An interesting little one, finishing of a project. Most of the hard work has been done, and they’ve made a good job of it, but I’ve been asked for a little help with the last little bit to get it playing properly…
The first thing, the wiring. A couple of dry joints just needed sorting out…..
With the electrics working there’s still a problem with the neck pickup….
It’s too high, higher than the level the strings will be at if played at the last fret….
Looking in the cavity there isn’t enough space for the bottom of the pole pieces…
I cut a small groove with the faithful Dremel..
That should be enough…
Looking closely at the neck, all is not quite 100%. Not the worst I’ve come across, and would be OK if you don’t mind an average guitar. Some of the frets are just a little high so I’m going to dress them to even the lot out. 
The neck levelled, taped up and ready to file.
With the tops even, I now need to re-crown the flat tops…
and re-polish to bring back the shine…..
It’s also minus a nut so I’m going to make a bone one from a large block.
The head falls away so the bottom needs a bit of an angle to make sure the nut sits snugly against the end of the fretboard, about a 5 degree angle..
That’s about right…
Next cut down the extra length..
and round off the top….
Using the string spacing rule mark up the string slots..
With the nut fitted I next need to sort out the setup. I’ll come back to the nut later but I need get the rest of the action right first.
The neck set was about right,
so just a very small tweek on the truss-rod.
Then the action at the 12th fret. A little high…
so drop the bridge down a little..
An interesting bridge, not come across one of these before, very well built.
With the rest of the action set I can get back to the nut and cut the slots down to the right depth…
The top of the nut’s a little high now so I’m going to grind the top down and put a bit of a back-slope on the top.
With it fully shaped a small blob of glue and clamp it into place..
Now that the action is fully set I just need to check the intonation.. 
Last thing, the pickup heights. Give them a rough starting point but pluging it in and playing it is the only real way to check the outputs.
And there we have it, ready to Rock ‘N’ Roll….
“Picked her up this morning, and it’s everything I Wanted it to be. I have had several new and a few old Gibsons ( in fact one of them will be heading to George at some point) and none of them play like this beauty. Because she is a custom build, she hadn’t even seen strings before George got hold of her. What a fantastic job, every fret is silky smooth, no sharp edges and the action is perfect not a buzz or dead note anywhere.
It’s funny as you talk to George because you get the feeling that he forms a proper relationship with every instrument that enters his shop, I mean he really Susses out every little foible and niggle, and properly sorts it.
I will definitely be using George again in the future, and will recommend him to anyone and everyone. A proper craftsman and a true gentleman.”