Squire Stratocaster – Setup

A nice new guitar.  They can be good guitars but, sadly, they don’t seem to have the time to set them up properly in the factory.  They just need a little work to make the most of them. While I’m at it the owner wants all the protective plastic removing, not actually as easy as you […]

US Stratocaster – How low is your action!

I’m often asked for a low action, but this is probably the lowest I’ve ever seen! Actually someone’s had a go at it and the owner wants me to put it right.  I like a low action myself but this is un-playable.The tremolo is also sitting flat and locked in place… It didn’t really take a […]

Musicman Axis – re-fret

A slightly odd request, a re-fret just to change the feel of the guitar. The neck minus the old frets. Put a slight curve into the new fret-wire. and fit it the old slots. That leaves some very rough and sharp ends…. which need to be filled down evenly. After that each fret needs finishing […]

Hohner Rockwood Re-build, 4th update

With a new neck plate I was able to re-fit the neck.  At least it looks like a Guitar again. With the strings fitted I reset the neck set. with a tweek of the truss-rod. Reset the action height. and lastly the intonation. At long last, all back together. To see the project from the […]

Tremol-No

What a great idea.  A real easy way to lock your trem’ in place. It just replaces the claw for the trem’ springs and has a rod that locks into the trem’ block. The thumb wheels can either lock the trem’ or be loosened off to allow the trem’ to move as normal.