duhvoodooman
Addicted to solder....
I did manage to slip in one "enhancement", but concentrated mostly on some overdue guitar maintenance & string changing this weekend. I restrung 5 of my guitars, including three of them with rosewood necks, Those also got a good fretboard cleaning and conditioning with the cleaner & conditioner in the Dunlop 65 maintenance kit I picked up a while back. I also thoroughly wiped down each guitar but stopped short of doing a wax job on each. Maybe next time.
I'm amazed how much better each guitar sounds. I probably should have done this a couple of months ago on a couple of the guitars--and about 6 months ago on one or two! Yikes--you forget how good new strings sound when you're a casual player and only change them occasionally. Nice and crisp, ringing tone with much better bottom definition. I gotta be more diligent about this stuff!! :thwap:
The one new thing I installed was a set of vintage-style Grover tuners on my Epi '56 Goldtop. I never liked the stock ones and got these upgrades on eBay a few months ago, but figured I'd hold off on installing them until the next time I changed the strings. So last night, I put 'em on. It's a little traumatic to take a drill to a guitar, but I took my time and had no problems. I like the look--adds to the vintage vibe of the '56 GT. And they operate more smoothly and the guitar is easier to tune accurately now--not as much "flat'n'sharp" hunting around, which I found myself doing with the stock tuners.
Here's a couple of pics. They don't look as light as the close-up makes them appear, nor as dark as the full guitar shot. They're that hard-to-describe olive-cream-light gray color and go well with the gold finish:
I'm amazed how much better each guitar sounds. I probably should have done this a couple of months ago on a couple of the guitars--and about 6 months ago on one or two! Yikes--you forget how good new strings sound when you're a casual player and only change them occasionally. Nice and crisp, ringing tone with much better bottom definition. I gotta be more diligent about this stuff!! :thwap:
The one new thing I installed was a set of vintage-style Grover tuners on my Epi '56 Goldtop. I never liked the stock ones and got these upgrades on eBay a few months ago, but figured I'd hold off on installing them until the next time I changed the strings. So last night, I put 'em on. It's a little traumatic to take a drill to a guitar, but I took my time and had no problems. I like the look--adds to the vintage vibe of the '56 GT. And they operate more smoothly and the guitar is easier to tune accurately now--not as much "flat'n'sharp" hunting around, which I found myself doing with the stock tuners.
Here's a couple of pics. They don't look as light as the close-up makes them appear, nor as dark as the full guitar shot. They're that hard-to-describe olive-cream-light gray color and go well with the gold finish:
