Cheap Guitar Repair and Setup - Neck Shim Install
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
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If you want to remove any residual film after the fret polish, you can put Zippo fluid on a rag and wipe the fingerboard clean. I did not show this, because it's possible to discolor some dyed fingerboards that are found on very few budget imports. Use your own judgement. I use Zippo fluid guys.
There is something really attractive for me about these cheap guitars.. I like that they are cheap and honest and do the work, if you show them some love... Thank you for showing how to do this fix, I will use it on one of mine.. Cheers!👍
Great tips on neck shimming! My guitar feels brand new!
Thanks for the clear instructions, my guitar setup is perfect now!
Awesome tutorial! Saved me a lot on repair costs!
sharing it around
I was given a First-Act Strat...single humbucker. P.O.S.
I replaced all the electronics using 3 Fender single coils...
Reshaped the neck smaller, Reshaped the headstock to Strat shape, stained and finished it.
Leveled and crowned the frets and a full setup.
New, $60. I got it free.....looks and plays and sounds like a custom shop Stratocaster.
(I'm really good at fret work!)
Hi Hank,
Happy Independence Day!
I hope your doing OK.
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Interesting video, it reminds me of my first electric guitar which i got in 1975 when i was eleven or twelve. It was a second hand thing with 2 old style pick ups, that looked vaguely like a Strat . It didn't even have a name on the headstock. I loved the feel of the guitar and spent thousands of hours playing it and even used it in the first bands i played in around 1976 to 1979, and I got so got used to it , that any other guitar felt a little odd to me. I showed it to the guy who built my custom guitar in 2022 , and he said that all of the neck and fretboard measurements were very strange and peculiar, even the thickness of the headstock and the height of the bridge and spacing between the strings were weird, which made a unique instrument. It also has a flat fretboard like the Vigier! We can't find anything even close to its dimensions online, and He thinks it was possibly made much earlier, somewhen in the mid or even early 1960s, when electric guitars would have been very expensive in this country.
My hands still remember it because I learnt so much on it when I was very young, and it still felt so comfortable and friendly to me to play.
So after talking to him about it I decided to have him restore it for me! It started with a stainless steel refret, and new headstock tuners, a new nut that he had to make, and some major repairs to the edge of the fretboard were I had worn it down a lot. A complete electronics rewire with new pots and switches, and a new bridge. The bridge was the hardest thing to do as I wanted to be able to move every string in any direction, and because of my preference for a very low action and getting a great intonation. Initially he could only find one bridge online that could do the job, which was ridiculously expensive at over £400!...Around $500 US dollars at least.
But eventually, he found a bridge that he could alter with some engineering, and having part of the bridge upside down and back to front, which works perfectly and looks a bit odd, which is even better. Now that it's back to its firmer glory, and technically a better instrument, which my hands still remember, leading me to play more basic rock, and punky stuff, plus even metal and basic prog that I first played on it, learning many different things of several years and thousands of hours!
The Body of it is a lot more beaten up than the one your sister found, which was lot to do with one band I was in that had very energetic stage shenanigans, because the bass player and main singer and front man was mad about The Who, so a lot of our gear, and even My PA saw a lot of physical abuse on stage. But it was Abuse that actually didn't fundamentally break anything[my PA was a WEM with four cabinets and 3 speakers in each cabinet, and basically looked much like a slightler smaller versions of the WEM stuff you see Pink Floyd using in the film " Live at Pompey". It was all electronic transistors, no valves and actually sounded pretty good somehow. Plus the bass player had his own bespoke valve amp which sounded great and even used to glow rather brightly, and often smelt like something was burning!] So when my PAs 4 tall speaker cabinets had been toppled, plus the drum kit scattered, it stopped having to do any encores.. whuch was rsther sneaky as we were only 13 or 14 and couldn't do that many songs well enough live yet and couldn't do more than 40 minutes as a support band. We still got clapped though, with our peculiar mix of rock music that we kept simple and straightforward and loud!!
Have a great day Hank
🎸 🎶 🍩 🐻 😄 later 🐊!!
Hey JaanJaaan! Thank you man. I hope you've been doing well. Hey, I am going to start streaming again soon. But it has to be on Twitch and Tiktok. Because I am playing covers, and there is just 0 tolerance for this on YT anymore. If you aren't following my Twitch, follow me www.twitch.tv/hankguitar
I am also @hankcoffey on tiktok. Hope to see you back in the live sometime man. 🍩🐻🎸😋🍩
10 out of 10
Just a little FYI: A local luthier used a portion of a scratch-off lottery ticket to shim the neck of a 2nd hand Tele I bought that had a neck pocket issue.
It looks okay to me I like the overall appearance and I don't even care for strats. Except that headstock is hideously cheap looking like an old Harmony that was in a JC Penney catalog in 1987
great vid
Thank you Ginni
Hell ya man. That will come in handy as your cool teddy 🧸 Axe. Hahah
Teddy says it's too cheap for him to play
0:00 Intro
0:46 Guitar Cleaning
6:51 Installing New Strings
9:25 Shimming The Guitar Neck
16:37 Playing The Guitar
18:04 Outro
Well frashizzle my nizzle! Dat sucka be smooth clean cold cut homes! I gots a munky wrench if need be ti fix da mofo FORSHO 🦍
Shal nuff be mane, you know how we do up in hizzy, fo shizzy, my nizzle. Sheee
Put that thing on reverb...😅
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