What a fantastic night out, watching The Story of the Guitar Heroes in the New Theatre Royal Lincoln. I’ve been struggling for more years than I care to remember to master the Guitar, I could practice for 25 hours a day for the next 200 years and I’ll still not achieve these levels! The playing […]
All done. Cut the slots in the nut and finished off with a full setup. Looks even better with strings fitted. To see the re-fret in full click here.
I’ve got a few pre-shaped bone nuts but, alas, none that would fit. The only other blanks I’ve got are a little large and will therefore need a little more work to make one fit. Once I’ve cut it roughly down to size (I’ll get at least 2 nuts from that blank) I’ll use the sanding disk to […]
It’s coming along, slowly, but then re-shaping and polishing each fret is rather time-consuming. There really is no other way of doing it but one at a time with finer and finer micromesh cloth. Neck complete. The next step is to make a new nut then bolt the neck back on the guitar. To see […]
Just now and again something really nice comes across the bench. In this case an early 90s US Stratocaster. What’s nice, and almost a little odd is the condition. The frets are badly worn, it really has seen some use. However it’s also been well kept and is in fantastic condition, this guitar really has been loved. Really […]
A nice new Stratocaster. Nothing much wrong with it, but the owner just wanted the action lowering and setting up. Starting at the top; the string height over the nut (measured at the 1st fret) was fine. The set in the neck was a rather high (0.023″) so I’ll straighten that out a little. The action height […]
Jacksons have never been my style, I find them a little too extreme, but this one is nice. The main problem is the Floyd Rose is rather worn, in particular the screw threads have been stripped out There really isn’t much I can do with that but replace it. At some point the Guitar has also […]
Having sorted out the sheered off strap button screws etc. Next I removed all the old bits and pieces, pickguard with electrics before giving the body a good polish to remove all the old dirt and minor scratches. Ready to start building in the new parts. Click here to see the start of the job.
I was asked if I could fix a noisy Telecaster, I thought that was the idea! However on listening there was an excessive amount of hum. I though it would be less complicated as you can get to the wiring without taking the strings off. However once I got it open I couldn’t immediately find anything […]
Should be a simple job, a crackly Strat’. Always an annoying problem but sometimes difficult to locate. At first I couldn’t really see (or hear) anything wrong, but that’s not really the answer so I opened it up to see what’s inside. The strings are a little worn and there’s always the chance of snapping one, […]