I’ve rather fancied one of these myself. One of these years. This one just has a few problems though, the biggest one being not staying in tune. Most tuning stability problems come from the nut, bending a string pulls it through a little but when you let go it doesn’t go back fully, leaving the string […]
Here’s a beautiful little guitar, just needs a little attention and an upgrade or 2 along the way… The frets are rather worn for a starter…. and it came with a nice pair of Gibson pickups…… To start with, out with the old, the old nut… off with the volume and tone knobs, so I […]
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, […]
A nice little guitar. The trouble is they’re built to a budged, seemingly without much care. However I’m going to make this one play really nicely. While I’m at it I’ve been asked to fit a TUSQ nut. Not something I like to be honest, but I’ll stick it on and see how it works. […]
I’m often asked what’s the best way to improve an average guitar? The first thing to consider is do you want to improve the sound it makes or the way it feels to play? The first is easy, strip out the pickups and fit something special, Bare Knuckle are probably my favourite, and their choices are […]
It’s a sad reflection that some guitars are just not as good as they really should be. This is a lovely alternative to it’s Gibson cousin but still should be better. A little bit of attention to detail though and it’ll be better than the Gibson… The action at the 1st fret is a little […]
A good-looking guitar. Nothing much wrong with it, just needs a few slight adjustments to get the setup right. Before doing anything else I took the old strings off and gave the fret-board a good clean. With the new strings in place I could properly assess the action. Unusually the fret-board was a little flat, nine […]
Been a quiet week, with nothing of real interest. A couple of fret-dressings. The last one a rather nice Epiphone Les Paul The fret-dress was a routine job, as was the setup.. The neck, unusually had very little set in it… The owner wants a fairly low action but I think it needs a little more […]
Having got the pickups done it’s time to look at the top end. Fit a new set of machine heads. It should be easy apart from the fact none of the screw holes line up! Firstly then, plug all the old holes. Once the glue is dry trim the wooden pegs and fit the new […]
This is a well loved guitar, it’s been well looked after but is starting to show some signs of wear now. The frets at the top of the neck in particular. A fret-dress will even everything up nicely. Before I can level the frets I need to make sure the fretboard is level…. so a […]