Guitar

I restrung the James Bisset Fiftieth Anniversary Edition tonight and it’s working a treat. It’s still not particularly loud, but it’s clean and clear and sweet. Now all it needs is some serious breaking in.
I’ve made a pdf of…

Well, having procrastinated for weeks over the guitar re-wiring, I managed to get it done this evening.
It was actually much simpler than I thought, and I think I’ve learned a useful lesson about soldering – just start from scratch…

Well, the nuts and files finally arrived and I’ve strung the James Bisset 50th Anniversary guitar, opened up the current nut with the files to suit my strings and played it for a while. I’m afraid it makes the old…

Yes, the headstock is finally finished. The sanding and polishing was completed tonight, the guitar has been re-assembled and I fully expect the nuts and files to arrive tomorrow.
Let’s just hope it sounds as good as it looks.
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I bought my nuts and files from Warmoth in the States, who previously supplied the body, neck and bridge for my guitar. I’ve been watching the progress of my package across the world via the UPS site which is very…

I’ve added a couple more coats of cellulose after the rubbing and levelling a few days ago, just to make sure I don’t cut through when it comes to the final smoothing and polishing.
I’ll give it a few days…

Rather than the usual method of using decals on the headstock of the guitar, I used a ‘rubdown’ – which is the same technology that Letraset originally built their fortune on.
It’s not easy to get rubdowns to stick to…

I managed to suss out what was wrong with the wiring in the guitar. One wire soldered to the wrong tag on a pot. It worked fine, just not quite the way I wanted it to. So how long would…

I tried rewiring the guitar tonight, but it turned into one of those ‘one problem after another’ situations.