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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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Interesting nut shim :: 1997 Gibson Blues Hawk [6.5 lbs]

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Interesting nut shim :: 1997 Gibson Blues Hawk [6.5 lbs]

A creative alternative to shimming a nut with this small piece of wood.  I see a lot of business card scraps but this is the first mini nut to come across the bench.  Unfortunately in this position the "fix" wreaks havoc on intonation as it shortens the scale length on the G string.  Ideally I like to replace the nut but removing the additional piece of wood and filling / recutting the nut slot was a more economical solution for the customer.

This customer is a bit of a tinkerer so he swapped out the pickups.  In the neck is a Sentell P-90 and a TV Jones Soapbar P-90 Power'Tron in the bridge.

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High nut :: Gibson Custom Shop ES-330 stoptail prototype [5.9 lbs]

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High nut :: Gibson Custom Shop ES-330 stoptail prototype [5.9 lbs]

A very unique Gibson Custom Shop ES-330 stoptail prototype. 330's are full hollow with P90's, so one with a stoptail mounted directly to the top with no center block to reinforce it is quite amazing (vs a stock trapeze tailpiece). Here I'm chasing down the nut as it may have set up for slide for the previous owner (or the preference was to just leave it high).

Note I was told that this guitar was originally built for Nashville studio legend Brett Mason.

High nut with too much meat on top.

Strings lowered and excess nut removed.

Adjusting the high nut during the setup.  Subscribe to these daily videos over on the Chubbuck Guitars Youtube channel.

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Custom bridge for an underset neck :: 1961 Guild M-65 3/4 CW [4.7 lbs]

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Custom bridge for an underset neck :: 1961 Guild M-65 3/4 CW [4.7 lbs]

Custom bridge for an underset neck :: 1961 Guild M-65 3/4 CW [4.7 lbs]

A long time ago, someone sat on this guitar at a party and broke the neck joint.  The owner decided to repair it himself, but under-set the neck slightly.  The bridge I am replacing here is a tuneomatic that was too tall to get the strings down enough for decent action.  A new low profile rosewood bridge was fabricated to compenste for the low neck angle. I ended up inlaying a carbon fiber beam though most of the bottom of the new bridge for rigidity. The single P90 on this guy is nasty (i.e. awesome). And yes, another unfortunate casualty of the hardware store refinisher.

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