Morales ZES-300 has landed

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Morales ZES-300 has landed

Postby 6stings » Fri Nov 02, 2012 11:53 pm

Thanks slapshot!
It needs some serious cleaning and buffing, but I'll let it keep all the scars from a 40+ years of misbehaviour!
Pics will come when it's decent :D
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Re: Morales ZES-300 has landed

Postby Brian » Sun Nov 04, 2012 4:41 pm

Pictures please.

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Re: Morales ZES-300 has landed

Postby 6stings » Mon Nov 05, 2012 3:00 pm

Sure Brian! It's still a work in progress, since I decided to check and fix every detail on it.
The body is cleaned.
The pickup routings are cleaned to the wood.
The neck pocket looked like it have been chisseled first 1.5 mm deeper and then 2 plastic 1 mm shims glued inn?! I removed the shims, filled the whole pocked with epoxy and rerouted it to give the neck heel a full contact...

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All chrome hardware taken apart for cleaning.

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The pickups cleaned and the old steel screw poles replaced with the new allen steel screws. The new poles magnetize 10 times better than the originals, not sure it would have any effect on the tone, we'll see.

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All original and non original rusty screws will be replaced.
All neck and neck joint screw holes filled, glued, redrilled to fit '55 Chevy interior trim chrome plated screws.

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The Vibra Matic was missing the string block and the handle, so I made a string bar by cuttins a piece of my son's percussion stand, the only 9.3 mm thick chrom piece I could find. A perfect fit.
Yes, the 4 Chevy screws replaced the weak, rusty original mounting screws here too.

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The oddly routed control cavity is cleaned, but I'll rerouted it a little more to shape it nicely, well, it will take a little weight off too:))

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The neck will be cleaned and frets polished in the next faze...

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Re: Morales ZES-300 has landed

Postby Veenture » Mon Nov 05, 2012 3:10 pm

Good job! Thanks for sharing the wonderful pictures :)
Do you happen to know what kind of wood was used for the neck (Ash)?

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Re: Morales ZES-300 has landed

Postby 6stings » Mon Nov 05, 2012 3:40 pm

Thanks V!
Tha body has to be mahogany. It's not a plywood, but it's pretty heavy. It looks like it was made like a mahogany sandwich: two 1" plates glued together. You can see a contact line in the bridge pickup cavity picture if you enlarge it, about 3-4 mm from the bottom.
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Re: Morales ZES-300 has landed

Postby slapshot » Mon Nov 05, 2012 4:49 pm

maple for the neck mahogany for the body.pancake sounds right too.they've all had a neck shim in there too

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Re: Morales ZES-300 has landed

Postby 6stings » Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:07 pm

slapshot wrote:maple for the neck mahogany for the body.pancake sounds right too.they've all had a neck shim in there too


I love pancakes:)
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Re: Morales ZES-300 has landed

Postby 6stings » Sat Nov 10, 2012 4:28 pm

Wasn't happy with the old tortoise pickuguard, so I made a new one :D
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Re: Morales ZES-300 has landed

Postby Veenture » Sun Nov 11, 2012 3:37 am

Fantastic photography, my compliments. If your new pickguard has no name yet, how about "Autumn Leaves" :)

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Re: Morales ZES-300 has landed

Postby 6stings » Sun Nov 11, 2012 4:57 am

Thanks V :D
Hope it will look little less sad in 'autumn leaves' than in tortoise.
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