Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Putting it back together

Next up thru the shop is a BC Rich Gunslinger guitar that belongs to Shawn Makarov. Shawn has a refinishing shop here in town and actually did the lacquer finish on LowDown Basses #003. Shawn had refinished this guitar himself and wanted someone with a little more knowledge of repair work to re assemble it.
So pretty straight forward here. I started by bolting the neck back onto the body. Then I tackled the tuners and bridge system. This was my first time working with a Floyd Rose and found it to be a really cool bridge. Took me a minute to get the bridge angle just right but got it dialed in eventually. Then I got the nut installed and also got the neck pickup installed.
After that I strung it up to get an idea of where the action was and also to get the floyd rose really dialed in.

I was waiting on Shawn to choose a bridge pickup and eventually he decided on an EMG passive humbucker. I got everything wired up but was having trouble with the neck pickup working in series. It was fine in parallel but really weak signal in series. Double checked my wiring a few times and eventually just decided to wire both pickups in parallel.
Here is the guitar all put back together and setup and happy!
17. Shawn's BC Rich Gunslinger
- Completely reassembled guitar including re installation of all hardware and re wired in new pickups
- Re string, setup, cleaned, etc