Chubbuck Guitars / Kevin Chubbuck, making & repairing guitars in an old building just north of Boston, Massachusetts.
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tuner replace
This guy was finally picked up after 2 years (!). I reglued the bridge, repaired a split in the headstock and glued up a loose tailblock-to-top seam. There was also a loose top brace and the undersaddle pickup was humming so it needed to be replaced.
Quick video originally posted on my snapchat (@chubbuckguitars) and shared to IG:
2002 Gibson ES-333 [8.4 lbs] :: intermittent pickup & broken tuners
The neck pickup was cutting in and out on this hollowbody so that usually means you have fish the electronics out through the f-hole or pickup rout to clean / repair. To my surprise I found an access cover in the back! This is the first Gibson hollowbody with an access panel to come across my bench. As much as I don't like the idea of them on hollows, it makes resoldering this broken neck pickup lead and cleaning the pots much, much easier. The bass-side tuners were also previously repaired by someone supergluing the covers. This is always a temporary fix and the time had come to replace them. Tuning is now much more stable with a new set of tuners.
This circa 1990's Epiphone Sheraton II was stripped down and built back up with premium components. The original lifeless dark-toned pickups were swapped for Lollar Imperial low-wind humbuckers. The new wiring harness consists of Bourns 500K Premium Series sealed pots, Emerson Custom 0.022 µf paper-in-oil caps and a Switchcraft 3-way switch and output jack. Even the tuners were replaced with 18:1 Grover Rotomatics which installed without modification. A new unbleached bone nut and setup for DR Pure Blues 11-50 strings round out the upgrades.
1966 Vox Bobcat [4.9 lbs] :: missing tuners ... and everything else
This 3 pickup 335-style guitar is a "husk-only" project (no parts). The owner was initially looking to restore this guitar but is working out a deal to trade for a Vox Lynx body (same guitar, 2 pickups). We decided to just install new tuners at this time. Glad to find that Grover Sta-Tite tuners install with no major modifications required other than slight reaming to fit the press-in bushings on the face and tightening the fit of the mounting screws.
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