So, the guitarist in my band Sekin has an Epiphone Special SG, he think's he's hot-sh*t and god's gift to music, but, he's definately not. So, anyway... every practice his guitar would short out a bit, at shows, too, and he never did anything about it. He thought it was normal, so, yesterday and practice the guitar stopped working and he was like, "it's just my output," and he kept trying to turn the screw on it, I was like, "doing that won't help, it doesn't matter," and he had the audacity to tell me, "this is MY guitar, YOU don't know what will work or not," suprisingly, it didn't work... and I ended up taking the guitar home.
I popped it open and saw that it definately wasn't the output, it was the selector switch. I decided to take it out of the circuit, since, my friend's curiosity got the best of him one day and he tried to cut the tape around the neck pickup and cut wires in it. (I tried to fix the humbucker, but, the wire's were too taut to reach each other) I fixed the guitar after an hour of trying to figure out how epiphone wired (it was crazy! the neck pickup didn't have a tone control, but, it did have volume) and it took about an hour to fix. No, here's the bad part...
He NEVER cleaned the guitar, not once in a year and a half. The fretboard was disgusting, so I busted out my mineral oil and washed it off. Underneath the strings was pretty bad, too... there was so much dust and dirt that it looked like the guitar was in an attic for two years. I cleaned it off, that took an hour. The action was terrible on it too, it took me an hour to fix that becuase the truss rod in it was BACKWARDS! I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. So, anyway...
I just don't get how someone can be so "dedicated" to music and think they're, "an awsome musician," if it takes a year of nagging for them to upgrade from their 6-watt Kustom and never take care of their guitar? I spent 4 hours on that guitar last night... and I'm not even done, yet. I still have to intonate, it's totally off...
I popped it open and saw that it definately wasn't the output, it was the selector switch. I decided to take it out of the circuit, since, my friend's curiosity got the best of him one day and he tried to cut the tape around the neck pickup and cut wires in it. (I tried to fix the humbucker, but, the wire's were too taut to reach each other) I fixed the guitar after an hour of trying to figure out how epiphone wired (it was crazy! the neck pickup didn't have a tone control, but, it did have volume) and it took about an hour to fix. No, here's the bad part...
He NEVER cleaned the guitar, not once in a year and a half. The fretboard was disgusting, so I busted out my mineral oil and washed it off. Underneath the strings was pretty bad, too... there was so much dust and dirt that it looked like the guitar was in an attic for two years. I cleaned it off, that took an hour. The action was terrible on it too, it took me an hour to fix that becuase the truss rod in it was BACKWARDS! I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. So, anyway...
I just don't get how someone can be so "dedicated" to music and think they're, "an awsome musician," if it takes a year of nagging for them to upgrade from their 6-watt Kustom and never take care of their guitar? I spent 4 hours on that guitar last night... and I'm not even done, yet. I still have to intonate, it's totally off...
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