What's better than a New Guitar Day?
(not many things really but......)
Getting your unplayable Telecaster back into line?
I have this partscaster, with three great pickups and a comfy fat Allparts neck. The 'tall, narrow' frets were cutting my fingers to ribbons, where I'd worn the crowns down.....and the wiring was noisy enough, to get venue sound guys reaching for the filters, on their boards.
I always hated the tall-ness.....so I asked the local young luthier (the one that built a Les Paul, out of scrap mahogany, from my shed, when he was in high school) to take them down and re-crown 'em. Since he had it anyway, I asked him to re-do the wiring and make it silent. The guitar was a Brent Mason tribute- but of the various 'Mason' wiring suggestions- including mine- many don't allow the middle pickup to be used, on it's own.....and I like that sound: Jimmie Vaughan tone!
A week later and the guitar plays like it should. Not 'like it used to'.....because it never played this well, or without excessive hum.
It's great.
The moral? Sometimes the improvement you are looking for, is already here- for the price of a tune-up.
(not many things really but......)
Getting your unplayable Telecaster back into line?
I have this partscaster, with three great pickups and a comfy fat Allparts neck. The 'tall, narrow' frets were cutting my fingers to ribbons, where I'd worn the crowns down.....and the wiring was noisy enough, to get venue sound guys reaching for the filters, on their boards.
I always hated the tall-ness.....so I asked the local young luthier (the one that built a Les Paul, out of scrap mahogany, from my shed, when he was in high school) to take them down and re-crown 'em. Since he had it anyway, I asked him to re-do the wiring and make it silent. The guitar was a Brent Mason tribute- but of the various 'Mason' wiring suggestions- including mine- many don't allow the middle pickup to be used, on it's own.....and I like that sound: Jimmie Vaughan tone!
A week later and the guitar plays like it should. Not 'like it used to'.....because it never played this well, or without excessive hum.
It's great.
The moral? Sometimes the improvement you are looking for, is already here- for the price of a tune-up.
