A nice looking guitar, sadly the build quality has rather let it down. The first problem was a dodgy volume control, a little intermittent. I was going to replace it but once I got the wiring out I found a dry joint. I would say it was an easier fix but the biggest problem is […]
Tag: Electric Guitar
Problematic Gretsch
Had a bit of a problem with a Gretsch this week. The owner wanted a setup to cure some fret buzzing, sadly it needed a bit more than just that. The frets were quite uneven so they needed dressing to get the most out of it. Rather uneven frets….Grinding the frets to level the tops…Once […]
Dean Dime – Service and setup
One for the Metal fans, not quite my cup of tea but still deserves the same time and attention as anything else. Nothing badly wrong with it mind you, just needs a nip here and a tuck there… The action at the 1st fret was a little high to start with. Trouble is, with a […]
Custom Build – Finished at last.
At long last. I got the neck back for that snake-skin guitar. My wood carver has had problems and hasn’t been able to do the snake head yet; I’m still hopeful but thought I’d get the guitar finished while I wait. The rest is mostly done, although I didn’t clean and oil all the screws […]
#Telecaster – Setup and service
A little unusual this one, not the standard Tele’. It had few minor problems, nothing too difficult… The first one was a couple of stripped out screws. It’s easy to do, in this case it’s the screws from the control plate. I drilled out the old hole and glued in a couple of wooden plugs… Once […]
Epiphone ES339 – Fret dress and setup
A great looking guitar, sadly not playing as well as it should. In fact they made a bit of a mess of this one, the frets are all over the place..The 11th was the highest but they were all very uneven. You’d like to think a new guitar would be better than that but, sadly, […]
Squire Jagmaster – New Pickup
A simple way to improve the way your guitar sounds, new pickups… The wiring is actually very simple..What’s not so simple is setting them up afterwards, it’s a bit of an art to get the sounds balanced. With this one I found the two pickups worked better with the neck pickup flipped round.Looking and sounding […]
Richie Sambora Stratocaster
Nice guitar but It’s got some problems. Probably been there from new, but now I’m going to put it all right… The first problem is the Intonation. No matter what the owner did it just didn’t sound right all the way up and down the neck.Looking at the nut the slot for the bass E […]
Burns Cobra – Full Setup
What a lovely guitar, just needs a bit of a tweek here and there to bring get it playing to it’s best. Before the setup it just needs a bit of a clean, nothing too bad but while the strings are off, might as well.And a spot of lemon oil to rejuvenate the wood. On with […]
Jackson Custom-build
A recovery of something just about fit for the bin. A bit of a mess really, but I thought I’d see what I could come up with…. Before: in need of quite a lot of work… The fretboard was coming off so I helped it along it’s way. Next I drilled out the old fret […]