A fairly simple repair although setting up some guitars is a little more difficult… The bottom of the nut blank didn’t quite fit the slot. It’s a 7½” radius rather than the 10″ of the fretboard. While the strings are off it’s always worth giving the fretboard a good clean and oil. Here is the […]
Tag: Fender
Fender Stratocaster, pickup switch
I do love these, they look just fantastic. This one just has a slight problem with the pickup switch. A slightly dry contact somewhere leading to an intermittent contact. Switch cleaner can sometimes do the trick but ultimately the only guaranteed way is to replace it… The new one in place… That should do the […]
US Fender Stratocaster HSS to SSS conversion
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 […]
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 – 3rd update
I didn’t manage as much as I wanted today, it’s been another of those days. However I did finish the wiring, apart from the pickups which are on order…. It fits in place anyway. While I’m waiting for the last of the parts (tremolo tail and pickups) there isn’t a great deal more I can […]
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
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 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 […]