Guitar Modifications & Upgrades
Hot rod your guitar!
There’s a huge amount of quality guitar parts available for electric, acoustic and bass guitars why stick with your stock parts? Proper fitting and compatibility guaranteed!
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Pickup upgrades
Breathe some new life into your guitar with an upgraded set of pickups
Pickup Potting
Cure nasty microphonic pickup squealing with a traditional wax potting service
Electronics Modding
Add some electrickery into your guitar for new and improved sounds. Coil Tapping, phase, series / parallel, kill switch and custom switching options are all available
Stock Wiring Upgrades
Just by upgrading the components in your guitar you can really open up your guitar’s sound. Keep your guitar functioning exactly the same way just with better parts. You’ll be surprised at how much better my upgraded components will sound!
Shielding
Kill unwanted hum coming from your guitar – essential for high gain environments
Onboard Effects Pedal Installation!
More nutty ideas… You an mount an effects pedal into a guitar relatively easily therefore getting to use your fingertips to adjust effect parameters
Acoustic pickup installation / upgrades
Time to plug your acoustic guitar in? acoustic pickup system installation service done ‘ere!
>Acoustic Pickup System Installations
Custom pickguard Cutting
Spice up your guitar with a custom scratch plate / pickguard. Cut in whatever pickup configuration, right or left handed and in a variety of materials and colours
Premium Bound Pickguard Making
Authentic replicas for your archtop made just the way they were back in the day. A variety of binding and fill options are avilable. All completely handmade one-offs.
>Bound scratchplate Making Service
Fitting New Machineheads
Ditch those flakey, string-snapping tuners. Guitar machine head fitting and upgrading service to cure tuning problems
>Proper Tuner Installation Service
Bridge & Tremolo Upgrades
A crucial part of your guitar’s tone and tuning stability. Could you do with a better sound or perhaps you want to do mad dive-bombimg with a Floyd Rose tremolo system!
Hand Made Bone Nut
Have a bespoke made bone nut made for electric, acoustic or bass guitars for optimum playability and tuning stability
>Cutting a new bone nut from blank
Hand Cut Bone Saddle
Don’t have a bone saddle on your acoustic? You’re missing out big time! Made bespoke to your guitar
Wonder-Tone Neck Pocket Shims
Neck shims are needed to adjust the angle of a guitar’s bolt on neck. I make them properly allowing maximum coupling between the neck pocket an the neck heel for maximum tone!
Bolt-on neck reinforcement
The most important joint on a guitar needs to be top notch. My bolt-on reinforcements make your guitar stronger and sound better too! Upgrade your screw on neck to an actual BOLT ON using stainless steel bolts. Superior tone from a much improved neck joint
Tremolo Blocking
Improve your tuning stability and tone by blocking off your unused tremolo. Available in 3 flavours: 1 way blocked, 2 way blocked or just flattened to the body
Bass Guitar De-Fret
Fancy turning your fret-full bass into a fret-less? Fretted to fret less bass conversion service now available
I think I got them all there.. if there’s some wacky modification you can think of I’m up for it!
-Jack
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