A nice US built Strat’ but the owner wanted it converted back to the standard three single coils. The most obvious thing is the pick-guard, I’ll have to get a new one of those or it will look naff. Rather than re-use the old switch and volume pot I think it better to replace them with new […]
Tag: Fender Guitar
Fender Telecaster setup
A quiet day in the workshop today, a couple of odd bits and bobs. Did have a rather nice Tele’ in need of a setup. Nothing really wrong with it, just needs a tweek here and there. The neck set was a little high, so about a 1/4 turn on the truss-rod. The action at […]
Bare Knuckle Pickups
Had a mexican Strat’ on the bench today for a pickup transplant. I think the best way to improve the sound of any Strat’ is to re-fit it with Bare Knuckle pickups. Their range is great and they all sound fantastic..
Fender Sonoran fret dress and setup
These are great little guitars. This one is brand new but the owner want’s to see what I can do to improve it. Since there isn’t really anything wrong with it I guess the devil is in the detail as they say. The neck has slightly too much set in it so that’ll be easy […]
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 […]
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 […]
US Stratocaster Setup
Had a rather nice US Stratocaster on the bench today. Nothing major, just a clean and setup. I rather like the body, nice paint finish over a very nice piece of wood…. The fretboard was a little grubby… A quick rub down with some steel wool will remove that and polish the frets at the same time. […]
Fender Flame
Wow, what a fantastic guitar! I guess I’m lucky, just now and then someone brings in something really nice…. All it needed was a new jack socket so it was an easy fix..