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Category: Semi-acoustic

Epiphone Casino – Bridge Upgrade

15th September 2025 George

A great guitar that’s been through the workshop once or twice before for a couple of other upgrades. I do love a semi-acoustic with a Bigsby, but they sadly they aren’t the most stable of tremolo units.  A roller bridge can help quite a bit though. The original bridge had a nasty habit of lowering […]

 Electric, Electric Guitar, Guitars, Improvements, Semi-acoustic, Uncategorised

Gretsch – Full setup

11th December 201930th December 2020 George

Those that know me will know I love a semi-acoustic, particularly Gretsch, and these ones coming out now are fantastic.  Sadly the setup on this one wasn’t great. While the strings are off is the easiest time to oil the fretboard. The heads were also just a little loose as well.   So with a […]

 Electric Guitar, Semi-acoustic, Uncategorised

Epiphone Emperor – 4th and final Update

12th May 2013 George

Having got all the electrics fitted and working its now time to fit the new tailpiece and strings.  Since I tidied up the top of the bridge earlier I also needed to re-cut some string slots in it.  Firstly I fitted the 2 “E” strings to correctly place the floating bridge… Using the appropriate file I cut slots in the […]

 General, Improvements, Semi-acoustic
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