What a beautiful Guitar. Really nicely made, but with a rather high action. The neck set was about right, so nothing I can do there. The frets are nice and even so I can afford to bring the action down by quite a bit. Up at the 12th fret the action is much too high… […]
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Freshman – Setup and lower action
This is another nice one. I’m not a great fan of Freshman but this one feels right. Nothing much wrong, just a little high in the action. The neck had just a little too much set in it for my liking. so flatten it out just a little. I did that with the old strings […]
Classical Acoustic – New Nut and Saddle
This needs a little TLC if it’s going to play again. The bridge saddle is badly damaged so I’m going to make a new one. The nut’s broken as well, so that’ll need to be replaced as well. First the nut. From a bone blank. Next the saddle, using the old one as guide. One […]
Gretsch Country Gentleman – Neck binding
Finally got back to that old Gretsch. Rather fragile, just handling it and bits of the binding are just falling off. The only way to be able to play it, is to strip it all off and replace it. I found some modern binding that just about matches the colour of the old stuff. It’s […]
Texas Custom Telecaster – Setup
What a lovely piece of wood, a really great looking guitar. It’s got a couple of problems, mostly just setup, but the neck isn’t on straight either. Since the truss-rod adjustment is on the heel of the neck I’ll have to take it off anyway. I don’t need to measure that with a feeler gauge, […]
11 String Tanglewood – Bone Nut
An odd one this, one of the strings wouldn’t stay in it’s slot. I thought the nut was broken but the slots were at a bit of an angle. Easy answer, a new bone nut. A nice guitar though. While the strings are off, a good clean. and oil… I don’t have any 12 string […]
Hohner – Re-Wire and setup.
A bit of a battered Hohner, in need of a little TLC…… The owner wants some new pickups fitting for a start, these pickups’ll sound fantastic but I fear it’ll need a little more than that… I think it’s a bit of a waste to fit a great set of pickups like that but leave the […]
Broken Rickenbacker
On no, I broke my first Rickenbacker!!! I can’t remember when I bought it but it must have been around 1979, London phone numbers changed to 4 digit dial codes a long time ago! I seem to remember fixing this once before.. However… Let’s see if it holds this time, I don’t think it’s replaceable. […]
Epiphone Les-Paul, Fret dress and Bone nut
Epiphone make some great guitars, they can just be a little inconsistent sometimes. The action on this one’s way too high. I don’t need to measure the amount of neck set, I can see it’s way to large. It’s also got a broken switch, but that’s an easy fix. First thing then, take off the strings, […]
Taylor GS Mini – Electric pickup
Great guitars these, I do like Taylors. But what do you do if you want to plug it in? You could chop it in for a new one, or convert it and add an after market pickup. There are some quite good kits out there. This one’s quite a simple it to fit, the built in […]