An old mate asked me to service and mod some of his collection. This is about half of it I think and it’s epic. Especially the Epiphone Brent Hinds V – they’re amazing, if you can get your hands on one.

The Epiphone V was set up in D standard with 12-60 big boy strings.

This amazing LP Standard needed a fret levelling and was setup with 10-52 in E standard. I also removed the chrome pickup covers and cleaned up the wax to reveal black bobbins.

Fender P-bass had a Hipshot BT2 installed for that quick drop tune. Also fret levelled, then setup with 45-100 D’Addario XL in E standard. It’s a really nice playing bass.

An Ibanez Roadstar II from the late 80’s and it’s the bass you play in your stormtrooper armour. Unfortunately she has a slightly warped neck, so it was slim odds to get this in shape. Two fret levelling attempts later and a many setup adjustments, and she co-operates in E standard tuning but not in the lower D standard asked for by the customer unfortunately. There is some buzz coming from the higher frets in lower tuning. The solution for this is a replacement neck or a refret.

The Jim Root telecaster setup great in D standard, again with big boy 12-60 ropes. This is how Jim would want it. Suffering from a bit of fret sprout, which was tidied up with some careful filing, fine abrasives and polishing.

Setup with 45-135 D’Addario, the Squier Jazz V is a superb slab. Squier and Epiphone might be some of the best made budget instruments at the moment.

The Gibson CM had the most work: fret levelling, swapping out the old robot tuners for a set of Gotoh SG381, removal of one pot and installation of a DPDT on-on-on switch for series/parallel/coil split selection on a freshly installed Bare Knuckle Warpig pickup. Also a wax coat and our usual setup procedure.