I had a look at a Bass today with a request for a setup. There wasn’t really anything that needed doing so I just gave it a clean and a new set of strings. The guy brought them himself and wow, what a set of strings…. These are going to look great under a UV light! I’d rather […]
Month: February 2014
Telecaster Custom – Rebuild final update
The final stage, fit the strings and a setup, should be easy, not with this one…. more problems…. Starting with the neck set, a little large…. so a quick turn of the truss-rod. So far so good. The action at the first fret is a little high…….. so I cut each nut slot down a […]
Telecaster Custom – Rebuild 6th update
Well I finally think I’ve got it worried. I did hope to have it finished this afternoon but then, what was I thinking, anything on this guitar was always going to take twice as long as planned! Next then the neck picukup cavity. Needs to ba at least this much bigger… With a small router […]
Telecaster Custom – Rebuild 5th update
A few more parts arrived today, the screws for the pickups. Guess what? even that didn’t work out as easily as I would have liked. Should have expected that I suppose, I think this guitar hates me. Well you know what, I’m starting to hate it back!!! One of the screw holes is very worn so the […]
Telecaster Custom – Rebuild 4th update
This thing is really bugging me now. Every time I touch it something else doesn’t work! I finally worked out why the neck pickup wasn’t sitting properly…. The cutout for the pickup doesn’t line up exactly with the cavity in the body, there is about a 2mm lip that is just catching the pickup. Another […]
Telecaster Custom – Rebuild 3rd update
BAck to the Tele… Holes Plugged…. Turning my attention to the pick-guard there are more problems, I seem to be having one of those days! I had a look at the pickups but they haven’t come with any springs or screws. I keep a stock but guess what, none fit so I’ll have to order […]
Telecaster Custom – Rebuild 2nd update
Re-shaping the frets isn’t difficult, it just takes time and patience along with the right file.. Making sure only to file the edges of the fret and round it off without touching the top. Half way through fret No.1… Some time later, all done…. The file leaves a very rough finish so each fret now needs re-polishing […]
Telecaster Custom – Rebuild 1st update
I was out of the workshop all morning and had another small job to finish so didn’t manage as much as I would have liked. However I made a start on the fret-board. The first, and probably most important step, make sure the fret-board is perfectly flat. With the neck flat I always mask up the fet-board […]
Telecaster Custom – Rebuild
Got an interesting job lined up. Build a Telecaster Custom. The body, neck and pickups are second-hand but everything else will be new. The frets are rather worn so the first job will be to sort those out. I was out of the workshop all morning and had another small job to finish so didn’t manage […]