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I’m taking a break from touring and as a result spending a lot more time in the workshop doing guitar repairs and setups. I’ve also been visiting the wonderful Jon Shuker in Derbyshire regularly where I’ve been building my own guitar (under Jon’s tutelage). I can’t recommend Jon’s guitar building course enough, his work is…
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The guitar headstock repair jig is taking shape. Just finalising the position of the toggle clamps and then I just need to figure out once and for all how I’m going to mount the threaded bars or bolts that will push down on the top of the headstock via a peace of wood packing. The…
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The “David Collins” style headstock repair jig is beginning to take shape. Hoping to have this finished today. Search online for more info on David Collins initial design, it clamps the guitar from every direction and applies pressure just where you need it when gluing a headstock, at least I hope it does! More photos/updates…
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The frets are in and I’m currently working on the nut. Here are some photos of the progress I’ve made. Something that may interest other Fender owners was the fact that the neck had moved in the pocket causing the high E string to be dangerously close to the fingerboard edge. You can see on…
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Yet another re-fret, this time a fender Musicmaster. The frets on this are tiny and proved really difficult to get a grip on. I’m looking forward to seeing how this turns out.
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It’s been slow going with this one as I’ve had a few other jobs to take care of but we’re getting there. Here you can see the board has been levelled, the fret slots cleaned out and the frets over bent and roughly cut to size. There has been some minor chipping of the fretboard…
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I’ve currently got this Ibanez on the bench for a re fret. I’m going to be using this blog to more regularly update what I’m working on and then use the Workshop section of the site to catalogue my passed guitar repair projects. I welcome any comments, hints or tips you may have on what…
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This is probably the worst thing that can happen to any guitar, to be honest it’s probably harder on the guitarist but still it makes for a pretty gruesome picture. In this case the break wasn’t completely clean and a small peace of wood had broken loose, not visible on this image I’m afraid. The…
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I hope everyone enjoyed themselves over the festive period. I’m starting to work through my jobs, my main aim is to get that jig finished. Watch this space.
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I’m going to be taking over the the repair department at Rich Tone Music Sheffield for the next few weeks starting today. Looking forward to seeing what surprises today has in store.
