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I want a new book to inspire weeknight dinners. Any recommendations?

Testy… https://youtube.com/shorts/8wodt9jr_So?si=0a2O7MpI4qz6cLPG

Ok, nut fettled and string trees attached. Went with two in the end as I hate the ringy
behind the nut resonance thing you get when the g string doesn’t have enough downward pressure. It looks a bit fussy but I think it’s ok.

Had the absolute bare minimum to do on relief, nut slot height and intonation. It’s basically spot on as is. Just wanted the corners of the nut softened and that was it. Am super happy with how it feels and sounds! Like have a new guitar that’s also an old friend. Very happy.

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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Not sure if @Acliff will kick off a new one of these in the new year but been awesome to see everyone's progress across the lifetime of the thread. Personally find it a great, supportive space to help with what can be quite a difficult to discuss challenge.

I'd also say that this time of year is generally filled with excess and it's more than likely we will all add a little timber over the holidays. Know that if you've done it once you can do it again, so have fun and don't sweat it too much.

eats another mince pie

amen to that dude. well done every body!

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:

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

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...

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.

Fourteen years ago apparently.

It’s about my balls.

I popped into a neighbour’s place to pick up my kids from a play date last week and noticed a framed print of the phrase “New age fun with a vintage feel”. I laughed and said “awesome, haven’t heard that in a while”. Cue blank looks. Turns out they appear to have put it up unironically. Oh dear.

I’m in bushing diameter hellllll

Ta. I'll probably hang on to it for completeness. I bought it new in 2000 so there's an element of nostalgia attached. Plus once i've sorted the frets i was thinking about using it to built an Esquire. Maybe.

Ordered some "no line" Klusons yesterday and they turned up this morning. Annoyingly though the supplied bushings are the wrong size and I can't fit the tuner shaft in the hole (titter ye not etc). Not sure how that happened as they were packaged up in a sealed bag in the original box. Weird. Anyway. Will have to wait a bit longer to get it operational.

Looking good, attached and fingerboard treated, but I’m waiting for new (old) tuners and need to finish the nut before I can play it.

Ha. Gross. Fake Gibsons are the Trumpiest.

Can’t comment on specifics but hearing protection is must for me now. I went without at a loud session earlier this year and think I did some permanent damage. Er on the side of caution I’d say. You can always take them out of not needed.

Good point.

I know right?! He paid 2k Eu for it. '63, all original parts, original finish and original case with original shop invoice. I was surprised that it seemed pretty affordable and way cheaper than stuff goes for on reverb here. I wasn't sure if that is a UK/Germany thing but actually I think it's more the face-to-face "good customer" thing. There's a '68 CBS era one on reverb right now for £3k. Considering his is pre-CBS... just goes to show if you're in the market for this stuff, it's worth building a relationship with a proper delaer. Sadly I don't have the disposable income (or tax-deductable situation) to be regularly shoping for vintage gear in person so that's not really an option.

Still - I get to live vicariously and play and record with this stuff for FREE so I definitely not complianing.

Am just swapping the neck over on my Tele. Gonna get it set-up and twangin' this evening.

That Bronco was fun too. It’s a ‘63 I think and was minty!

Also rocked this 90s custom shop LP (thru a Kemper!) which was surprisingly fun!

Fun weekend playing lots of nice guitars. My favourites were this Gretsch Double anniversary from ‘67, and a lovely ‘90s J-50 that I did some recording with. I need a J-50 in my life.

Oh and I bought a tele neck

Having a very guitary weekend in Germany. Visiting an old band mate who is now a film composer and playing ALL the many awesome guitars.

Current situation