Considering an ES-335 CRR - Page 6

sangandongo · March 10th, 2009, 07:56 AM

I didn't think you called anyone on the mat at all. There's no way to know how any of us play but for to see or listen to music we may post. That said, cuz I'm surprised to be the judicial one for once, go pick up your respective CRR and CRS today (yeah, there's a Stereo guy on here!) and strum, pick, pluck and wail.

wilywelch335 · March 10th, 2009, 08:42 AM

Okeee, dokee!

dsharman · March 10th, 2009, 09:10 AM

Wiley, As I had mentioned, it was most likely the ambiguity of electronic communication. Depending on how one read the comments, they could be general or personal.

As for mods, actually I am pretty much in the same camp as you. My CRR is 100% original and the only mod on my LP was to change the tuners because the quality of the originals was not great. A very common change for that time period.

No harm, no foul.

Have a great day.

eggman · June 19th, 2009, 07:38 AM

Howdy,

I'm glad to read posts from all the happy ES-335CRR owners like Dsharmon, Willy welch335 and Sandongo. This thread actually enhances the ownership experience. If that sounds corny, so be it.
I wanted to post that my new house has those cursed dimmer switches, thus I have no ground..which means alot of 60 cycle hum with all of my guitars except my ES-335CRR!

This baby intonates fantastic and plays like a dream, forgive the cliches.
I've a new amp that was made for my 335: A Dr. Z Carmen Ghia! This guitar/amp combination is more fun than Peanut M&Ms! I'm totally sold on SD '59s; these P/Us allow me to come pretty close to the tone one expects to hear from a vintage ES-335. Now..back to my 335 and some more 'Stones numbers.

Eggman

sangandongo · October 18th, 2009, 02:41 PM

Egg: I'm curious if you retained the coil tapping functionality of the CRR. That, in my opinion, is one reason this guitar is so versatile. I can get near telecaster tones from it in single coil / bridge position. in full / neck, I can get that dark, brooding, lovely 335 sound and anything in between.

By lowering my dirty fingers way down, I was able to make the tone just how i like it. I then fine tuned it with the pole pieces to compensate for the thinner strings.

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eggman · February 28th, 2010, 07:57 AM

Howdy,

Sandongo: When I ordered SD '59s to replace the P/Us I believed to be the original "Dirty Fingers", I didn't specify that they were to be covered or have coil-split capability. So my '59s arrived without covers (dual black bobbins on each P/U) and designed for just humbucking operation.
Had I given the matter more thought, I'd have ordered '59s with Nickel covers and able to be split. Face it: I'm a dunce! Anyway, I'm quite happy to have P/Us that beat the daylights out of the nickel covered HBers that came on my CRR.
There's just one little thing that bugs me: Every pic of an original CRR I've seen shows that it has uncovered P/Us! (Dirty Fingers). Mine came with Nickel covers when I bought it used..

Eggman

sangandongo · February 28th, 2010, 12:47 PM

Correctamundo. Only the CRS had covered dirty fingers. The CRR had uncovered creme bobbins with two rows of adjustable poles instead of the normal one row.

On my CRR, I lowered the pickups to be about flush to the rings and then raised the poles on the coil which gets tapped, that way it compensates for volume loss. I spent a lot of time fine tuning the pickups on the two CRRs because I knew they were good, I just needed to find the right placement.

Just fyi, my two CRRs are very different; one is a bit darker tone wise. That one also has a wider neck... no idea why they're so different.

J.k

eggman · March 6th, 2010, 07:23 PM

Howdy,

Sangandongo: Thanks for all the info-and your clip; I enjoyed it. This is an informative, enjoyable thread.
Ya'll don't forget to post your favorite tone recipes with your ES-335CRR. By that I mean amps, speakers, tubes, etc. (My favorite recipe is already posted above.)

Eggman

littleAngel89 · March 9th, 2010, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by dsharman

Just to wrap up this story. I bought the guitar just after Christmas. I gigged with her New Year's Eve and once since then. It plays great. The pickups are very hot and I'm considering swapping them out, but we'll see. I'll try to post some pictures, hopefully it works.

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Eggman, Thanks for your help.

Dave

Well, I think yours is really impressed. Why don't you try upload some piece of music that you play with this guitar?
That must be great, I'm sure

wilywelch335 · April 16th, 2010, 08:48 AM

Ok, so I did a little modification to my 1979 ES 335 CRR. Hope you like it!