Guitar Nerds Anonymous

Plus import duty. It moves out of a small bargain territory 🙁

Spent yesterday replacing the shitty bridge on my Squire classic vibe Tele with a Wilkinson compensated with brass saddles and new strings. Took me most of the day to get the intonation anywhere near correct and I'm still not convinced the B and E are right.

It's gotta be a compromise somewhat with strings sharing the same saddle? One is OK the other not so.

Next up, replace the tuners

Not this website again................. gnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

Wilkinson compensated with brass saddles and new strings

I managed it quite easily with my Gotoh bridge with compensated brass saddles, which is quite an achievement for me as I'm normally crap at guitar setup.

I would suggest going in fresh and starting over again on that saddle with B and e strings.

With the Gotoh brass saddles, you can flip them over and the string break points are reversed. Maybe check to see if the Wilkinson ones offer the same - you may have inadvertently reversed them?

Will take a look. It was all together when received so assume they were in the correct way.

A lovely saunter down Denmark Street

Good for the Soul.

Roland have taken the Music Room unit and gone big.

I’m in bushing diameter hellllll

Thoughts and prayers

Reamer or negative shim?

Has anyone tried loop earplugs for reducing levels when playing/practicing in a group? Any thoughts?

I have some with the magnetic lanyard for gigs (as a punter not a performer) and they're OK. The lanyard was what swung it and it's quite handy to be able take them out and have them around your neck, but I don't think they're really any better than the cheap Thunderplugs I have apart from being easier to put in/take out (at a cost).

For production I've got some custom moulded ACS.

Free shipping. I'm buying two then....

https://www.gibson.com/en-GB/p/Electric-Guitar/Jimmy-Page-EDS-1275-Doubleneck-VOS/69-Cherry

@RonAsheton Rivera era Super Champ on ebay for £1,000.

Seems punchy AF, but I gather they are rare...

I want a Fender Deluxe Reverb...

Gassing hard

Not really that rare but it's seems they're becoming more desirable. Mine was AU$1,500 shipped from the US which turned out to be a good deal, I reckon.

I let a Deluxe slip by earlier this year, '68 SF reissue for AU$1k, great price but I couldn't justify it. And I don't have any more space for amps (or anything else for that matter) anyway. 🙃

There's a silverface reissue in my local music shop for 799 at the mo. No idea haven't had a proper lok so not sure if that's a good price or not. I do fancy trying one too. The earlier blackface RIs from the 00's were the the recived wisdom perfect small gig amp back when I spent too much time on the Telecaster Discussion Page. I don't think i've ever actually played one now that I come to think of it. I've had proper SF Twins, Pros, Champs and now a Vibrolux but I don't think i've ever played through a Deluxe Reverb... or a Princeton for that matter! Oversight.

Tele re-neck update: Got totally frustrated by being stuck in internal bushing diameter hell in which nothing i ordered fit the tuners I had and I couldn't find any helpful information online. Ended up doing this...

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Figured it was a pretty low risk strategy and...

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Gonna string up and do the nut this evening.

Oh also, a guitar teacher mate of mine has started sending pupils to me for guitar set-ups. I had a really gratifying experience this week where a bloke brought his son's guitar round needing a set-up.

His boy is 23 and has decided to go to music college so needed his instrument sorting out. It was a weird Fender MIJ stratty thing with a bridge humbucker and binding. It obviously hadn't had new strings maybe ever and the intonation was like a full semitone off. In fact the harmonic wasn't even over the 12th fret which had me worried for a bit i think it was just the extreme age and gunkiness of the strings.

I was able to take it from almost unplayable to *chef's kiss with a couple of hours of tinkering. It needed a little bit of fret dressingabove the 12th, a fret polish, fretboard clean and condition, action and intonation tweaking and i just happened to have the right trem arm sat in a box on unused spares so threw that in. Returned it yesterday and the bloke (who turns out to live just round the corner) was totally made-up, and brought me a properly posh bottle of wine as a thank you. All very wholesome.

I'm still doing it for free at the moment but thinking about maybe turning it into a side-hustle.

EDIT: googled it. Must have been one of these with an aftermarket humbucker:

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CAR Aerodyne… do want

Love this strat

that's banging

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Re-neck now has passed approval for entry into service. Now into shakedown testing and fettling phase. First impressions… it’s massive! Way more baseball bat than I appreciated before fitting and stinging up. It’s darker and I dig the frets. Still need string trees and nut work.

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Nice rig! 🙏