Blog - Haze Guitars

Ahh… Classical guitars.

Gibson's PCB-based control layouts get a lot of grief — some of it fair, most of it not.

Neck resets can be tricky to explain in the abstract, but a travel guitar that came in for a setup this week provides a really clear illustration of what's actually happening — and why it needs to happen.

Lining up a replacement neck sounds straightforward until a clamp gets in the way of your centre-line check.

Here I'll cover a workshop project that got more attention than I expected — a custom-built articulated lighting rig I put together for the repair bench.

This is the second part of repairing shrunken guitar body binding — specifically working around the front of the guitar and navigating the tricky area where the binding disappears under the neck heel.

Binding shrinkage is one of those repairs that looks simple until you're in the middle of it.

It’s a relatively quick one this week but it’s one where I get to disagree with people and we all like that, don’t we?

Last week, I talked about pickup body mounting, and foam, and whatnot.

Human brains are amazing things.

While duct tape might hold the universe together, foam is what's holding a hell of a lot of our pickups up.

A slight delay in international travel has meant that a band has dropped off a heap of guitars at the end of the day instead of the start of the day and has left me a little pressed for time.

I was going to move away from the electrical stuff for a bit but, after last week’s chat about pots and volume controls, it seemed to make sense to talk about your tone control.

Quick recap.

A while back, we talked about shielding the cavities and pickguard of a guitar to help quiet it and prevent it picking up noise from the environment.

Earlier this week, I hit on a problem that I've seen a couple of times with the trem tailpiece of a Jazzmaster (same applies to the Jaguar).

Ok.

Strobe tuners are fantastic—accurate to .1 of a cent.

Last time we talked about the possibilities for spot-levelling a single high fret so that it was brought down to the height of its neighbours and ceased to be a cause of buzzing or choking notes.

My job involves a lot of dealing with uneven frets.

Loose fingerboard inlay this week.