Melobar Mods

Jude Reinhardt · From: Weaverville, NC

Some changes I've made to my latest Melobar. Replaced the worn bottom grommets. These were actual lacing grommets like you find in work boots and the ball end of the strings would jam and eventually crack them. I replaced them with Fender Tele type, and put ferrules in the top holes where the strings come through the body.
The pickup is held by a screw at each corner and a pad of the material used on the back is under the pickup. After about thirty years this becomes compressed. I took the springs out of cheap ball-point pens and cut them to length and put one under each corner. The pickup height stays where it's adjusted to.
I replaced a bad tone pot with a 500K pot and cleaned the vol.control pot. We had thought they had been bypassed but like me they were just old and worn somewhat. Got b0b's Emajor Jagwires on it and it's a good one.
While tightening the screw that holds the nut on I discovered the ser.# stamped on the nut. LS 65795. I don't know what this tells me except my other Melobar with the EMG Select pictup has a six digit serial # LS658503.
Now I'll try to post some pics of my work on this one.

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Gary Lynch · From: Creston, California, USA

I have one just like it. The volume and tone pots were coded making it a 1971 model. Those pickups are great. I like mine.

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