Neck pickup cavity :: Chubbuck Mousa 003

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Here is the Mousa 003 hollowbody build on the bench last month getting it's neck pickup cavity routed out for a humbucker.  Check out the video below from the vlog.

2009 Nikos Apollonio Bouzouki [3.8 lbs] :: setup

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An Irish bouzouki in for some setup tweaks, with Brazilian rosewood hand built by Nikos Apollonio in Rockport, ME.

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Neck & body are now one :: Chubbuck Mousa 003

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An exciting milestone in guitar building is when the neck is glued up to the body.  This glue-up is from a few weeks ago and soon Mousa 003 will be going into the spray booth.  I can not wait to get the first coats of finish on this guitar.  Check out the videos below for the neck glue-up.

Shim saddle :: Ibanez GA6CE-AM [4.5 lbs]

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Low action and loose frets plagued this nylon string with all kinds of buzzes.  The loose fret ends were mainly along the treble side of the fingerboard.  Many frets could be tapped down while one needed to be clamped and glued.  The saddle was shimmed up along with a truss rod adjustment (on a classical?!).  Tightening the the output jack finished up the setup.

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2014 Martin Custom X-Series X1-000E [4.6 lbs] :: loose jack

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A Martin in for a loose endpin jack that needed the internal nut adjusted to properly allow the external nut to be tightened.  The internal nut on the jack is the key to getting a nice tight fit in the tail block and still allow the instrument cable to properly seat in the jack.  If the internal nut is too close to the outside of the jack, the external nut will not allow your cable's plug to get "all up in there."

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