The Story of the Guitar Heroes

What a fantastic night out, watching The Story of the Guitar Heroes in the New Theatre Royal Lincoln.  I’ve been struggling for more years than I care to remember to master the Guitar, I could practice for 25 hours a day for the next 200 years and I’ll still not achieve these levels! The playing […]

Tanglewood – Lowered action

What if the action on your acoustic is a little high?  It can be an easy fix. This one is a little high so I’m going to give it a general setup. Starting with the neck relief.  I always start that with the old strings, otherwise I’ll have to take the new ones off and […]

Ovation – Electric Pickup

These are nice.  The owner wanted an electric pickup fitted. The usual place for the jack socket is to combine it with the strap button.  Unfortunately I don’t think if I extend the hole it’ll be strong enough. So I’m going to use a standard jack socket mounted elsewhere. The pickup is actually a little […]

Fender Acoustic – Setup with lower action

There’s nothing worse than trying to learn the guitar on one that’s really hard to play!  The action on this one was very high which is only ever going to give you sore fingers! Measuring up at the 12th fret the action’s way too high… The frets are a little uneven so I’ll never be […]

Taylor GS Mini – Electric pickup

Great guitars these, I do like Taylors.  But what do you do if you want to plug it in?  You could chop it in for a new one, or convert it and add an after market pickup.  There are some quite good kits out there.  This one’s quite a simple it to fit, the built in […]

Washburn – Cleanup and Re-String

Now and again I get a really simple job, for example just changing a set of strings.  While the strings were off it also needed a good clean, you can see the build-up on the fretboard.  It can be quite tough, but I find the best thing to shift it is fine steel wool. With the dirt removed […]

Martin – Intonation problem

Nice guitars these, usually much better than this, but the Intonation was rather badly out in this one. There didn’t seem to be any real reason for it so I started off with a new, compensated, bone saddle…It sorted out most of the problem, but not quite the Bass “E”.  Next I widened out the […]