• From: Renfrewshire, Scotland
  • Registered: 2006-03-04
  • Posts: 1,359

Topic: Guitar refurbishment/service

I have an old dusty electric guitar hiding away in my attic somewhere. I have recently got back into playing my acoustic and was wondering if it would be worth getting the old electric cleaned up.

It is an SG copy of some kind; the electrics(i.e. knobs and switches) need to be cleaned and the pickups are kinda falling out. Apart from that, as far as I remember, the fretboard, action and intonation are good. Can't decide on whether to spend the money on getting it fixed up or buy a new one or, indeed, just stick to the acoustic.

Has anyone done anything like this and is it worth it?


Cheers,


Al

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  • From: Pico Rivera, Calif. U.S.A.
  • Registered: 2006-10-26
  • Posts: 785

Re: Guitar refurbishment/service

I do it all the time.  A big part of my guitar addiction is buying and refurbishing guitars. The practice keeps me in cash flow paying for my habit of building guitars. I resell them and do repairs.

It all depends on how much money you want to spend on repairs, also if you can do the repairs yourself. 

How much can a few screws cost (loose pickups) $5.00(US). You can clean it up yourself and put on a new set of strings. Use it as a corner kicker (a guitar than can be grabbed and played at any time of the day that you don't mind if you ding it) until you can save up the cash for a well made guitar. Or you can always upgrade the hardware and put a new set of pickups and hot rod it.


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  • From: Renfrewshire, Scotland
  • Registered: 2006-03-04
  • Posts: 1,359

Re: Guitar refurbishment/service

Hey thanks bootlegger, you have talked me into having a wee go myself. Like you say, how much can a couple of screws cost and a squirt of WD40 cost. Now all I need to do is dig it out the attic. The thing only cost me 70 quid(even if it was 25 years ago).


Cheers.

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  • From: Pico Rivera, Calif. U.S.A.
  • Registered: 2006-10-26
  • Posts: 785

Re: Guitar refurbishment/service

No problem glad I could help. Try www.stewmac.com there are some shop repairs listed and the project guitar website. You'll find alot of helpful information. Or if you have any question that I may be able to answer send me a private message and I'll send you my email address. Also don't use WD-40 it stays wet and will collect dust turning in to grime. Use contact cleaner (made for electronic use) and on you machine heads use graphite.


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