(Used) Guitars Done Right

Yes – I am open during the Virus Crisis, but adhering to social distancing & other measures to protect my customers.

I’m just a guitar tech who likes to make inexpensive guitars play and sound as good as the pricier ones.
I won’t sell a guitar until I’ve checked it out end to end; leveled frets & dressed fret ends; professionally setup the guitar to factory specs; installed & stretched new (quality) strings; tuned and intonated so that the instrument is worthy of the time and effort you will put into it.

Dean’s “Colt Bigsby” Is Worth A Look!

by Hank | May 24, 2020 | Blog, Guitar News | 0 Comments

Even if it weren't so beautiful, the Colt Bigsby would be worth trying out just to see how those magnetic pickups sound with the piezo kicked in, through the dual output jacks! Three knobs give you separate volumes for piezo and magnetic (passive) and apparently a...

$71 Glarry Telecaster Setup & Compare to Fender

It's not often I get asked to do a $60 setup on a $70 guitar. Most of what this guitar needed,...

Corona Virus & Guitars

So yeah, gigs have disappeared, but this thing is affecting all guitar owners - not just...

Squier P-Bass – How Cheap Can Fender Get???

I don't have much time this morning, so I chose a guitar that looked like it wouldn't need very...

Used Guitar Shopping on the Cheap

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I'd posted a bass guitar on Marketplace for $120. I'd checked it out end to end, checked every fret for level from E to G then polished the frets with rouge and a dremel tool; filed nut slots down to spec (they're always too high), set the relief and verified the...

String Height Measuring – Capo or No?

Blog, How To

This morning, I had a customer tell me that I'm wrong to measure string height at the 17th fret (Strat) with a capo on the 1st fret and stated that his Fender manual doesn't say to use a capo for anything other than setting relief. Lots of debate on the forums about...

Don’t Clean Your Pickups???

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I love GuitarWorld.com but dang! I wish they'd stop selling voo-doo and pixie dust! Their latest article about Britney Howard's belief that filthy pickups are the key to her sound is a real disservice to its readers and guitar players everywhere. That crud can corrode...

Stupidest Guitar Article of the Week

Blog, Guitar News

it's title? The best electric guitars under $500: 10 top choice electrics for smaller budgets- guitarworld.com Despite the somewhat redundant wording of the title, the article promised to be an interesting read - and it was, but not for their intended reasons. The...

Superbowl Firebird & Shakira’s Other Custom Guitars

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Shakira stunned the Super Bowl with a Swarovski crystal Gibson Firebird - but she has a surprising history of dazzling custom guitars. From a Fender Mustang to a Yamaha Revstar, Shakira is doing her part to revive the guitar's popularity. Read more..

Andy Gill, influential guitarist with Gang of Four, dies aged 64

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The Gang of Four heralded Gill as “one of the best to ever do it … we’ll remember him for his kindness and generosity, his fearsome intelligence, bad jokes, mad stories and endless cups of darjeeling tea. He just so happened to be a bit of a genius too.” Gill’s guitar...