Merry Christmas to all out there in Guitar-land….. At least I managed to clear the bench for Christmas, so I don’t have any customers banging on my door, needing their instruments back for the holiday. Now I can put my feet up for a rest. Speaking of Christmas though. If any of you should get anything […]
Category: General
5 String Telecaster
The first thing I did was to have a good look at the Guitar. Since the owner wants a low action the question is how accurately are the frets set, any high frets will cause buzzing when the action is lowered. I’m pleased to say it’s pretty good so I won’t need any work […]
Maverick, fret-dress and setup
I don’t think I’ve had one of these on the bench before. Not quite my cup of tea but different. It’s obviously had a lot of use and needs a spot of TLC. The frets are a little worn and the fret-board has several years worth of goop on it. There were also a couple of high […]
Encore Acoustic setup
As a cheaper guitars go these Encores are not bad. This one just needs a bit of a clean and setup. The action at the first fret is OK…. but the set in the neck is huge, you could drive a coach and horses under there!! The action at the 12th fret is also huge. […]
More George Martin than George Harrison!
Been working on an interesting project with some friends. My web-guru Clive, from Octagon technology http://www.octagontech.com/ and Lizzie, from Develop and Promote http://www.developandpromote.co.uk/ asked me if I could help them record a pod-cast. It’s a very long time since I was in a recording studio but I’ve got some gear so offered my services. Like most people I […]
Very Green Ibanez!
Quite a long job this one, been on the go for a couple of weeks. The customer wanted a really nice setup, which really ment a fret dress before he had the body re-painted. I though it was a bit daft to do the setup twice so ended up pulling it apart and doing the […]
Framus
Now and again something really nice comes across the bench. This week it was an old Framus. There was nothing really wrong with it, it just needed a good clean and polish. I don’t know when it was built but I could picture it in the hands of a very young John Lennon….
Fretless Hofner
Well it was fretless when I started! Someone elses project, already started, so all I’ve been handed is a body and neck. The first stage of the project is to fit new frets. So, step one, make sure the fret-board is nice and level. There are a couple of deep points but it’s mostly in good condition. […]
Custom Build 4th update
Things have been a little quiet in the workshop this week, a couple of minor jobs but nothing worth putting on the blog. I did find some time to finally wire in the custom job I’ve been working on in my spare time, I just haven’t had much spare time lately. I’m not so keen […]
More Smoke Damage
This one is the twin to the one I did yesterday. Was in the same place as the Bass so has the same sooty smoke damage. Did exactly the same, pulled everything off and stripped it down as far as I could to clean and polish everything before putting it all back together. As before […]