Hi everyone, I was hoping to get some advice on training opportunities. My background and situation (briefly), I’m a self-taught guitar tech and electric luthier with 3 years experience (after 20yrs office work). I have a job in a high volume guitar shop doing setups and quality checks on outgoing/sold guitars. The store does repair work but I have not been included in this, despite many requests. I do not believe this is due to skill le…
Joe, It sounds like you know A LOT more than I did when I started my business. I started it as a side hustle and worked another job during the day, growing skills on nights and weekends and taking on…
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I just had something happen that I can't understand, and I am looking for theories. I was working on an '80s Kramer. The action could not be lowered any further than about 5/64" -- as in no further downward adjustment in the Floyd Rose -- so I removed the neck in case there was a shim in there. There was not. I put the neck back on and the action was now considerably higher. So off with the neck again, and I noticed the imprint of a coi…
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Not super tight... but the screw holes in the body would not allow the screws to pass through without a screw driver, like a lot of guitars. That might have been enough to do this. This seems to confi…
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I've done a number of traditional acoustic neck re-sets but I have never been in a scenario to do a re-set on a Gibson electric, and in this case, a 67 Gibson EB2 until now. But having never done one, it'd be nice to find out how. Anyone here feel to share some advice on how to go about this? I am always up for a challenge if that is indeed what I am up against. C
Thanks Fellas for the suggestions, I really appreciate it. The finish around the heel is already a bit compromised, but it's also a custom color. So matching it would be quite the adventure. Though th…
Today's atrocity is this 1975 '72 Telecaster Custom with a formerly "repaired" gash in the neck at the 11th fret. The customer says she bought it that way in the early '80s and does not know the former service history. I doubt that she is responsible for all that play wear. She wanted to be the next Chrissie Hinde, but ended up as an accountant. I can't tell if these frets are original. Maybe someone tried to pull the 11th fret, and sinc…
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Looking for suggestions on approaches to dealing with that neck blemish. The frets are probably going to have to come out, so that past "repair" has to be dealt with. It might be some sort of wood fil…
I have a new client with 100+ shredder type guitars. He gave me a couple of the easier ones to work on. The first is an ESP which fretted out with bends up above the 12th fret. I thought it was just the 2/64th" low action, but the last two frets seemed really high. I suspected there was a shim in the pocket, and yeah, there was. The bottom of the neck heel is deformed where the shim was. The shaded/dirty area at the bottom edge. Not den…
Those side markers are a real concern. Here are some options Drill the markers out, fill and instal new markers after the leveling. Make as much improvement as is possible without hitting them Pull th…
