2014 Fender American Vintage '65 Stratocaster [7.9 lbs] :: setup

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A 1965 Strat reissue in to address a few high frets along with a setup.  Every once in awhile I find that the saddle spring on the low E does not allow enough room to push the saddle back to it's ideal intonation point.  To properly intonate these situations, the spring requires a few coils of this spring to be clipped.  Sometime the G string saddle spring needs this too.

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1965 Guild S-100 Polara :: headstock delamination repair, tuner repair, upper strap button plug / redrill and set up

1965 Guild S-100 Polara :: headstock delamination repair, tuner repair, upper strap button plug / redrill and set up.

Love.  These.  Pickups.

1965 Epiphone Olympic :: headstock and heel break repairs

1965 Epiphone Olympic :: headstock and heel break repairs.  Also the Seymour Duncan single-sized humbuckers were custom mounted and a TonePros AVT-II wraparound bridge installed to greatly improve the intonation.  The original bridge has fixed saddles with a G set for a wound string.

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1965 Epiphone Olympic :: broken headstock reglue

1965 Epiphone Olympic :: broken headstock reglue.

Once in three pieces, the guitar is now one again.  But, there is going to be quite a bit filling in a slew of missing pieces in both the head and heel breaks before prepping for the spray booth.

1965 Epiphone Olympic :: neck-to-body repair. Guitar turns from a three piece to a two piece

1965 Epiphone Olympic :: neck-to-body repair.  Guitar turns from a three piece to a two piece

The headstock repair is going down later this weekend.  Gluing up the headstock is going to be tricky.  There is the main head plus two smaller pieces and I need to keep the epoxy away from the truss rod threads.  I’m thinking electrical shrink wrap may help me out here.