Blade California tinkering

*Blade California in for some tinkering. Sounds great now!

This guitar came in through a courier from another city.

- redid almost all the wiring; had to clean an older(but good) Alpha pot. Had 250K before, but sounds much better with 500K now. The battery snap was missing, so I added a new one. Bridge pup changed to Duncan Custom Custom, and I needed a lot of autoadhesive foam to get it at normal level haha.

- fretboard cleaning + fretwire mildly cleaned a bit, setup and some nut adjustments. The customer wanted the trem just a little bit above the body, and also to make the saddles parallel (they tend to be hard to stay in place neat, but I got that sorted out). Also made the springs noiseless

 

 

 

 

 

Kramer Baretta

* Did some tinkering on a Kramer Baretta , but unfortunately due to some aftermarket modifications to this guitar I could not do the setup correctly, as the jackson floyd on it is different that the stock ofr floyd,and does not give enough saddle travel to intonate the E and B strings finely on the upper register.
This will come back at some point for a total rewiring(has some issues and the solder spots are really cold), and a new trem. Would need the fretwire sides sanded and smoothed out also. Cool guitar nonetheless! Also waxed the neck back and made the springs noiseless

Flame Acoustic (neck fix and setup)

* Fixed a cracked neck(did not refinish) and did a setup on an entry level Flame guitar(nut and saddle adjusted).
It really plays decent now

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