring harness it is on par with the Epiphone Signature model. I purchased the guitar for $700 and all of the new parts are $300. I have seen used Epiphone DG335 models for as low as $1000. They do come with a great hardshell case. I ended up purchasing a 335 case for my Eastwood for around $149. If you are only in this for the dollars the Epiphone is the better economical decision. When I purchased the Eastwood I was hoping I would not have to do the upgrades I just perfomed.