First was a well worn Fender Bullet guitar. This thing definitely is naturally relic'ed and it needed a little love. The main issue was the electronics were not working correctly. After playing it plugged in for a couple minutes I knew it was the jack. Sure enough, opened here up and found the output jack ground wire was detached.
Soldered it back on and double check all the wiring. Before I attached the pickguard and harness back I decided to make my life easier by opening up the truss rod access channel. I could tell someone had already tried this but didn't follow thru. The pickguard already had a small ugly cut out near the truss access.
Then cleaned up the pickguard area
Got everything reattached and gave it a thorough cleaning and setup.
Next came an acoustic Fender that was having some fret problems. I found some high frets and went to work with my fret file. Brought the guitar into my friend Carl Pedigo and had him double check the work. He touched things up and I crowned and polished the frets. Unfortunately I took a little too much fret off the 2nd fret, low E string side. So I am waiting on some tools to pull that fret out and re fret it.
In the process of taking the strings out the G string snapped on me. Also, two of the bridge pins were broken. I had to poke one of the out thru the body and in the process found a nicely worn guitar pick.
So I replaced the broken bridge pins and re strung this baby up and gave it a setup. Plays way better with the exception of that low F#.
I am also happy to announce that I am now working in conjunction with Wilson Electronics Repair. https://www.facebook.com/wilsonelectronicsrepair
We had our first collaboration with Saam's old Gibson GA15 amplifier. Jacob diagnosed the problem and fixed it quickly. It turned out to be a bad power switch. I am looking forward to working with Jacob. He will be handling any amp, keyboard, pedals, or electronics repairs that come thru the shop.
12. Saam's guitars and amp
- Re soldered output jack ground, opened up truss rod access, setup, cleaned, tightened hardware on Fender bullet
- Fret level, replaced broken bridge pins, setup w/re string.
- Gibson GA15 amp switch repaired by Wilson Electronics Repair.
