Burns Marquee – Fret Dress and Setup

A lovely guitar, just not quite as good as you would hope… The nut slots have been widened out and then repaired, rather badly.  The only real way to fix that is to replace the nut. Some of the frets are a little un-even, so I’m going to dress them to get a common level. […]

Epiphone Les Paul – Setup

A nice one this, just needs a little TLC.. Nothing much wrong with it really, just needed a little bit of a clean and oil.. followed by a standard 5 point setup.. 1. The neck set… A little high so a turn on the truss-rod… 2. The action at the 12th fret… a little high […]

Guitar Tone Improvement

  Want better tone from your guitar?  Even with good quality pickups you can loose signal through the tone circuits.  Set to 10 there is still some signal going through the variable resistor and capacitor. There is a solution, variable resistors that go to open circuit when at max, thereby disconnecting the tone circuit completely. This is a Stratocaster I upgraded recently.  These […]

Fender Telecaster Setup

Had a lovely Tele’ on the bench this week, a 52 Re-Issue.  Nothing really wrong with it, just needed a setup to get it playing right… The trouble with these guitars is the truss-rod adjustment, it’s on the bottom of the neck.  You could make the adjustment by loosening the strings and the neck, give […]

Samick – Fret dress and setup

A nice looking guitar, sadly the build quality has rather let it down. The first problem was a dodgy volume control, a little intermittent. I was going to replace it but once I got the wiring out I found a dry joint.  I would say it was an easier fix but the biggest problem is […]

Problematic Gretsch

Had a bit of a problem with a Gretsch this week.  The owner wanted a setup to cure some fret buzzing, sadly it needed a bit more than just that.  The frets were quite uneven so they needed dressing to get the most out of it. Rather uneven frets….Grinding the frets to level the tops…Once […]