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 […]
This really is a beautiful guitar. It’s been through my workshop before but it’s not behaving as well as you would like with a guitar at this level. It doesn’t seem to want to hold it’s tuning very well. I think it’s the usual problem but the owner assures me that he never uses the […]
Well I said I’d live with the Tronical Autotuners for a while and see how I get on with them. They seem to work OK, they can tune the guitar, not as accurately as my Peterson rack tuner mind you, but close enough for Rock N’ Roll! It seems to hold it’s tune, perhaps helped […]
How do you deal with sharp fret ends? There are a couple of reasons why your fret ends can seem sharp making the guitar hard and painful to play. The guitar was just badly made in the first place… The wood has dried out and shrunk a little, so leaving the fret ends poking out. […]