Burns Marquee – Fret Dress and Setup

A lovely guitar, just not quite as good as you would hope… The nut slots have been widened out and then repaired, rather badly.  The only real way to fix that is to replace the nut. Some of the frets are a little un-even, so I’m going to dress them to get a common level. […]

Guitar Tone Improvement

  Want better tone from your guitar?  Even with good quality pickups you can loose signal through the tone circuits.  Set to 10 there is still some signal going through the variable resistor and capacitor. There is a solution, variable resistors that go to open circuit when at max, thereby disconnecting the tone circuit completely. This is a Stratocaster I upgraded recently.  These […]

Fender or Gibson which do you prefer?

Most people stand in one camp or the other, Gibson or Fender, but this one crosses divides. It just came in for a once over, service and setup.  A classic Fender? No, from the Gibson stable… Not a great deal wrong with it, just in need of a little TLC… The electrics were a little […]

Fender Jaguar – Full setup

Always had a soft spot for the Jaguar. I don’t think it’s ever really received the credit it’s deserved, always in she shadow of it’s big brother, the Stratocaster, pity really. There was nothing much wrong with this one, it just needed a little TLC and  tweek here and there on the setup….As always I […]

Broken Headstock

Ouch, that’s a nasty brake, but fixable…. It’s split in 2 places and some small splinters are missing.  I glued it in 2 stages to make sure  it went back together correctly..Stage 2, glue and clamp.The wood has gone back together well although the edges are a little sharp.  I used a little wood filler […]