Odd one this, I’ve been asked to fit a new neck to an old guitar but never fit a new body to an old neck? I was a little sceptical at first, it was a nice guitar to start with, and I wasn’t very sure about that pink? Some of the hardware is going to be […]
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 […]
I’ve just been given a mixed bag of bits, some old some new, to put together…. I think there’s a very nice Telecaster in there somewhere! But where to start?How about at the top, the machine heads. First the guides.. they’re rather tight so rather than hammer them in and risk damaging them I pressed them […]
Jack sockets quite often present problems, they wear out and the contacts become loose, this one was proving to be tricky on several counts…. It keeps falling out as the locking plate’s rather bent and twisted out of shape and isn’t locking into the wood. There’s also a third wire, I don’t know what that’s […]
Re-shaping the frets isn’t difficult, it just takes time and patience along with the right file.. Making sure only to file the edges of the fret and round it off without touching the top. Half way through fret No.1… Some time later, all done…. The file leaves a very rough finish so each fret now needs re-polishing […]