Guitar project
lab~rat >:-)
things that have been bugging me. I started with my Electra 2245 Les
Paul copy. I bought it new in '78 when I was a young noisemaker, and
it got set aside around '82 when I bought my first Strat.
Anyway, I don't remember the last time I played it, the strings were
crusted in rust and I remember that there was a short or something
somewhere. I changed the strings and not surprisingly, the "short"
was still there. Turns out it was just oxidation on the rhythm/treble
switch that I sanded off and now it works fine. I replaced some trim
and strap nuts that were cannibalized over the years.
I set it up and now I have another guitar to screw around with.
Almost like getting a new one.
If you aren't familiar with Electra guitars, here's an overly
obsessive web page that's cool to owners:
http://www.rivercityamps.com/electrapage/index.php?m=10&y=07&entry=entry071015-023616
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lab~rat >:-)
Do you want polite or do you want sincere?
rct
Guitar Player in one band used an Electra Les Paul forever. Much
later, 80's, I did own for a short time a locking vibrato typea
Electra Phoenix that I did actually use at times.
rct
Geetar Dave
My first two electric guitars were both Electras; first a Phoenix
hardtail with 3 single-coils, and then an Invicta with two humbuckers
and a coil-tap. I managed to break the truss rod on the Phoenix (after
installing EMG Pickups and a Kahler trem). I sold the Invicta to a
buddy, who still has it. He's become an Electra fan now too, and has
the Invicta, a Vulcan and an Outlaw. I do love those old Outlaws.
I hear that someone has bought out all the Electra stuff and is re-
issuing some of them. Great geetars.
-dave-----:::
www.myspace.com/geetardave
WB
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> If you aren't familiar with Electra guitars,
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The head stock is as funky as my Swede .. must have been
the common trend '70s :
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3020/2989476069_e72245cf27.jpg
Jim
> Work's slow, so I decided to go through my guitars and fix little
> things that have been bugging me. I started with my Electra 2245 Les
> Paul copy. I bought it new in '78 when I was a young noisemaker, and
> it got set aside around '82 when I bought my first Strat.
>
> Anyway, I don't remember the last time I played it, the strings were
> crusted in rust and I remember that there was a short or something
> somewhere. I changed the strings and not surprisingly, the "short"
> was still there. Turns out it was just oxidation on the rhythm/treble
> switch that I sanded off and now it works fine.
Sanding will remove any plating on the contacts, and really grind the
contact points making future problems almost a given.
Next time, try cleaning with Caig DeoxIt D5.
lab~rat >:-)
puked:
What kind of plating would be on the internal copper contacts of the
selector switch?
lab~rat >:-)
>On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:02:02 -0500, "lab~rat >:-)" <ch...@cheeze.net>
>wrote:
>Most commonly it would be a layer of nickel alloy capped with silver.
I would think that would be visible, it only appeared to be copper.
Maybe the surface eroded over time?