Haywire Custom Guitars 8 Point Gig Ready Guitar Process
The “8-Point Gig-Ready Guitar Process” is a proprietary process developed by Haywire Custom Guitars designed to ensure their custom-built guitars are exceptionally playable and ready for professional use right out of the box.
Here’s a breakdown of the 8 points:
4-Axis Alignment of the Guitar Neck: The guitar neck is meticulously checked and adjusted to be true and straight on all axes. This ensures proper action, tuning stability, and facilitates easier setup in subsequent steps.
Inspect and Lube Tuning Gears: Each tuning gear is thoroughly inspected, adjusted to eliminate play, and lubricated for smooth and accurate tuning.
Potting the Pickups: Pickups are dipped in hot wax to reduce squeal and unwanted feedback.
Prep the Guitar Body: When installing electronic components, wires are routed, spaced, and grounded properly to ensure long-term reliability.
Level and Polish Frets: Frets are leveled to eliminate buzzing caused by unevenness and then polished for smooth playability.
Radius the Strings: String height is adjusted to match the contour or radius of the guitar neck.
Adjust Overall String Height and Action: The overall height of the strings from the frets is adjusted for comfortable and optimal playability.
Set the Guitar Intonation: Intonation is set twice, with a 24-hour “seat-in” period between adjustments to allow the guitar to settle.
The “8-Point Gig-Ready Guitar Process” focuses on ensuring the guitar plays comfortably, stays in tune, and sounds its best, making it “gig-ready” for any professional musician.
Haywire Custom Guitars 8 Point Gig Ready Guitar Process
Point 1: 4-axis alignment of the guitar neck
Each guitar neck is checked and adjusted to be sure it is true and straight to ensure proper alignment on all axis. This step ensures proper action and allows for more accurate and easier guitar tuning, playing and set-up in the following steps.
Point 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. They are then lubricated to insure smooth and even movement to make your guitar tune accurately.
Gig Ready
Point 3: Potting the guitar pickups
We dip the pickups in hot wax to reduce squeal and unwanted guitar feedback.
Point 4: Prep the guitar body
Upon installing the guitar electronic components, great care is taken to ensure that all wires are properly routed, spaced, and grounded to ensure years of trouble free service with your guitar to get it Gig Ready.
checked and adjusted
Point 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.
Point 6: Radius the guitar strings
Most guitar necks have a contour over the top of the neck called the radius. Furthermore, we adjust the strings to make sure the height of each string follows the contour of the guitar neck radius to get it Gig Ready.
Point 7: Adjusting the overall guitar string height and the action
Once we set the contour and radius of the guitar strings, it’s time to adjust the overall height of the strings from the top of the frets to the bottom of the guitar strings.
adjust the strings
Point 8: Set the guitar intonation
This step is done twice. Most of all, the intonation is set two times with a 24 hour “seat-in” period in between to allow the guitar to properly re-seat to the new adjustments to get an “8-Point Gig-Ready Guitar”.
