Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Little drawback

I had a little drawback last Monday on the neck of the guitar. But more of that later. There are some little jobs that need to be done on the guitar to finish it up. One of them involves adjusting the neck. But before I could do that I first had to make a hole in the head stock plate to reach the Allen nut on the truss rod. First I made some rough outline holes with a drill:
With the Dremel and a cutter bit I widened the hole till I could reach the Allen.
The neck can now be adjusted by tightening the truss rod. After the adjustments the neck looked straight and I strung it up again. Still there where some rattles here and there so the frets must be leveled. But after leveling there where still some high spots on the places where the leveling to place. Since this was strange we looked a bit closer and the frets that had this problem appeared to be loose!! After an inspection of all the frets it appeared that more then half of the frets suffer from this issue . We have to remove all the frets, make new once and glue those in to prevent them from coming loose again. This will take some extra time so I am thrown back a bit in time but hey, that is custom building.
Along with this job two other things need to be done. Making a truss rod cover and a heel cap. The heel cap will be made out of rosewood. The truss rod cover I already tackled. Since there was very little space under the string wood would really be an option since it had to made to thin an delicate. I had a plectrum which made (after some modifications) an excellent cover:
The letters which are on there say WWJD which means "What Would Jesus Do?"
I also bought a little practice amplifier, the Orange Micro Crunch CR3 along with a Fender Vintage Tweet cable. It works really great and gives a nice sound. I can even make the guitar Rocky by using the overdrive.  It also has a build in guitar tuner. Look at the little fellow:

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