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Just going to loosen the strings.
Once sufficiently loosened, just cut them with side-cutters.
Remove the strings and we're just going to take off the bridge.
Start cleaning it with steel wool.
Mark up the pickups.
It's always best to go with the grain
Not against it if you can avoid it.
Just because this way, it won't scratch the timber.
We're now going to use a fret-guard and polish the frets.
We're now going to oil the fingerboard.
Rub it in...
Just give that 20 odd seconds or so. Then get rid of it all.
Polish the entire body now using a formula which is water-based
Including the headstock.
We're going to tighten up the machine heads now as they're a little bit loose around the nuts here.
So, now that it's sufficiently cleaned, it's ready to be re-strung.
We're just going to stretch the strings in a bit.
At this point we tune the guitar to pitch, which would normally be possible but..
this particular guitar has got the jack fallen into its cavity. So, we need to basically remove it and re-seat it.
basically remove it and re-seat it. Just use a screwdriver to pull it out - there's no danger in this
None of the electronics are live.
When a jack has fallen in, it's usually best to test it
because sometimes the spring on the jack itself might be starting to fail.
That's fine.
Now, it's best to tune the guitar as if you were playing it
because the pressure a neck rest will put on the guitar will actually affect it.
This neck is a fraction over-bowed.
The reason why we do this with the strings at tension and in tune
is because the strength of that pulling across the neck is actually moving the neck up or down in a certain manner.
So, we need to adjust the neck a bit to accommodate for that.
That should be all it requires...
Yep, that's pretty good.
Now we're going to set the action - the height of strings from the fingerboard
Which is done here at the bridge assembly
You can see here that we've got quite a bit of room off the frets - especially around the 12th - 15th fret
so we're going to want to bring that down just a fraction.
That should be all it requires.
Now we're just going to give it a quick play test, to make sure that there's very minimal fret buzz
Start on open, and just go up systematically.
Final step, now that the guitar is set-up is intonation.
Intonation is adjusted by the length of the nut to the bridge assembly
The saddles, we'll be able to individually adjust to address the finer points.
We'll check the tuning, open...
...and we'll check it at 12th fret. So we can see that it's slightly flat
which means that the string is slightly too long, so we need to shorten it.
That's all good.
We'll just give it a final wipe-down and it's ready to be given back to the customer.