Taylor Setup Not something I would expect to have to do, a setup on a top end Taylor. A guitar setup is quite a personal thing though, so the standard factory setings may not suit everyone. The owner just wanted a slightly lower action. The neck had just a little more relief than I would […]
Category: Completed Projects
How do you deal with sharp fret ends?
How do you deal with sharp fret ends? There are a couple of reasons why your fret ends can seem sharp making the guitar hard and painful to play. The guitar was just badly made in the first place… The wood has dried out and shrunk a little, so leaving the fret ends poking out. […]
Gretsch Fret Dress
Had a quiet week or so but back to work with a rather nice Gretsch Nothing much really wrong with it apart from a bit of buzzing around the 14th fret. Looking closely there were a few slightly high and some worn frets so a fret- dress should sort that out, (the black marks are […]
Les Paul rebuild
A bit of a bag of nails, this one is going to need quite a bit of attention. The fingerboard is filthy and the frets are badly worn. Neither of the pickups are even connected so a complete re-wire is needed. First job, get the guitar on the jig, dress the frets and clean the […]
Ukulele nut and setup
Another Ukulele that seems a little hard to play. A very high action so the first job is to reduce the action height at the nut. Unfortunately the nut on this one was hollow so cutting deeper slots was not an option. The only choice is to cut a new one from Bone. Start with […]