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Category: Electric

Gibson Les Paul – Pickup and electrics upgrade

16th July 2025 George

There are a lot of after-market pickups out there which can represent a good upgrade.  While I was at that with this guitar the owner also wanted me to remove the modern printed circuit board and replace it with traditional potentiometers and capacitors, he felt they would be more reliable in the long run. The […]

 Completed Projects, Electric, Electric Guitar, General, Guitars, Uncategorised

Ibanez RG – Fret Dress

11th July 2025 George

This a rather unusual one, Ibanez guitars are normally a lot better than this… Having set it up to a normal standard it was choking out badly at the first fret.  Turns out the first fret is really low.  The only way to dial that problem out would be to put in a rather excessive […]

 Completed Projects, Electric, Electric Guitar, Improvements, Uncategorised

Jazzmaster – Shielding and Pickup swap

26th June 2025 George

Need to improve the sound of your guitar?  How about a new set of pickups and shield the pickup cavity to stop any unwanted hum while you’re at it… The inside of the Jazzmaster must be about as complicated as they come.  However, a one-for-one pickup swap should be easy. Before the new pickups go […]

 Electric, Electric Guitar, General, Guitars, Improvements, Uncategorised

Custom built “Les Paul” style guitar

30th May 2025 George

A kit guitar, just needs finishing off and setting up. It does have some problems though, the frets are very uneven and so causing quite a lot of fret-buzz. The first fret in particular is rather low.  That’s a big problem as it means having to take every other fret down to that level. So, […]

 Custom Built, Electric, Electric Guitar, Guitars, Improvements, Uncategorised

Hofner bridge and nut upgrade

25th May 202529th May 2025 George

A rather nice guitar, but with room for improvement.   I’ve had this guitar in the workshop before but we couldn’t quite get the intonation properly adjusted as there wasn’t enough space to move the saddles far enough. The nut is also plastic, so while we’re upgrading the bridge, I’ll cut and fit a bone […]

 Electric, Electric Guitar, Guitars, Improvements, Uncategorised

Fender Stratocaster – Neck transplant.

15th July 202030th December 2020 George

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 […]

 Electric, Uncategorised

Fender Stratocaster – Setup

6th July 202030th December 2020 George

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, […]

 Electric, Electric Guitar, Uncategorised

Schecter – Bent bridge

19th November 201930th December 2020 George

Fret Buss? there can be several reasons for that,  this Schecter had a problem that I’d never encountered before… I’ve never encountered a bridge so bent out of shape. The top should be flat, with a curved bottom… I can’t fix that so it had to be replaced, there’s the new one, flat top, curved […]

 Electric, Repairs, Uncategorised
Epiphone Firebird Bass Guitar

Epiphone Firebird – High fret

26th October 201930th December 2020 George

Hight frets?  That can be sorted quite easily… A single fret isn’t something I would normally do on it’s own but there’s always an exception to the rule.  This Firebird had just one slightly high fret. As there is just one odd fret I took just a little off the top.. Enough to level them […]

 Bass Guitar, Electric, Electric Guitar, General, Guitars, Uncategorised

Flying V – Hard Landing

2nd August 201930th December 2020 George

  They say flying is easy, it’s the landing that can bight!  Well this Flying V may have flown well but it must have been a hard landing! I’m not sure what happened but the neck pocket has been split along the line of the neck. It should have been quite simple.  I opened up […]

 Electric, Electric Guitar, Repairs, Uncategorised

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