Gibson ES-339 fretwork
Yesterday and today I've been levelling and re-dressing the frets on my ES-339. Brand new the frets are probably twice as high as I'd like them to be, causing pitch problems especially with lighter guage strings. Here are a few photos from the first round of fretwork. I'll probably take 3 or 4 passes to slowly work the frets to the right spot for me.
More coats
I got to sanding the body of the blue guitar to prep it for laquering and rubbed some spots down to the wood in the process; so more coats of blue paint today. I will do a few coats over the next few days, and the laquering process will have to get pushed back.
In the mean-time - I'm levelling and crowning frets. I will still be re-fretting in a week or so, but it's nice to play around and warm up since I haven't done a total re-fret before.
In between all that I got to working on a headstock logo too.
Neck Refinishing
This neck came to me looking reeeeaally rough. So I'm sanding down to bare wood and re-laquering. But what I'm really excited about is the opportunity to do all new fret work! I don't have all the 'right' tools but I have enough, and enough uncut fret wire to do one guitar is only about $10!!!
Assembled for test fit
After I made a new bridge and nut I finished putting everything together for a test fit. It'll all need to be removed in 12 days so I can laquer the body. The polish on the neck feels great to play, and the wide aperature single coil pickup has a unique and fun character to it.
Curing paint
The third coat of paint is on the body, and the neck has been sanded, lacquered and polished to shine!
Primer
Started priming the new project today. I'm still scouting for the color I want for paint.
Dan The Automator
I'm newly listening to:
Artist: Dan The Automator
Album: Deltron 3030 - The Instrumentals
Track: memory loss
Bassman
This is Bob's beautiful 60's Bassman amp in process of repair. This was a lot of fun (vintage always is)
Done:
- Deeeep clean of internal parts and circuitry to remove evidence of pests....
- Replaced a damaged standy switch.
- Changed burnt-out RCA power tubes with two new Svetlanas.
