ES335 rattle

[dragonworks]

I have had a rattle in my ES335 since the day i got it. No one can find where it is coming from. I brought it to a luthier and he said, if you don't hear it plugged in, live with it?

 

[MCI2424]

I have had a rattle in my ES335 since the day i got it. No one can find where it is coming from. I brought it to a luthier and he said, if you don't hear it plugged in, live with it?

It is the pickup rings/assembly. Took me a while to find it years ago too.

 

[dragonworks]

I will look into that. Its funny, you can't tell where it is coming from by listening.

 

[Hard2Hear]

I'd bet its a saddle. Just cause all my Les Pauls do it from time to time. You gotta snug the saddle up to where it sits. Drives me crazy that theyre just loose enough to come loose and rattle.

Is it mainly when you play certian strings?

H2H

 

[dragonworks]

I'd bet its a saddle. Just cause all my Les Pauls do it from time to time. You gotta snug the saddle up to where it sits. Drives me crazy that theyre just loose enough to come loose and rattle.

Is it mainly when you play certian strings?

H2H

I had Jimmy Eppard go over it, he builds guitars all day long, 30 yrs exp., he couldn't pinpoint it. We only looked for about 15 minutes though.

 

[ibanezrocks]

I had a rattle coming from my pickups before, it was the spring in the height adjustment that was rattling around. I took it out, looked at it, put it back without doing anything and the rattle was gone.

 

[mixsit]

That makes for a not nice playing vibe at all. Hunt that sucker down!
Some parts like the pickups shpuld be easy to eliminate by pessing on them to see if it stops. I had a guit' that seemed to vibrate from the trus rod. (Thump a little harder on the neck? ...
ES-355 here. All those gibson springy-wamy tail pieces are gone in favor of solid post tail. Same reason.
I know, I hacked the 'classic status right out of it. (So what the hell. Let's coil-split the p/u's too! )
Wayne

 

[dragonworks]

I have held down everything I could possibly hold down. Bridge pieces, tuners, pickups, trapeze tailpiece etc, nothing seems to stop it. It is the mystery rattle from hell, but there is no problem when plugged in.

 

[invisiblenemies]

I have had a rattle in my ES335 since the day i got it. No one can find where it is coming from.

I'll take it off your hands if you can't "live with it." I'm sure I could.

 

[easychair]

Wires?

Truss rod? The one in my strat rattles.

 

[hixmix]

I have held down everything I could possibly hold down. Bridge pieces, tuners, pickups, trapeze tailpiece etc, nothing seems to stop it.

Your ES-335 has a trapeze tailpiece? Did it come like that or was it a mod?

 

[dragonworks]

Your ES-335 has a trapeze tailpiece? Did it come like that or was it a mod?

its original....

 

[DunderXIII]

My 335 rattled when the intonation adjustment screws on the bridge saddles were loose. It was a matter of rotating them a bit without moving the saddle so that the screw would become tight.