Fixing a favourite... pic heavy...

poopot · May 2019

Okay... Some of you may remember this guitar put together last year...

thats right... the very lovely "Swampy"...

Whilst I love the guitar, its never played right... It had fret buzz up to the 6th on just the E and B strings... Took it for a plek and it didn't help one bit.

Due to a manic year of life getting in the way Ive only just got round to addressing the issue... so here goes...

Off to @danielsguitars workshop for some help and guidance...

First up, set the neck straight with a notched edge and then check the frets with a straight edge...

All good on the bass side... Sweet!...

Not so great on the treble side... arse!!!!!!...

Was hoping I wouldn't have to but its frets out time...

with the frets out and the neck clamped flat... time to get out the levelling beam with some gritty stuff stuck to it...

Okay, starting to see the issue now... whilst the neck is straight as an arrow with no twists, the board has a dip in it!!!!!...

Onward with the levelling...

nearly done...

finally got there... and made some weight savings!... but... sanded through the dot markers... balls!....

so they had to come out as well....

Whilst the wife was out of the workshop I knicked some of his celluloid sheet and cut some new dots...

and stuck them in with the power of prayer!!!!...

all scraped and looking dotty.

had to deepen the metal line slots tho'...

then pressed some new metal lines in with the metal line pressing machine...

then glued the little fuckers in so they don't fall off!....

Whilst this was going on the smell of acetone hit me and I turned round to see that Swampy had lost his coat!!!!

Seemed rude to leave him naked so after grain fill and primer i squirted some silver at it...

Then some see through blue... roughly the same time as I got the results of my colour blindness test... ( I failed)

A few coats of clear... some time in the time machine and its back together...

"Looks great but does it work now?" I hear you cry...

Yes it bloody well does... very happy with it now... plays like it should... no fret buzz, no low spots... Banging guitar!!!!!

Bridgehouse · May 2019

Yep. That’s def had a banging...

sawyer · May 2019

Sweet!

Jez6345789 · May 2019

Lovely cant go wrong with red and sparkly

meltedbuzzbox · May 2019

Very impressive work there.

I preferred it blond though, it worked with the gold guard and the neck better.
Still looks alright though

axisus · May 2019

Nice job!

The one thing I would have done differently though would be to superglue into the fret slot side hole rather than on the fretboard.

Cool guitar

poopot · May 2019

axisus said:

Nice job!

The one thing I would have done differently though would be to superglue into the fret slot side hole rather than on the fretboard.

Cool guitar

There’s not really any side hole as the fret saw has a depth stop on it!... Easier to wick some glue under the frets and then scrape of the excess tbh!...

MLten80 · May 2019

looking noice!!
it's always so satisfying when an abandoned project gets a new lease of life
(just done a minty green leftovers partscaster myself, might do a thread seeing as it's a thing lately)

lovestrat74 · May 2019

Mad how that neck got through a plek setup! Now all you need is some decent pickups

poopot · May 2019

lovestrat74 said:

Mad how that neck got through a plek setup! Now all you need is some decent pickups

It has very decent pickups in it already

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