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Heywood Guitar Doctor

148 Bury Old Road, Heywood, United Kingdom
Local Service

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Guitar Set-up Service - adjust truss rod, adjust nut, set intonation, dress and polish frets, adjust pickups check electrics, balance tremelo, re-string and tune, clean and polish, electrical repairs. Guitar setup, electrical fault finding and repair, pickup swaps.

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I'm off galavanting for a few days but any enquiries will be hopefully answered. Message me here or text to 07894 077965 or email denis.robinson7@ntlworld.com.

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This is Jack McDougall's ( from band The Monsoons ) Squier Strat in for a bit of work. This was an interesting one and a bit of a challenge that required a complete re-wire and new switch, in addition to the usual fingerboard and fretwork and setup. Re-strung with 10's and standard tuning.

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Ben Nield's Fender USA Strat. Its had a treble bleed added, treble control added to bridge pickup, wiring checked and re-soldered, switch contacts cleaned, jack socket contacts adjusted and tightened, fingerboard edge rolled and board oiled, frets polished, tremolo set for downward motion only, new set of 10's fitted, full setup and a clean and polish.

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Gavin Everett's Taylor electro-acoustic in for a re-string and a setup check. Back of neck has been de-glossed, nut tickled, saddles and truss rod adjust to improve action.

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Jason Smith's Gibson LP Standard in for a setup, fingerboard scrape, cure a buzz on the top E, re-string and a clean and polish.

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Dan Heston's ( from band Heston ) Silvertone Cracked Mirror in for a fettle. Its had the selector switch replaced with a heavy duty jobby, the usual fingerboard and fret work, electrics checked out, re-strung with 11's tuned to E flat, full setup and a clean and polish. They are individual pieces btw, not a photo thingy. On reflection a really cracking guitar 😉

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Peter Durnan's Fender Strat in for a setup. The fret ends and fingerboard edges have been smoothed and polished, fret tops polished, truss rod and saddles adjusted to achieve a medium low action, intonation set, pickup heights adjusted accordingly, tremolo balanced to be fully floating, nut slots deepened to give lower action at first fret and prevent string snagging, new set of 10's strings and a clean and polish.

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Dave Speechley's Ibanez in for some work. Its had the fingerboard edges and fret ends smoothed and polished, fret tops polished, truss rod and saddles adjusted to slightly lower action, loose jack socket tightened and squirted, pots squirted, tuners posts tightened, pickups adjusted, neck bolts tightened, intonation set, missing saddle bolts replaced, new 10's strings installed and a clean and polish.

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Paul Wheeldon's Gibson Les Paul Goldtop, and very nice it is too. Its had the the fingerboard edges rolled and fret ends smoothed, fret tops polished and board oiled, truss rod tweaked, action and intonation adjusted, pickups adjusted, general clean and polish and re-strung with 9's.

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Lee Davenport's Gibson SG. A new bridge has been fitted and saddles notched, intonation re-set and truss rod set to enable neck relief for both standard tuning and occasional full step down tuning, scratchy sounding pots squirted. Clean and a polish.

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Peter Belsten's other Takemine. It had un-even string sound balance through the amp. Saddle and piezo striped and cleaned and re-balanced. New strings and a clean and polish.

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Peter Belsten's Fender Modern Player Tele. Its had a new switch and a full setup, new 10's strings and scrub n polish.

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