Smelly old 57 Supro...

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Re: Smelly old 57 Supro...

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Took some photos with a proper camera :)

Now this is finished I can get stuck into the Tele again!

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That looks freakn cool man, great job. Great vision.
Look forward to a few clips ?

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So cool !
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That looks really awesome.
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thats a massive improvement! Suits white so much better, and nice job with the pickguard.

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That looks excellent.

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Re: Smelly old 57 Supro...

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Yeahorright, you win; that's better.

Way, way better.

You shouldn't have sucked on the headstock while thinking though.
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Re: Smelly old 57 Supro...

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Slowy wrote:Yeahorright, you win; that's better.

Way, way better.

You shouldn't have sucked on the headstock while thinking though.
I'm getting a quote for a Dual Tone logo haha...

Anyway, tone clip I believe this is the first thing that any self respecting Supro Dual Tone owner should play.

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Awesome. Sounds mint! Love me a bit of wary

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wow that is awesome man! great job!

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oh oh oh!! Just got round to swapping a jensen neo out of my 5E3 and put a weber alnico in.... it sounds absolutely glorious with the Supro :D I need to run the vibrolux in stereo too :) damn need me some spring reverb lol
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Real cool project.
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Bg wrote:
bender wrote:Awesomeness! Itching to get my hands on this!
paging JB, bender wants his hands on my old wood.
He's not the only bender who wants to :thumbup:
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Nice work BG.
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Re: Smelly old 57 Supro...

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been on the workbench this morning. Took her over to slowy's on sunday and noticed one of the volume pots was no longer working :(

All looked ok but I stripped the wiring out to remake all the joints and test the pots, oil filled caps etc...

So the pots are all original from 1956 :D And the caps are still fine too, not bad for their age lol. Resoldered all the wiring and drew out the circuit, but it seems to be just a standard 2 vol, 2 tone pot circuit. pots all read about 270K

Put the neck pup back in reversed to try and brighten it a little but its still pretty dark, oh well, its great for woman tone lol.

Next on the bench is the tele, installing the ferrules. I should do some work but fuggit, missus is out all day, may crank an amp or two :D
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