While I’m waiting for the last couple of parts I fitted the strap buttons. Carefully marking the centreline… I thought that was all I could do today until the postman arrived. Again I marked out the centreline and screw holes, making sure everything is square. Drill the holes……. and screw it in place… Just the pickups […]
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Jazzmaster Build – 3rd update
I didn’t manage as much as I wanted today, it’s been another of those days. However I did finish the wiring, apart from the pickups which are on order…. It fits in place anyway. While I’m waiting for the last of the parts (tremolo tail and pickups) there isn’t a great deal more I can […]
Jazzmaster Build – 2nd update
I had a bit of a think overnight and decided to attack the problem from the other end. Since it’s a much better quality body than neck I think it more appropriate to adjust the neck to fit the body rather than the other way. It would be more likely that someone would want to […]
Jazzmaster Build – 1st Update
Started on the Jazzmaster today. My first intention was to have a look at how the neck fitted, but it’s going to need quite a bit of work. Not fitting very well, or at all actually. I don’t want to force it or I’ll damage the body and neck. To make things a little more […]
Jazzmaster Build
Just looking ahead to this week I’ve got a fairly major project lined up, a Jazzmaster to be built from scratch… I think I’ve got most of the parts. I’m still missing the trem’/tail but that’s on back order. Haven’t got any pickups either yet, the customer is fairly sure what he wants but there are […]
Custom Built Spanish 4th update
After a busy week I had a fairly quiet weekend. I had a little bit of a rub around the Spanish Acoustic I’ve been building for the last 18 months or so. It occurred to me that I hadn’t published any pictures for ages and its come on a long way. The neck was just […]
Bright new strings!
I had a look at a Bass today with a request for a setup. There wasn’t really anything that needed doing so I just gave it a clean and a new set of strings. The guy brought them himself and wow, what a set of strings…. These are going to look great under a UV light! I’d rather […]
Telecaster Custom – Rebuild final update
The final stage, fit the strings and a setup, should be easy, not with this one…. more problems…. Starting with the neck set, a little large…. so a quick turn of the truss-rod. So far so good. The action at the first fret is a little high…….. so I cut each nut slot down a […]
Telecaster Custom – Rebuild 6th update
Well I finally think I’ve got it worried. I did hope to have it finished this afternoon but then, what was I thinking, anything on this guitar was always going to take twice as long as planned! Next then the neck picukup cavity. Needs to ba at least this much bigger… With a small router […]
Telecaster Custom – Rebuild 5th update
A few more parts arrived today, the screws for the pickups. Guess what? even that didn’t work out as easily as I would have liked. Should have expected that I suppose, I think this guitar hates me. Well you know what, I’m starting to hate it back!!! One of the screw holes is very worn so the […]