Swapping over a fully loaded pickguard should be a fairly easy job. Unfortunately that’s not always the case, particularly with a less popular make and cheaper parts. I had my fingers crossed but from the start it proved to be far more complicated, couldn’t even get the old pickguard off with the neck in place. […]
I do love a semi-acoustic, and I love a Bigsby. So why not put one on a 335? While I’m at it I’m going to change the bridge for one with rollers saddles since Bigsby tremolos are notorious for not staying in tune. I’m also going to fit a String Butler as the headstock shape […]
Here’s a rather nice Stratocaster, just needed a bit of a tweek on the setup. It’s got some nice pickups as well. Although for an American made Strat they got some basics wrong, the neck is on a little wonky. Since the neck will come off to adjust the truss-rod I’ll sort that out when […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
When it’s on of these…. Perhaps not the worst guitar I’ve had on the bench but you can tell from all the details it’s not genuine.. At first glance it looks OK. Just take a look at the jack plate, and the lack of quality in the finish. The screws on the scratchplate haven’t been […]
I’ve got one of these on my wish list, one day! In the meantime I’ve got this one on the bench to upgrade. It’s had the pickups swapped once already, unfortunately that caused a few problems in itself. One of the problems was with the Push-Push pot’ used to coil tap the neck […]
I’ve never seen a Les Paul like this one… Rather unusual, It had a coupe of electrical gremlins so I replaced the jack socket with a nice new one… Gave the volume and tone pots’ a clean Also cleaned the contacts on the pickup switch.. While it was on the bench it also had a […]