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

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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.

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

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New bone nut & saddle :: 2003 Garrison G40-CE [5.5 lbs]

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An interesting dreadnought cutaway in for a new bone nut and saddle.  All of the braces are made of carbon fiber.  Even the neck block is carbon fiber!  The neck is a bolt-on and one of the inserts split the stacked heel and needed to be repaired.  This guitar got two spots on the vlog - one video on the saddle and another on the nut.

Bass fret level :: Yamaha BB2000

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An older neck-through Yamaha bass in for a setup.  Along with the setup we stripped and oiled the neck and here I am leveling the frets.  This bass player uses the lowest action of any other basses that I work on so it is absolutely critical that there are no high frets.  The fret level video will be posted on the vlog later today.

Back rough out :: Chubbuck Mousa 003

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Last week I got a good start to roughing out the back on Mousa 003.  Still a ways to go on the outside before flipping it over and working the inside. I'm always amazed with how much ends up on the floor.  Below are both the rough carve and initial cleanup videos from the vlog.

Split heel :: Garrison G40-CE

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A Garrison dreadnought cutwaway with a split heel.  The neck construction is a 5 piece stacked heel and the heel cap laminate is split through the glue joint.  This is a bolt-on where the lower threaded insert in the heel lands dead-center of this glue joint and has separated the two.  I worked in some glue and closed the joint with a clamp.