- lighlty sand neck to improve feeling
- Clean & polish frets
- adjust truss rod for better relief
- file saddles to avoid string breakage
- Restring with Ernie Ball 9 gauge
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Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Setup - Squier '51 electric guitar
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Repair - Kent KF-720 dreadnought acoustic guitar made in Korea 1970s Part 1
This job was a repair for someone who had tried to repair it themselves and had a lot of issues. So I was tasked to undo what had already been done and start over:
- Tap truss rod back into proper position
- Create custom string guide for zero fret
- Removed bridge, cleaned off super glue, filed lower to improve action and screw holes filled with its own matching sawdust
- Scraped and sanded bridge pad, filled and re-drilled 6 string holes for bridge
- Re-glued bridge, correcting string spacing and alignment
- Polished frets, rounded fretboard edges, cleaned & oiled rosewood
- De-glossed back of neck with Scotch Brite pad
- Minor cosmetic touch-ups with wood stain match pen
- New Elixir strings 13 gauge with setup
Thursday, July 29, 2021
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Repair - Marlboro Miles Acoustic Guitar 1990s Part 1
This was a challenging repair. This was a guitar that was purchased using Marlboro cigarette rewards points known as Marlboro Miles. It's a Chinese Martin copy and has some nice materials. However eventually though the owner smashed the guitar in a fit of rage (nicotine fit?) and kept the pieces for decades, until I came along and naively agreed to fix it.
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Repair - Epiphone Genesis Reissue made in Korea 2013 - Broken neck
This guitar was brought in with a severe crack in the neck near the headstock and needed a setup.
Glued it clamped it and then adjusted the truss rod and set the intonation, restrung with Elixr 10 gauge
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This was a challenging repair. This was a guitar that was purchased using Marlboro cigarette rewards points known as Marlboro Miles. It'...
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The story I was told by the previous owner is that his girlfriend in a fit of rage picked up his beloved guitar and tried to assail him wit...