Tag: Electric Guitar

Epiphone Machine Heads

George

These are very reasonable alternatives to their more expensive Gibson cousins. Someone’s fitted some really cheap machine heads though, so it needs tidying up and some new heads fitting. The old ones…With them all off it looks like it’s had a dose of woodworm!Before fitting the new heads I drilled out some of the old […]

Gretsch Black Falcon – Fret Dress and Setup

George

Wow, another big bodied Semi-Acoustic to play with!  This one needs a lot more work to get it playing properly mind you. Some of the frets are very uneven so they’ll need levelling if it’s ever going to play nicely. Before removing the strings it’s always a good idea to mark exactly where the floating […]

Classic Vibe Stratocaster – Setup

George

What a lovely Strat’, I never really used to like this colour, but it’s growing on me.  There’s nothing much wrong with it mind you, just needs a bit of a setup. The first problem however was getting the old strings off…  Why the plate on the back was on the wrong I’ve no idea?  […]

Epiphone Setup

George

What a lovely Guitar, just in need of a tweek here and there to get it playing as it should. The frets were good and even so they didn’t need any work for once. Since it’s got a floating bridge I put some low adhesive tape on the body before removing the strings.  That way […]

Ibanez – Pickup swap and new nut

George

A fairly simple job, swap the pickups for a pair of “Bare Knuckles” and, while I’m at it, put in a Bone nut. First of all I need to take out all the old wiring.  The old pickup was coil tapped but the customer doesn’t want to bother with the new one so I need to […]