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Spotty fretwork :: Allen Eden 335-style [8.1 lbs]

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Spotty fretwork :: Allen Eden 335-style [8.1 lbs]

An import 335 style semi-hollow in for some setup tweaks.  Mediocre fretwork is often par for the course on imports with uneven frets and sharp ends.  We decided to tap down the high frets and dress the ends to improve fretting up the neck.  The player uses this guitar for chord-melody style (ie Joe Pass) and strings it with flats

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Tuners & feedback :: 2012 Epiphone Casino NA [6.4 lbs]

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Tuners & feedback :: 2012 Epiphone Casino NA [6.4 lbs]

A good customer brought his new-to-him Casino in for a little work.  We swapped out the tuners for Grover Sta-Tite open back tuners.  The mounting holes on the back lined up, but I had to play around with the bushings.  Normally with press-in bushing tuners, I keep the original bushing in the headstock and install the new tuners.  The issue was that the Grover tuner posts were a hair too large to fit the bushings.  So you would think that I could just swap out the original bushings for the Grover ones, right?  Nope.  The Grover bushings were too small to stay in the headstock so I had to remove the original bushings, ream out the inside diameter of the bushings and re-install.  Ah the joys of modding import guitars: replacing metric components with mis-matched imperial unit hardware.

The player was also having feedback issues with the full hollow / P90 design of the Casino.  An inexpensive fix was to stuff black foam inside the f-holes to help reduce the sensitivity of the body.  Oddly enough, the foam I used was from my stash of foam that Stewmac uses to package Waverly tuners.

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