Just a little bit of housekeeping, tidying up a rather “road worn” Gibson Les Paul. It’s been well used and someone has made a few modifications. It’s been modified with some very fancy “auto tuning” machine heads but the owner want’s them replacing with standard ones. Keep an eye open as they will be re-appearing […]
Month: February 2014
Bare Knuckle Pickups
Had a mexican Strat’ on the bench today for a pickup transplant. I think the best way to improve the sound of any Strat’ is to re-fit it with Bare Knuckle pickups. Their range is great and they all sound fantastic..
Fender Sonoran fret dress and setup
These are great little guitars. This one is brand new but the owner want’s to see what I can do to improve it. Since there isn’t really anything wrong with it I guess the devil is in the detail as they say. The neck has slightly too much set in it so that’ll be easy […]
Music Room
A quiet day in the Musicroom Lincoln, Nothing much of interest, the only thing out of the ordinary was a Banjo in need of a string change..
Jazzmaster Build – 4th update
While I’m waiting for the last couple of parts I fitted the strap buttons. Carefully marking the centreline… I thought that was all I could do today until the postman arrived. Again I marked out the centreline and screw holes, making sure everything is square. Drill the holes……. and screw it in place… Just the pickups […]
Jazzmaster Build – 3rd update
I didn’t manage as much as I wanted today, it’s been another of those days. However I did finish the wiring, apart from the pickups which are on order…. It fits in place anyway. While I’m waiting for the last of the parts (tremolo tail and pickups) there isn’t a great deal more I can […]
Jazzmaster Build – 2nd update
I had a bit of a think overnight and decided to attack the problem from the other end. Since it’s a much better quality body than neck I think it more appropriate to adjust the neck to fit the body rather than the other way. It would be more likely that someone would want to […]
Jazzmaster Build – 1st Update
Started on the Jazzmaster today. My first intention was to have a look at how the neck fitted, but it’s going to need quite a bit of work. Not fitting very well, or at all actually. I don’t want to force it or I’ll damage the body and neck. To make things a little more […]
Jazzmaster Build
Just looking ahead to this week I’ve got a fairly major project lined up, a Jazzmaster to be built from scratch… I think I’ve got most of the parts. I’m still missing the trem’/tail but that’s on back order. Haven’t got any pickups either yet, the customer is fairly sure what he wants but there are […]
Custom Built Spanish 4th update
After a busy week I had a fairly quiet weekend. I had a little bit of a rub around the Spanish Acoustic I’ve been building for the last 18 months or so. It occurred to me that I hadn’t published any pictures for ages and its come on a long way. The neck was just […]