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Worn out frets :: 2010 Chubbuck Mousa 001

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Worn out frets :: 2010 Chubbuck Mousa 001

Six years of heavy daily playing has this guy back in the shop for new frets.  I love how well this guitar has held up over the years, especially with how heavily Andy Mowatt gigs.  Below you can see it's little brother Mousa 003 on the bench just before the neck was glued to the body.

Videos from the daily vlog of pulling the old frets and then leveling, crowning and fret end dressing of the new ones.

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G&L ASAT Bass [9.2 lbs] :: setup

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G&L ASAT Bass [9.2 lbs] :: setup

An EMG loaded Tele body bass in for a setup.  The player is fairly heavy handed with a pick so the setup is a little higher than the previous run of basses coming through the shop.

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Custom Bartolini pickguard mount :: 2009 Eastman Pagelli PG2 [5.1 lbs]

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Custom Bartolini pickguard mount :: 2009 Eastman Pagelli PG2 [5.1 lbs]

A noisy pickup was found to be the cause of a loud buzz / hum while playing unless the tone was rolled completely down.  The pickup was both screwed and glued to the pickguard, so heat was required to remove the pickup.  The player chose to replace the Kent Armstrong pickup with a Bartolini 5J.  Unfortunately, Bartolini only offers a fingerboard mount so I needed to make a custom pickguard mounting bracket out of brass.

The fret ends were sharp in the cutaway so they were dressed and the guitar strung up with flats.

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K&K Devinity pickup & new frets :: 1939 Gibson L-7 [5.5 lbs]

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K&K Devinity pickup & new frets :: 1939 Gibson L-7 [5.5 lbs]

A big and beautiful 1939 L-7 archtop on the bench for a bunch of repairs.  You can see some of the work done here.  These repairs include new frets, new relic Waverly tuners, back binding repairs, side cracks and a K&K Devinity system pickup installation.  I must say that I'm not normally impressed with acoustic pickups but this newer K&K pickup sounds very warm and transparent.  I installed one of the older K&K archtop pickups in a 1940's Epiphone Emperor years ago and found it sounded very hollow and out of phase (even with correcting the phase with a preamp).  Archtops can be difficult to amplify acoustically.  After hearing this pickup I recommend that you give the K&K Devinity a try.

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Bass finger ramp :: Bossa OBJ5 5 string [8.6 lbs]

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Bass finger ramp :: Bossa OBJ5 5 string [8.6 lbs]

A Japanese Bossa five string bass in for a setup and a "finger ramp."  Finger ramps are an additional piece of wood fit in between the pickups to allow the player to have a consistent anchor point for their thumb   As you move towards the neck, the tone is fatter and playing towards the bridges yields a brighter attack.  The ramp helps the player to have more consistency with the right hand technique.

This is an absolutely beautiful bass that I had not heard of before.  Super versatile.  Originally the player had it set up with higher action and a high C (tuned EADGC).  We dropped the action down considerably and set it up with a low B (BEADG).

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