Wow, just love this paint job! What George Harrison fan wouldn’t want one! The owner has done a fantastic job, with a couple of subtle twists of his own along the way. All it needs now is to be put back together, along with a pickup swap, and a full setup to make sure it […]
A rather nice Stratocaster. The owner just didn’t like the neck profile so found a replacement. Swapping a neck theoretically should be easy, it’s only 4 screws after all. If you get a genuine Fender neck, as this is then yes, it will fit straight in, but you will need to re-adjust the setup. Likewise […]
There are two reasons why you might want to have your frets dressed, the first is if they have uneven heights, particularly if you want a low action. The diagram below, not exactly to scale, shows how when the string (the red line) is pushed down at the 2nd fret it should just clear the […]
What a beautiful piece of wood! A lovely American Strat’, just needs a setup. The neck was rather flat. so ease off on the truss-rod a little. Adjusting the neck relief will throw the action at the 12th fret, so that needs to be reset. Starting with the outside “E” strings. and then the others, […]
A lovely guitar, just has a couple of setup problems. The intonation on the B string wasn’t very good. The bridge saddle isn’t compensated, the top is rolled over in a straight line The neck relief was rather large. I don’t even need to measure it, I can see by eye there’s too much curve. […]
What a great looking guitar. I like the build quality that you get at the price with Ibanez, although it’s probably not a guitar I would choose for myself. However this one is rather beautiful… It might be a fairly old guitar but it’s in very good condition so it doesn’t really need a lot […]
Ukuleles are really popular these days. This one is really nice and the owner wants an electric pickup fitted. Not a particularly difficult job, but lots of scope to cause a lot of damage…. The pickup sits under the bridge saddle, but the pickup is quite tall so if I just put it under […]
Swapping over a fully loaded pickguard should be a fairly easy job. Unfortunately that’s not always the case, particularly with a less popular make and cheaper parts. I had my fingers crossed but from the start it proved to be far more complicated, couldn’t even get the old pickguard off with the neck in place. […]
I do love a semi-acoustic, and I love a Bigsby. So why not put one on a 335? While I’m at it I’m going to change the bridge for one with rollers saddles since Bigsby tremolos are notorious for not staying in tune. I’m also going to fit a String Butler as the headstock shape […]
Here’s a rather nice Stratocaster, just needed a bit of a tweek on the setup. It’s got some nice pickups as well. Although for an American made Strat they got some basics wrong, the neck is on a little wonky. Since the neck will come off to adjust the truss-rod I’ll sort that out when […]