Gibson Les-Paul – Re-wire

Gibson seem to be sorting themselves out.  This 2016 Les Paul’s lovely.  The owner has changed over the pickups but wants some fancy wiring options. The first thing is to remove the Gibson modular electronics package with it’s push/pull pots’. I much prefer push/push pots’, I sometimes find it difficult to grip the knobs and pull […]

Ibanez – Setup

Here’s a lovely guitar, just not behaving properly, needs a little work. The first thing is the bridge. The trouble with the wooden bridge is that intonation is always a bit of a compromise. The “Tune-o-matic” option means each string can be adjusted separately.  Since it’s a floating bridge the tape is there just so […]

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 […]