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  • Wax potting the switch and control cavity!!!

    I sure hope my customer doesn't frequent this forum.

    In all the years I've been doing guitar repair/mods, I've never, ever, seen this before: wax potting the switch and control cavity on a Les Paul. ('74 LP Custom Shop, to boot.) Then it quit working. Who'da guessed? What would possess someone to do this? What a friggin' mess to clean up. I'm ultrasonic bathing the switch and pots now. He want's to keep all the original controls since it's a '74 CS LP. We'll see.

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    Someone got the wrong idea.

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    • #3
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      wow

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      • #4
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        The customer is a super nice guy, with little technical savvy. So someone must've put him up to this.

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        • #5
          Re: Wax potting the switch and control cavity!!!

          Oh my
          Well be nice when you touch base
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          • #6
            Re: Wax potting the switch and control cavity!!!

            That's hilarious.

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            • #7
              Re: Wax potting the switch and control cavity!!!

              To be fair there won’t be any feedback so it did the trick!

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              • #8
                Re: Wax potting the switch and control cavity!!!

                the 70s were a weird time. People came up with all sorts of 'fixes' we'd have to later un-do.
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                • #9
                  Re: Wax potting the switch and control cavity!!!

                  There is that.

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                  • #10
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                    '74 LP "Custom Shop?" What is that? A reissue? Or do you just mean a '74 LP Custom?
                    Originally posted by LesStrat
                    Yogi Berra was correct.
                    Originally posted by JOLLY
                    I do a few chord things, some crappy lead stuff, and then some rhythm stuff.

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                    • #11
                      Re: Wax potting the switch and control cavity!!!

                      Originally posted by ItsaBass View Post
                      '74 LP "Custom Shop?" What is that? A reissue? Or do you just mean a '74 LP Custom?
                      I'm not exactly sure. My luthier friend knows better than me. I know it's a genuine '74 because the pot codes are correct. But I do need to tread lightly with a customers guitar. (I smeared the serial number.)

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                      • #12
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                        Originally posted by ArtieToo View Post
                        I'm not exactly sure. My luthier friend knows better than me. I know it's a genuine '74 because the pot codes are correct. But I do need to tread lightly with a customers guitar. (I smeared the serial number.)

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                        It's a 1974 LP Custom – no "Shop," just LP Custom, the name of the model. There was no Custom Shop in 1974. There is, however, a recent Historic '74 reissue. Many people erroneously call Historics "Custom Shop" guitars, so I thought it might be one of those.
                        Originally posted by LesStrat
                        Yogi Berra was correct.
                        Originally posted by JOLLY
                        I do a few chord things, some crappy lead stuff, and then some rhythm stuff.

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                        • #13
                          Re: Wax potting the switch and control cavity!!!

                          It takes all kinds man, that's... something alright.

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                          • #14
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                            Holy crap.
                            aka Chris Pile, formerly of Six String Fever

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                            • #15
                              Re: Wax potting the switch and control cavity!!!

                              Made my heart hurt a little to see this, Artie.

                              PS: thanks for the Demud mod - my 335 and LP both received it on their neck pickups recently, and the 335 is especially grateful!


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