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Neck strip, oil & fret level :: 1982 Yamaha BB2000 [9.9 lbs]

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Neck strip, oil & fret level :: 1982 Yamaha BB2000 [9.9 lbs]

A neck-through early 80's Japanese Yamaha PJ (note the reverse P pickup) in for a neck strip and refinished with Tung oil.  There is some nice birdseye figure in this neck that didn't really show until I stripped the thick poly and started to apply the oil.  During the setup I found many uneven frets so a level, crown and polish was required to get the action super low for this player.  With older guitars, often the screws are an odd assortment of non-originals.  This was missing a few pickup screws that needed to be replaced with the proper metric ones.  The bridge pickup even had a coarse wood screw holding it in place.  Thankfully the pickup threads were not damaged (somehow) and cleanly accepted a new screw.  The side-mounted output jack plate also fell victim to the random screw swapping so I replaced them all with a matching quartet.

Video of the fret level and neck strip from the vlog below.

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Fret end dress & string tree :: Warmoth Telecaster [8.3 lbs]

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Fret end dress & string tree :: Warmoth Telecaster [8.3 lbs]

Fret end dress & string tree :: Warmoth Telecaster [8.3 lbs]

Flame maple top, mahogany back and birdseye neck on this humbucker-equipped Tele.  The neck is a short-scale 24.75" conversion neck with 24 frets.  This Warmoth came into the shop for a fret end dress and a setup.  Originally it did not have a string tree on the headstock so the lower tension of the shorten scale left the high strings buzzy and lacking sustain.  The added vintage-style string retainer greatly improved the tone and dynamic range of these two strings.

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