Has your guitar become a little difficult to play sometimes? Does it sound, “out of tune”? Are the strings too high off the neck?
“Tune Up” Your Guitar!
Has your guitar become a little difficult to play sometimes?
Does it sound, “out of tune”? Are the strings too high off the neck? Is your neck warped or bowed? Are the tuning gears difficult to turn? Are moving parts rusty? It could be that your guitar needs a tune up!
A hard to play guitar could be a roadblock to your success as a musician. If you want your guitar to play better and faster, let Haywire prep your guitar. Get ready with our ” 8 Point Gig Ready Process”.
It’s necessary getting it ready for your Gig! This is the same process that we perform on all of our new instruments. It will put your “baby” back in shape. This allows you to play fast and in tune up and down the fret board like never before!
Bring your guitar back from the dead with a well-deserved tune up from Haywire Custom Guitars!
This includes cleaning the electronics, the fret board, tightening any loose hardware, adding the proper washers to the input jack. Then tightening it to make sure it stays on. Next, re-stringing, adjusting the truss rod, cleaning and adjusting nut slots, set string height and intonation! See our whole process below.
Point 1: 4 – axis alignment of the guitar neck
We check each guitar neck to be sure it is true and straight. It will bring proper alignment on all axis. This step ensures proper action. It allows for more accurate and easier guitar tuning, playing and set-up in the following steps.
2: Inspect and lube the guitar tuning gears
Before installing the guitar tuning gears, each one is checked thoroughly. Each tuning gear is adjusted so that there is no play in the mechanism. We’ll then lubricate to insure smooth and even movement to make your guitar tune accurately.
3: Potting the guitar pickups
We dip the pickups in hot wax to reduce squeal and unwanted guitar feedback.
4: Prep the guitar body
Upon installing the guitar electronic components, we take great care.
We will see that all wires are properly routed, spaced, and grounded. This will ensure years of trouble free service with your guitar.
5: Level and polish the frets
This insures that all of the guitar frets are level, eliminating any possibility of fret buzz due to unevenness.
6: Radius the guitar strings
Most guitar necks have a contour over the top of the neck called the radius. We adjust the strings to make sure the height of each string follows the contour of the guitar neck radius.
7: Adjusting the overall guitar string height and the action
Once we set the contour and radius of the guitar strings. Next, it’s time to adjust the overall height of the strings. They will be consistent from the top of the frets to the strings.
8: Set the guitar intonation
We do this twice. We set the intonation is set two times with a 24 hour “seat-in” period.
This will allow the guitar to properly re-seat to the new adjustments.
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