A rather nice Stratocaster. The owner just didn’t like the neck profile so found a replacement. Swapping a neck theoretically should be easy, it’s only 4 screws after all. If you get a genuine Fender neck, as this is then yes, it will fit straight in, but you will need to re-adjust the setup. Likewise […]
What a beautiful piece of wood! A lovely American Strat’, just needs a setup. The neck was rather flat. so ease off on the truss-rod a little. Adjusting the neck relief will throw the action at the 12th fret, so that needs to be reset. Starting with the outside “E” strings. and then the others, […]
Here’s a rather nice Stratocaster, just needed a bit of a tweek on the setup. It’s got some nice pickups as well. Although for an American made Strat they got some basics wrong, the neck is on a little wonky. Since the neck will come off to adjust the truss-rod I’ll sort that out when […]
When it’s on of these…. Perhaps not the worst guitar I’ve had on the bench but you can tell from all the details it’s not genuine.. At first glance it looks OK. Just take a look at the jack plate, and the lack of quality in the finish. The screws on the scratchplate haven’t been […]
This really is a beautiful guitar. It’s been through my workshop before but it’s not behaving as well as you would like with a guitar at this level. It doesn’t seem to want to hold it’s tuning very well. I think it’s the usual problem but the owner assures me that he never uses the […]
What a fantastic night out, watching The Story of the Guitar Heroes in the New Theatre Royal Lincoln. I’ve been struggling for more years than I care to remember to master the Guitar, I could practice for 25 hours a day for the next 200 years and I’ll still not achieve these levels! The playing […]
What a lovely guitar, just needs a little work. The high “E” string keeps popping out of the slot for one. A new nut will sort that out. The pickups aren’t quite up to spec so I’m going to send them off to Radioshop Pickups and have them re-wound. While it’s apart I’m going to […]
So here’s a thing, this is a left handed guitar but the owner wants it strung as per a right handed guitar, but he doesn’t want a right handed guitar as he plays it left handed. A little odd, but relatively simple… First of all then, out with the old nut. Since neck had it’s […]
Here’s a thing, Don’t really use your tremolo. A simple answer is to just screw the trem’ claw sprigs in so that the tremolo sits flat on the body. If you want to increase the sustain then you need to add a small block of wood between the tremolo block and the body. The block […]
What a lovely guitar, just needs a little work. The high “E” string keeps popping out of the slot for one. A new nut will sort that out. The pickups aren’t quite up to spec so I’m going to send them off to Radioshop Pickups and have them re-wound. While it’s apart I’m going to […]