02/16/2024
On the bench the last few weeks...
Cheap replica EVH Frankenstein... salvaging just the body/pickguard, new Kramer-like neck, super distortion bridge pickup, Gotoh 1996T floyd rose trem, and a real good setup! Also assembled a customers parts guitar (all from Reverb), Genuine Fender Strat body, genuine Fender start neck w/ tuners (painted black interestingly, required a little fret work), installed neck, customer assembled most of the pickguard (interesting double-line routered) and installed/adjusted trem, looked and played real nice! And finally a cool "TIME" Flying V guitar (made in VT back in mid-late 80's?). Customer owns many. Its been played for sure... but still has a lot of life... only major issue was trem anchors eventually pulled thru the body's wood block, aka Anchor Blowout ;) (probably when the neck broke upon being dropped/etc... neck was reglued but looks ok). So the best more permanent solution was to router out the entire wood block and replace with a new rock-hard maple trem anchor block... and this I designed to lock into the sides of the guitar (like Lincoln blocks... as someone said.. lol). Very interesting and fun job :). Along with new anchor studs, a new bridge pickup, new electronics and a good setup, this will sing again!
