Ibanez RG – Service and Setup

Not quite my cup of tea, but a very nice piece of wood… It’s got a common problem, not returning to pitch when you use the trem’.  These Floyd Rose Tremolo units can be a little temperamental. It’s also missing a spring, it’s dropped out somewhere apparently. I pretty sure I know where it’ll be….. […]

Kremer – Full Service and Setup

Guitar not playing properly?  How about a quick service and setup, pretty well anything can be sorted out.  This one’s lust got a few minor problems. The pickups don’t seem to be staying in place?  An odd one that, I don’t think I’ve come across that before? The volume and tone controls are a little […]

Ibanez RG – Fret Dress and Setup

I generally rate Ibanez guitars, but this one’s not so good.  It’s got some very uneven frets. The only way to get it playing properly is to dress them all, to get a common level.  It’s always easiest to do that with the neck off the guitar. There we go, taped up and levelled. As […]

Sambora – Fret dress and setup

Not something I’ve come across before, but what a great looking guitar! I just needs a little work so that it plays as good as it looks. The biggest problem are the frets, they’re quite uneven so need levelling before it will play well.  First job then, neck off and levelled. Tape up the fretboard to protect it, and […]

Washburn Setup

A fairly simple job, the setup wasn’t that far out.  Having said that setting up a Floyd Rose is never easy! Before the setup I’ve also added a treble bleed circuit.  It stops the quality of the tone from fading and going “woolly” as you back off the volume. Before I start the setup I also gave […]

Jackson – setup

One for the metal fans… Just needs a little work here and there.  The Floyd Rose isn’t moving quite as easily as it should to start with……The edges were a little rough so I tidied them up a little, hopefully that should do it. With that back together all it needed was a tweek here […]

Maverick, fret-dress and setup

I don’t think I’ve had one of these on the bench before.  Not quite my cup of tea but different.  It’s obviously had a lot of use and needs a spot of TLC.  The frets are a little worn and the fret-board has several years worth of goop on it.  There were also a couple of high […]