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Heat seems to be the recommended advice. Heat gun on low heat, clothes pressing iron with brown paper to prevent scorching etc.
Chipps, if you are ever in Manchester there are a few GS in stock in Forsyths (top floor)
I've got a real hankering for one too... Just a shame (also a good thing for my bank account) there are no lefty ones to try
Oooh I like that steamer of his
Got the neck off, heat gun and lots of wiggling did the trick.
Now time to clean all the old glue out and see if it will fit back on in the right spot as it was totally misaligned before. the action at last fret was 10mm and neck wast not straight, the low E string was not even over the fret board.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/83246699@N00/50544301043/in/dateposted-public/
2. The control layout.
The Tele controls are pretty much perfectly placed. Strat knobs get in the way, depending how you play.
And no tone control on the bridge? Please….
ON my Strat I've removed the volume pot and wired the other two like a Tele. So I don't accidentaly wind the volume off and I can take some of the edge off the bridge pickup without touching the amp. I still accidentally flick the switch sometimes but as the bridge pickup goes through the tone pot the change doesn't shock as much as it did.
Got the neck off, heat gun and lots of wiggling did the trick.
Now time to clean all the old glue out and see if it will fit back on in the right spot as it was totally misaligned before. the action at last fret was 10mm and neck wast not straight, the low E string was not even over the fret board.
Nice work. How straight/twisted is the neck?
ON my Strat I’ve removed the volume pot and wired the other two like a Tele. So I don’t accidentaly wind the volume off
Noo! I need to be able to violin the volume pot!
The worst feature of my JTV59 is the volume pot is out of finger range...
he neck itself is fine, it had just been put on very badly.
so hopefully i can get it back in working order, just need to figure out how to find the right angle etc. but i will worry about that a little later fow now i want to get it sanded down and try and fix the failing gluejoints and a few small cracks where the tailpiece is attached.
Try look at the body upside down and tell me what you think it looks like.
some more tidying of the neck joint.
a bolt had been added but without making sure everything fitted as it should.
the round mark is from where a threaded insert had been added without making room for it, why the neck angle was way off.
Now to figure out how to get it back on.
Somebody made a proper bodge of that.
yep, hope i can find someone who can put it back on for me as its cleaning up nicely overall.
A decent luthier should be able to help. Acoustic neck re-sets are a pretty standard thing with older guitars.
Guess it's time to own up to this being my stage guitar - a 1983 Dean Z with the shrimpfork headstock and a pair of SD Pearly Gates humbuckers.
My Tokai is a better guitar, but this looks the tits.
That is sweet looking and i usually do not like those "weird" shapes.
Hope your right Hero, i have send some pictures to a Luthier and asked him if he can do it.
The local one to me only do setups these days to busy to do stuff like this.
All these beautiful guitars!
Puts shame to my £99 chinese no name jalopy!
I’m sure a lot of you will have seen this on Paul David’s YouTube feed but listening to 10 different guitarists talking their approach to an 8 bar solo was pretty cool to me.
Just out of interest, Pro Solo in Burnley have just become a Tokai dealer.
They will be stocking some of the Chinese guitars but will be able to order the Japanese models on request.
Bought a few guitars from them and Paul is an excellent bloke to deal with.
Apparantly Tokai have a new UK distributor so should be much easier to get hold of from now on.
Arse. 🙂
a pair of SD Pearly Gates humbuckers.
I've got a pair of those in a black top Tele. Excellent through a Marshall JCM. They're splittable but don't have the grunt of a normal Tele bridge pickup when split.
I don't actually like them that much - they're decent but a bit muddy.
My favourite pickup is a GFS Dream 90 - a HB sized P90 - just lovely, and cheap too!
That Dean Explorer is ace! I still have an idle desire for (another, I sold the last one) Explorer... Although the new Fender Meteora fits the 'quirky big slab guitar' bill too...
anyone seen tuning machines like this anywhere in the UK or EU?
Im after something not chrome/gold/silver for the Mystery project which im almost sure is a Musima/Heinz Seiffert
@Mikkel: not 'relic-ed' so shinier, but these might Kluson prestige might work:
Thanks
Xmas?
They sound really good!
I used to have an H&K TriAmp which was lovely. Can't remember why I sold it now!
Been eyeing these up for a while - look like pretty good value (more so if you were in the States)...
https://deanzelinsky.com/
Got a tailpiece that a friend had lying around, so just done a quick test with some old strings to see if things line up and about to stick the neck back on myself as no way i got the patience to wait until lock down is over and then wait for someone to have the time to do it for me.
Wish me luck
Excellent! I can lose hours watching guitar restoration videos on youtube 🙂
Now I just need to learn how to play
You know that moment when you're jammimg away with your 80yr old landlord and he walks back in the room with his 1961 blonde tele he's had since new?
Oh my ****ing lordy!!!!!
Still not a fan of them but I felt a bit like Indiana Jones for a minute.
Last time he had it valued they said £17k. Probably three times that now.
There will be pictures over the next couple of days.
Looking forward to seeing the pictures eddie
Back in the land of 500e guitars I couldn't play my new acoustic bass without fear of it falling off because the strap mount/jack socket only has a shallow grove. So I got my drill, files and hacksaw out and made this:
Clever eh! The bit of shock cord threaded through acts as a lock.
@Mikkel, your project looks amazing. Right up my street. Please keep posting updates.
Next step will be to make a new bridge/saddle whatever you call it, as the one I got with it is another bodged job.
(If the neck is staying on tomorrow)
Clever eh! The bit of shock cord threaded through acts as a lock.
Nice work there. And you can take it off easily unlike going down the Grolsch bottle washer route.
Have a look at the bridge on a Gibson SG 61 with tailpiece, Mikkel, I reckon it would fit. You can get copies cheap on sites such as Thomann.
Edit: the bottle washer/plastic strap lock won't fit because the groove is too narrow, Eddie, that's why I had to think of something else
Good idea Educator, had not thought of that style bridge bit quite sure it will fit the style though
First attempt have failed.
Not enough clean wood to get a good bond.
Does anyone have any knowledge of aftermarket Fender necks? The frets on my 1990 MIM Strat are very worn - I'm not sure that a fret file / dress will fix them and the neck itself is not so special that I want to pay for a refret (Truss rod adjust in an annoying place and cosmetically it's not perfect). Looking at new necks but I don't really know what to look for. Fender American necks are pretty expensive (£500+) which is probably a bit more than I want to spend.
These Roasted Maple MIM necks look cool but there's something about Pau Ferro that's just not as nice as Rosewood. Or there's a Maple top one.
https://www.andertons.co.uk/guitar-dept/electric-guitar-accessories/electric-guitar-parts/fender-roasted-maple-stratocaster-neck-22-jumbo-frets-12in-pao-ferro-flat-oval-shape
eBay / Reverb?
Warmoth?
Something else?
Back in the land of 500e guitars I couldn’t play my new acoustic bass without fear of it falling off because the strap mount/jack socket only has a shallow grove. So I got my drill, files and hacksaw out and made this:
Nice. Is that also an output jack? It's a strange shape.
War mouth has always been my go to bits company.
Yes it's an output jack, Superficial, bigger than any other I've seen.
I bought a 2012 Squier classic Vibe neck from France Guitar when they had exactly the one I wanted. They have a good range of Fender necks at sensible prices.
My son has a Warmoth neck and I've got two. Junior has a vintage style Tele neck with gloss nitro, stainless frets and a 10" radius, it's a delight. I've got two modern style with double expanding truss rods, 10"-12" radius, dunlop frets and matt nitro. One is a Strat with a modern C which is just like a Squier classic vibe. The other is sort of flat C Tele.
My two required a few hours work. Fenders have very rounded fret ends, sometimes too rounded and it's easy to lose the string over the edge when doing vibrato (my vibrato is clumsy). Warmoth leave the frets with angular ends unless you pay them to do otherwise - you will probably want to spend some time with a polishing mop in the drill bit to smooth them even if you don't fully round them (buy a fret board protector before you do so). You also have to clean the nitro off the frets youself and spend a few minutes with car polish on the back of the neck to make it really smooth. I lowered the nut slots on mine, junior left his standard. Fender drown their maple necks in thick varnish which mean that even their medium jumbo frets feel a bit low. Warmoth don't so the frets feel full size.
Have replaced the plastic PU cover and truss rod cover with rosewood ones, I like it a lot better now
My continued idle thinking about something affordable and Gibson-shaped continues. I do like a Junior (single and double cut) but really want a bridge humbucker. (Or do I?)
I've randomly found the shortlived Les Paul CM from (the fateful Gibson year of) 2015. One humbucker, some had robotuners, and a black stained finish, but still a maple cap, so a 'proper' Les Paul rather than an all mahogany Jr or Special. Anyone try one? Only they seem to ebay for about £500, which is what the similar-vibe Jared James Nicols Epiphone goes for...
http://legacy.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/2015/USA/Les-Paul-CM-2015.aspx
That looks nice.
The Jr above us my first ever guitar, it got picked by going to guitarguitar and filtered the solid body guitars from low to high price and went down the list until I found one I liked the look of 🙂
Don't have to worry about sound yet as they all sounds bad when I play them lol
Just turn them up a bit more and they'll all sound great 🙂
That Junior is a great first guitar though. A proper guitar and nothing that'll break or date it in years to come.
Haha good advice but not sure neighbours will like it.
After all the gear chasing in the pursuit of tone last night I played my Variax into a Line6 Stagesource L2m FRFR speaker. And for the all important tone I programmed a few patches into my Korg Pandora PX3.
A 20 year old pocket sized FX unit. Gosh it was fun. The basic addition of a smear of reverb added to the acoustic guitars and for the electrics a couple of lightly distorted sounds fitted the bill.
It’s been used a couple of times a year over the last 15 years but I had forgotten how much fun it was.
Anyway 4 of us had a socially distanced jam in the Very quiet village local last night. It was great to be playing with mates again. We’ve done it a few times after lockdown 1 eased and I’ll be sad and will miss it. Emailing files to and fro isn’t the same.
Beer helps too.