Hohner Rockwood Re-build

The next big job.  I think this one is going to take a while!!!  One of those projects where money is in shorter supply than time so it’s going to have to be fitted in around higher priority jobs… Starting with a box of bits… Most of it is there, perhaps a few screws etc.  […]

Gibson Les Paul Finished

With the cleanup finished all that’s needed now is to put it all back together and set it up.  First then the curve in the neck. It had a little too much of a bend so I tightened the truss rod a little… I had a look at the action at the 1st fret, it’s […]

Gibson Les Paul, Fret-dress and general tidy up

Just a little bit of housekeeping, tidying up a rather “road worn” Gibson Les Paul.  It’s been well used and someone has made a few modifications.  It’s been modified with some very fancy “auto tuning” machine heads but the owner want’s them replacing with standard ones.  Keep an eye open as they will be re-appearing […]

Jazzmaster Build – 4th update

While I’m waiting for the last couple of parts I fitted the strap buttons.  Carefully marking the centreline… I thought that was all I could do today until the postman arrived.  Again I marked out the centreline and screw holes, making sure everything is square.  Drill the holes……. and screw it in place… Just the pickups […]

Jazzmaster Build – 2nd update

I had a bit of a think overnight and decided to attack the problem from the other end.  Since it’s a much better quality body than neck I think it more appropriate to adjust the neck to fit the body rather than the other way.  It would be more likely that someone would want to […]

Jazzmaster Build – 1st Update

Started on the Jazzmaster today.  My first intention was to have a look at how the neck fitted, but it’s going to need quite a bit of work. Not fitting very well, or at all actually.  I don’t want to force it or I’ll damage the body and neck. To make things a little more […]

Jazzmaster Build

Just looking ahead to this week I’ve got a fairly major project lined up, a Jazzmaster to be built from scratch… I think I’ve got most of the parts.  I’m still missing the trem’/tail but that’s on back order.  Haven’t got any pickups either yet, the customer is fairly sure what he wants but there are […]

Telecaster Custom – Rebuild final update

The final stage, fit the strings and a setup, should be easy, not with this one…. more problems…. Starting with the neck set, a little large…. so a quick turn of the truss-rod.  So far so good. The action at the first fret is a little high…….. so I cut each nut slot down a […]

Telecaster Custom – Rebuild 6th update

Well I finally think I’ve got it worried.  I did hope to have it finished this afternoon but then, what was I thinking, anything on this guitar was always going to take twice as long as planned! Next then the neck picukup cavity.  Needs to ba at least this much bigger… With a small router […]

Telecaster Custom – Rebuild 5th update

A few more parts arrived today, the screws for the pickups. Guess what? even that didn’t work out as easily as I would have liked.  Should have expected that I suppose, I think this guitar hates me.  Well you know what, I’m starting to hate it back!!!  One of the screw holes is very worn so the […]