BRENTrocks
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So I started this new remodel job today. The customer is a guitar player, mainly acoustic, but he was showing me his main axes and he pulls out this 1979 ES 347!
He goes on to say, "I never play this thing. I cant remember the last time I had the strings changed?"
I offered to do a string change and a complete setup, no charge, and you would have thought I had given him a million dollars...lol
So I took it home today and proceeded to dive into it.
The first thing I noticed was that it had a couple high frets...took care of that. Overall, it was just dirty...the fretboard was nasty. The tuners were so loose I could unscrew them by hand. Intonation was way off. So I cleaned her up, put a new set of 10s on it, and now it plays pretty darn good!
This guitar has a really dark tone....not sure if its the pickups, or the guitar itself....my guess is the pickups. Its pretty heavy too...8.5-9 lbs
Its a pretty cool guitar, overall.
IMG_0098 by brent HENDERSON, on Flickr
IMG_0099 by brent HENDERSON, on Flickr
IMG_0100 by brent HENDERSON, on Flickr
IMG_0103 by brent HENDERSON, on Flickr
IMG_0104 by brent HENDERSON, on Flickr
IMG_0105 by brent HENDERSON, on Flickr
IMG_0107 by brent HENDERSON, on Flickr
He goes on to say, "I never play this thing. I cant remember the last time I had the strings changed?"
I offered to do a string change and a complete setup, no charge, and you would have thought I had given him a million dollars...lol
So I took it home today and proceeded to dive into it.
The first thing I noticed was that it had a couple high frets...took care of that. Overall, it was just dirty...the fretboard was nasty. The tuners were so loose I could unscrew them by hand. Intonation was way off. So I cleaned her up, put a new set of 10s on it, and now it plays pretty darn good!
This guitar has a really dark tone....not sure if its the pickups, or the guitar itself....my guess is the pickups. Its pretty heavy too...8.5-9 lbs
Its a pretty cool guitar, overall.
IMG_0098 by brent HENDERSON, on Flickr
IMG_0099 by brent HENDERSON, on Flickr
IMG_0100 by brent HENDERSON, on Flickr
IMG_0103 by brent HENDERSON, on Flickr
IMG_0104 by brent HENDERSON, on Flickr
IMG_0105 by brent HENDERSON, on Flickr
IMG_0107 by brent HENDERSON, on Flickr