Guitar not playing properly?  How about a quick service and setup, pretty well anything can be sorted out.  This one’s lust got a few minor problems.

The pickups don’t seem to be staying in place?  An odd one that, I don’t think I’ve come across that before?

The volume and tone controls are a little bit “crackly” so a little switch cleaner should sort that out.

The volume pot’ is also a little loose so take the knob off…

and tighten up the locking nut.

With the electrics sorted and while the strings were off I gave the fretboard a good clean…..

and oil….

Back to those pickups.  The threads are a little loose but aren’t stripped so I’m still not sure why they should slip down?

One of the springs was a little out of place so I put that right at least.

Back at the top of the neck the action at the 1st fret was very high.  Since it’s got a locking nut the only way to reduce that is to take off some wood underneath it.

With a new set of strings the 1st the first thing that became obvious was the Tremolo action, just a little high….

so tighten up the screws on the trem’ claw.

The neck relief was a little high…

So I tightened up the truss-rod in order to flatten it out a little.

The action up at the 12th fret was also rather high….

so I dropped the trem’ down a little.

Since I sorted out the action up at the 1st fret all I need to do now is tweek the intonation and reset the pickup heights.

Once I checked the outputs I dropped in a small drop of superglue under each screw head.  That should stop them moving and keep the pickup heights steady.

And there it is ready to rock again.

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