Anyone struggle to tune your guitar? Do you use non standard tunings? Need to change them between songs in a hurry? In that case you’ll love the Tronical Auto Tuners. If you don’t, and you find it easy enough to tune your guitar and it stays in tune then you’ll probably think they’re a pain […]
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Jay Turser – Fret dress and bone nut
Got handed this one with a “What can you do with this”? Mainly it’s just missing a nut and one of the bridge pins. The frets are a little worn as well so I’m going to give them a dress as well. It’s seen a lot of action around those open chords.. Once they’re level, […]
Gibson ES335 – Setup
I do like the different, and this one really is that! a touch of 1970’s Glam Rock I think… The first problem is the bridge, most of the saddle screws are rusted solid and one’s missing. Not difficult, just time consuming. Take each screw out and clean it with a wire brush on a dremel, […]
Gibson Les-Paul Custom – Pickup Ring replacement
You’d have thought this job would be easy, but if you really want it done properly there’s a little more to it. One of the pickup rings took a knock and broke so needs to be replaced. The trouble is the classic Gibson rings have a flat bottom and aren’t flexible enough to bend around the […]
Squire Start’ – Custom Pickups
Here’s a great way to improve our guitar. Rather than trade it in for an upgrade how about changing the pickups? These should sound good. About the only bits that I’m going to keep are the volume pot and the pickup switch. That’s the new wiring. I’ve added push/push pots on each of the tone […]
A Grand Day Out
Had a bit of a busy weekend, culminating with a grand day out in Birmingham, at the Guitar Show. Some fantastic bargains to be had. I was looking for a small, portable, practice amp. Something simple with valves! I’m fed up with overly complicated amps with far too many effects. What I found isn’t quite that, […]
Epiphone Les-Paul – Custom re-wire, bone nut and setup
Here’s a very attractive guitar, lovely piece of wood. Had a couple of requests with this one, both easy to sort but one a little more unusual. The owner would prefer just one set of volume and tone controls, rather than a set for each pickup? It’s got standard wiring so it’s an easy enough job, just re-arranging […]
Ovation – Electric Pickup
These are nice. The owner wanted an electric pickup fitted. The usual place for the jack socket is to combine it with the strap button. Unfortunately I don’t think if I extend the hole it’ll be strong enough. So I’m going to use a standard jack socket mounted elsewhere. The pickup is actually a little […]
Santa Cruz – Setup and action lower
What a beautiful Guitar. Really nicely made, but with a rather high action. The neck set was about right, so nothing I can do there. The frets are nice and even so I can afford to bring the action down by quite a bit. Up at the 12th fret the action is much too high… […]
Freshman – Setup and lower action
This is another nice one. I’m not a great fan of Freshman but this one feels right. Nothing much wrong, just a little high in the action. The neck had just a little too much set in it for my liking. so flatten it out just a little. I did that with the old strings […]