These were a nice touch I thought, a nice upgrade. There’s nothing wrong with the old heads, but the owner wanted Black ones The new ones are slightly different, and need new holes for the screws. Making sure they’re all lined up squarely. There we go. Match the guitar quite nicely. To see what else […]
Tag: Guitar Service
PRS – Rebuild
A bit of a mess this one, but with a bit of effort I think it should be recoverable.. The first fault is rather obvious, it’s just between the nut and the machine heads! To glue it back together was quite simple, the break was along the grain. The trouble is there were some large pieces […]
Telecaster rebuild
Wow, an interesting mix of old and new. The neck is genuine Fender, but I don’t know about the rest. The body’s probably the heaviest Telecaster I’ve ever come across. I’m going to fit the neck to a new body with a mix of old and new hardware. The first stage is to sort out the […]
Gibson SG – Fret Dress and setup
I rather fancy one of these, This one needed quite a bit of sorting out though… The string break angle over the bridge looks a little extreme to me, but I can sort that out when I get it back together and complete the setup. The frets have got some worn spots…. and are a […]
Unknown Bass – re-wire
I’ve never been sure exactly what this is, it’s a bitsa’ (bitsa’ this and bitsa’ that) It’s not been working properly lately, the electrics have been playing up so I’m going to replace the pots’ and possibly the switch. just a direct swap, one for one. While I’m at it, I drilled out and plugged […]
Partial Re-Fret
This one’s seen some action, mostly around the open chords. The first 3 frets are really worn but the rest are probably OK. If I file them all down to the level of the grooves up there, then there’ll be practically nothing left! Off with the strings and nut and out with the first 3 […]
Classical Guitar – Reduced Action Height
Classical, nylon strung guitars tend to have a higher action but this one was very high. The first thing was to flatten out the neck a little… That helped a little. but not enough. So I took out the bridge saddle and ground it down a little. finishing it off by hand to make sure […]
Schecter – Fret Dress and setup
Not quite my cup of tea, and it’s got a bit of a problem, a couple of low spots. High spots are easy, to lower two high frets down to the rest is quite easy but I’ve got to bring the other 22 down to the low 2, if you follow my drift! With the […]
Travelling with a guitar
I’ve just been asked about a Bass that they could take away with them. It reminded me of a video I saw a while ago. It’s got to be worth another view, just click on the link below…. United Breaks Guitars If you do suffer such a problem just give me a call or visit […]
Washburn – Fret dress and setup
A rather lovely guitar, in need of a little bit of work to get it playing properly though. A lovely piece of wood. Some of the frets are rather uneven. Big fat frets with some very low points, so it’s going to be quite a bit of work. There’s quite a bit of wear and tear […]