Friday, June 15, 2018

Hagstrom Super Swede tinkering

*  A Hagstrom Super Swede came in for some overall tweaking:

- some nut adjustments
- fretwire polishing
- fretboard cleaning
- rewiring (cleaned the old pots, good quality CTS ones, usually just need a thorough clean!)
- removed some rust and lacquered some original screws black (those for which I did not have replacements)
- installed a set of Lace Dissonant Aggressors (also had to solder some stock wires on them that came loose from their solder points -> no biggie, it happens if the surface on which the solder should adhere to is not correctly sanded)
- usual setup: restring, intonation, neck
- the bridge inserts were completely coming out of the body with almost no resistance,  and the ground wire was almost broken in the hole, so I fixed those as well





















Ibanez Mostortion repair

* Fixed an Ibanez Mostortion pedal:

- it had some dead caps
- improper soldering on some parts
- the protection diode was fully destroyed
- unfortunately the IC was also destroyed, so I ordered one(this particular pedal has an obsolete/discontinued IC), but for the time being, a 4558 will do