At long last. I got the neck back for that snake-skin guitar. My wood carver has had problems and hasn’t been able to do the snake head yet; I’m still hopeful but thought I’d get the guitar finished while I wait. The rest is mostly done, although I didn’t clean and oil all the screws […]
Month: April 2015
Fender Stratocaster – Custom build
A collection of bits and pieces, put together should make a nice guitar… To make it a really great guitar, rather than just an average one I levelled the frets. Firstly making sure the neck is level.With it nice and flat, grind down the fret tops to a common level….Once levelled each fret needs to […]
Tanglewood Chicago – Service and setup
What a lovely guitar. I’m not sure if it’s been under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe but it’s not been played for ages and needed a good cleanup and service.The electrics were the biggest problem, scratchy and crackling at best, and plain just not working at worst.To be sure I pulled […]
#Telecaster – Setup and service
A little unusual this one, not the standard Tele’. It had few minor problems, nothing too difficult… The first one was a couple of stripped out screws. It’s easy to do, in this case it’s the screws from the control plate. I drilled out the old hole and glued in a couple of wooden plugs… Once […]
Epiphone ES339 – Fret dress and setup
A great looking guitar, sadly not playing as well as it should. In fact they made a bit of a mess of this one, the frets are all over the place..The 11th was the highest but they were all very uneven. You’d like to think a new guitar would be better than that but, sadly, […]
Squire Jagmaster – New Pickup
A simple way to improve the way your guitar sounds, new pickups… The wiring is actually very simple..What’s not so simple is setting them up afterwards, it’s a bit of an art to get the sounds balanced. With this one I found the two pickups worked better with the neck pickup flipped round.Looking and sounding […]
Richie Sambora Stratocaster
Nice guitar but It’s got some problems. Probably been there from new, but now I’m going to put it all right… The first problem is the Intonation. No matter what the owner did it just didn’t sound right all the way up and down the neck.Looking at the nut the slot for the bass E […]