He had replaced the foil style pickups with P-90s. I secured the pickup selector and tweaked the truss rod and polished the frets. Cool little short scale with vibrato bridge.
This project was for a gentleman who had he friend pick it up for him because he was on an oil freighter and was out to sea for the next 5 months.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Setup - Squier Garbagepail-caster
This guitar was dropped off by a friend who plays in a band and he needed it setup to play C# so we used Ernie Ball Mammoth 12s and really cranked the truss rod, adjusted the pickup height and re-intonated the saddles.
Monday, November 18, 2013
Repair - Applause Acoustic Guitar bowl back 1980's
- Remove and re-glue bridge
- Level, crown, and polish frets
- Lower saddle and nut for better action and intonation
- Service tuners for better tuning stability
- Clean and touch up minor imperfections in finish
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Repair - G Holiday vintage acoustic guitar 1960s Orchestra model
Had this old mystery guitar in the shop the other day. 160s department store acoustic guitar in orchestra model size. It has a steel re-enforced neck, but its an adjustable truss rod
- Custom made a new bone saddle
- Installed side dots at the 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th and 12th frets
- Filed down the bridge to improve action
- Leveled, crowned, and polished the frets
- Cleaned & oiled the fretboard
- Glued and filled numerous cracks on the top, sides, and back
- Slotted the bridge pin holes to improve the break angle of the strings
- Lubed and adjusted the open gear 3x tuners
- Sanded and filed the nut to improve string height
- Restrung with Ernie Ball earthwood lights 10 gauge
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Friday, July 12, 2013
Repair - Lefty MIM 2006 Fender Stratocaster transformation
This project is a made in Mexico Stratocaster, but the pickguard had been adorned with some nail polish art and the headstock had sharpie on it. both had to go:
- Removed stickers and residue from back of guitar
- Removed and restored sharpie ink on headstock
- Swapped out the pickguard for a made in US parchment white
- Added aged white pickup covers and knobs
- Fixed finish on fretboard

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