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Hey guys.
Some of you may remember a thread I made a few months ago where I posted about a guitar that I'd been given that was in a pretty bad way: https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?289650-NGRPD-New-Guitar-Restoration-Project-Day
Anyways, to cut a long story short it's been to the tech and has come back with a clean bill of health after a fair bit of work
You can see on the pic below that the body needed a bit of TLC as it'd started to go a bit mouldy from sitting in a case in a cellar for many years
The neck and frets were VERY unclean and had started to go mouldy too
The tech said he had to physically scrape the dirt and mould off the body, neck and frets before he could even begin to condition it. After that and a bit of work on the neck and truss rod he said it was easier to work on than he originally expected.
Here's as it is now
And with a few of my other main guitars for 1 of my bands big gigs we did a few weeks back
I've only used the Explorer at 1 gig since I got it back, it's current hardcase is far too big and cumbersome to carry around normally so until I get a better case for it I'll keep it home, but it faired well for the 5 or 6 songs I used it for at the gig.
I'm quite a short and stout chap, ie short and fat
, so have never found bigger bodied guitars very user friendly but after a lot of tweaking with a strap I got it to where I'm happy with it. The pickups, an old MJ would Custom in the bridge and a Jazz in the neck faired well but I may end swapping them for something a bit hotter, maybe an EMG Het Set as I don't have EMGs in anything at the minute.
Some of you may remember a thread I made a few months ago where I posted about a guitar that I'd been given that was in a pretty bad way: https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?289650-NGRPD-New-Guitar-Restoration-Project-Day
Anyways, to cut a long story short it's been to the tech and has come back with a clean bill of health after a fair bit of work
You can see on the pic below that the body needed a bit of TLC as it'd started to go a bit mouldy from sitting in a case in a cellar for many years
The neck and frets were VERY unclean and had started to go mouldy too
The tech said he had to physically scrape the dirt and mould off the body, neck and frets before he could even begin to condition it. After that and a bit of work on the neck and truss rod he said it was easier to work on than he originally expected.
Here's as it is now
And with a few of my other main guitars for 1 of my bands big gigs we did a few weeks back
I've only used the Explorer at 1 gig since I got it back, it's current hardcase is far too big and cumbersome to carry around normally so until I get a better case for it I'll keep it home, but it faired well for the 5 or 6 songs I used it for at the gig.
I'm quite a short and stout chap, ie short and fat
, so have never found bigger bodied guitars very user friendly but after a lot of tweaking with a strap I got it to where I'm happy with it. The pickups, an old MJ would Custom in the bridge and a Jazz in the neck faired well but I may end swapping them for something a bit hotter, maybe an EMG Het Set as I don't have EMGs in anything at the minute.
