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Someone suggested a 'family picture' of my guitars in a post yesterday. Here are pics of all that are not disassembled and waiting for parts or tools.

Lots of gunk on this one to clean up. They sure did a good job of cloning the Fender back in the '70s. I have a extra Tele neck for a project down the line and it fits the neck pocket on this Drifter nice and snug. Did get a surprise when I pulled the bridge cover off. Not your typical Strat...

A wide gulf in the spectrum of packing between the two guitars that arrived today. Both arrived intact, thank goodness. I found a 2021 Player Stratocaster in Surf Pearl a few days ago on the Guitar Center website. It matches up perfectly with the 2021 Telecaster in the same color that I bought...

It was advertised as having a small crack near the headstock on a Les Paul clone. When I opened the box I found this. I am guessing they left it under full string tension when they shipped it. Have a email in to the returns department to see what the options are. Darn shame too, as it is a...

I had originally planned to give my niece and her fiancee the 1960's Japanese starter guitar that I thought I had gotten up and running again. Well it turned out the neck gave way again and raised the action WAY too high. It has no truss rod and needs one, badly. So that will be a return project...

I have been doing a lot of work clearing out the garage early in the mornings about three times a week instead of working on guitars much. I will have to post a pic of the garage after I am done with the clearing and again when I get the workshop set up. I also have been doing work on guitar...

The Yamaha GA-10 amp that will be going to my niece along with the Japanese Sorrento starter guitar is getting a speaker upgrade today. The original speaker is listed as 12cm or 4.75inch, but that counts the metal speaker frame. It is actually 4.5inch of speaker. It will be replaced by a Jensen...

Was browsing the Fender Blues Junior amps on Ebay a couple nights ago and saw a 'local pickup only' auction for a Blues Junior III about 30 minutes from me. The 'Buy-It-Now' price was $375 but they were accepting offers. I offered $350 and it became mine. Went and picked it up today and it came...

Finally sat down and and finished the Kingston tonight that I have been rehabbing off and on between parts deliveries and other projects (namely the van). I started with the neck, as I usually do. The original frets on this one were between 17 and 24 thousandths depending on where they were...

In my last post where I introduced the Epiphone Junior guitar and the amps I purchased this last week I talked about modding the amps. I took apart one of the two Yamaha amps and was thinking about using as much of the old amp cabinet as possible. After digging around in the garage I found some...

The mass of Saharan dust reached Texas today. We are forecast for hot and hazy conditions the rest of the week. There are a lot allergens attached to that dust going by the sinus attack that bloomed as soon as I got up this morning. Going to be a lovely week with poor air quality conditions...

The list of projects keeps getting longer. After discovering the Goodwill and Salvation Army Ebay sites I have a couple more projects being added to the list. My $87 Epiphone Les Paul Junior and the first of two Yamaha GA-10 solid state amplifiers came in today. The Junior is missing the high E...

Back when I was working on the Japanese Sorrento starter guitar I installed a Les Paul style Tune-O-Matic bridge in the proper place on the body so it could have good intonation. That worked well but the bridges for Les Paul guitars are set up with a 12 inch radius. The Sorrento was a 9.5 inch...

I have been trying for a few days to get my best friend that I have known since high school to go to the ER and get checked out. He has been having double vision and headaches for almost a week. He went to a optometrist who obviously was not much. Since it has not gotten any better he finally...

This one is 2 or 3 down the list, but I will eventually be posting about it. A Memphis branded Japanese P-bass clone from the '80s or '90s. There was just something about the gift card 'repair' of the broken pick guard. :LOL:

I do like the simplicity of the circuit for a single pickup guitar. This is the wiring diagram and electronics setup for my '60s Japanese starter guitar I have been tinkering with on and off for the last couple months. I think we are getting to the home stretch. I like to use as much of the legs...

This was dropped into my feed by the Facebook algorithm. Not for the faint of heart.

In a way, Fender guitars are a bit like AR rifles. You can take various parts bought separately and put them together to make a functional guitar/rifle. That is what I did with this Jazzmaster. Been gathering parts for a couple months now, and finished assembling it today after getting some...

Been working on the '60s Sorrento Japanese starter guitar off and on lately. It is the one with a steel reinforced non-adjustable neck that has excessive relief and action height. My first attempt at compression fretting to try and straighten the neck failed since I could not find frets with a...

Thanks to SW702 for the opportunity to buy a second set of Sandersons. I just got through putting it on my K22. Now I have them on both of my Target Masterpieces. Guess which two are going to the range next time out?