Guitar restoration.

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Guitar restoration. May 22, 2009 1:53:22 GMT 1

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Post by poyks on May 22, 2009 1:53:22 GMT 1

This was a nice little challenge; the restoration of a rather battered, rusty and teenagerised electric guitar smothered in stickers, scratches and dents. When you plugged it into an amp you just got a horrible loud humming noise.

After completely stripping the guitar down to it's component parts, I spent some time restoring every single piece. The body was filled, sanded and resprayed, and all the electrics rewired and tested. I then spent some time setting up the intonation and string action, and it's turned out to be a very playable nice sounding instrument!

Lots of hard work, but I'm well pleased with the result.

Here are before and after pictures;

BEFORE;

AFTER;

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poyks Guest	Guitar restoration. May 23, 2009 1:22:28 GMT 1 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by poyks on May 23, 2009 1:22:28 GMT 1 Ta mate, yes the metalwork was a challenge to clean up with all the delicate plastic surrounds. Lot's of polishing with T-cut.

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poyks Guest	Guitar restoration. May 24, 2009 16:11:05 GMT 1 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by poyks on May 24, 2009 16:11:05 GMT 1 hehe, ta. I do remember doing similarly terrible things to guitars when I was younger.

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