I stumbled upon your TH-cam video about 9 months ago and bookmarked it, and I have been meaning to thank you for uploading it ever since. Way back in the mid 1990s, my partner and I visited Los Angeles. While we were there, we looked at various music shops. One had a late 1979 Les Paul Artist for sale which we bought and brought back with us to Melbourne, Australia. After a few months, I decided I did not like the active circuitry, so I removed the two circuit boards and re-wired the pickups to the original Gibson, humbucker schematic. To this day, I regret doing that as it never sounded right. I put all the boards, battery and some other parts into storage and there they have remained for 30 years. Watching your video has prompted me to put back and wire all circuit boards back to original factory specifications. I could not do that now without your video, as I have completely forgotten what I did and didn’t write down any notes. Many thanks for uploading this video. Please keep it here forever.
A timely video; I just changed the battery on my 80 ES Artist today! The original black battery foam disintegrated last year and had to be vacuumed-out. I replaced the foam with an old piece of T shirt, wrapped around the battery just to stop it moving around in the cavity.
I stumbled upon your TH-cam video about 9 months ago and bookmarked it, and I have been meaning to thank you for uploading it ever since. Way back in the mid 1990s, my partner and I visited Los Angeles. While we were there, we looked at various music shops. One had a late 1979 Les Paul Artist for sale which we bought and brought back with us to Melbourne, Australia. After a few months, I decided I did not like the active circuitry, so I removed the two circuit boards and re-wired the pickups to the original Gibson, humbucker schematic. To this day, I regret doing that as it never sounded right. I put all the boards, battery and some other parts into storage and there they have remained for 30 years. Watching your video has prompted me to put back and wire all circuit boards back to original factory specifications. I could not do that now without your video, as I have completely forgotten what I did and didn’t write down any notes. Many thanks for uploading this video. Please keep it here forever.
A timely video; I just changed the battery on my 80 ES Artist today! The original black battery foam disintegrated last year and had to be vacuumed-out. I replaced the foam with an old piece of T shirt, wrapped around the battery just to stop it moving around in the cavity.
Cool man. I’m going to re-do the shielding and I was trying to decide how I would replace that battery foam!