Setup - Fender Stratocaster Candy Apple Red made in Mexico 1999

Setup - Epiphone SG G-310 Cream White electric guitar

Repair - Memphis Telecaster Custom electric guitar made in Japan 1970s - Pickup & neck

This is a copy of a Fender custom style telecaster, it even has an ashtray cover for the bridge pickup.

 The neck needed some work, mainly truss rod adjustment and fret work, a few frets were taller than others and were leveled.

The neck wide range humbucker pickup wasn't functional and after some investigation it was determined the coil wounds were broken, so I ordered a new one from ebay and then installed it and everything works perfect now. Great maple neck and very nice medium jumbo frets.

Setup - Noble Mosrite copy Ventures Hollow Body 1969 made in Japan

Setup - Alvarez Regent parlor acoustic guitar

 

Repair - "The Doug" Les Paul Copy Japanese 1970s - Wiring

This was dropped off with the idea it needed a complete overhaul as the customer said it was her father's and had been sitting for over 3o years!

I had to replace the pickup switch, the one in it worked but was only a 2 way switch and was mis-sized as it was a switch from Radio shack. 

Then replace the volume potentiometers which were scratchy and cutting out, and then rewire the tone potentiometers as they were wired reverse which is supposedly not uncommon in Japanese guitars. 

Also added new knobs as the old knobs were a weird acrylic brass combo. Adjusted the truss rod, leveled and polished the frets to fix the fret choking and gave it a major clean. 

There was tons of rust, dirt, grime and play wear. I used 21 tooth picks in the headstock because there had been so many different tuners installed on it. 

I found parts I sourced from ebay, including sg style 60's knobs, 3way switch and pots. Lots of soldering later and everything works as it originally should. 

Before

After

Setup - Epiphone SG Standard electric guitar 2005

Setup - Fender Stratocaster made in Mexico 1997 black vintage specs

Lovepedal Luis overdrive Tweed

This is an original enclosure overdrive pedal by Lovepedal brand pedal company. The story is he found stamps at an arts and craft store and named the pedals after them and then stamped the pedals with them. This is one of the original hand stamped models. The pedal emulates a tweed amp sound.