This great partscaster came to me for a clean up, a set up and taming some noisy pots. 

The first step was to take the strings off, strip back the hardware and give it a real clean.  Remove the saddles and polish up that bridge plate. 

Once clean, I taped off the fretboard so I could work on polishing up the frets. By now, you know the drill 1500 – 12000 grit paper. 

I took the control plate off to have a look at the pots and see what was going on.  They were scratchy, noisy pots but with a little electrical cleaner and a lot of twisting and turning the pots we were able to get there. 

Once the frets are glass like smooth get the strings on.  For this we went with D’addario 11 – 56 NYXL’s. I really love these strings, they really do last.  Once the strings are on its time to complete the set up, action, radius and intonation.

I’ll be seeing this guy again soon to swap over the bridge pickup to a Duncan hot rails.