yamaha – Guitar Set-ups and Repairs, Aylesbury

Yamaha RGX

This fella needed some real TLC. It arrived to me with a couple of strings on it, (which were totally corroded) and the wiring was problematic – no signal coming out of it.

The body was covered in dust, and the fretboard was caked in gunk… Nice! Strangely this is a job I quite like doing because the reward is a fresh, brand new-looking fingerboard that it’s owner hasn’t seen on this guitar for quite some time!

After a complete clean up, tightening of nuts and simple wiring fixes, the guitar was ready for a regular setup and now she plays like a dream!

Fenix Strat

This Fenix Strat was an interesting guitar indeed. Made by Young Chang in the 80’s, it has a great weight, feel and finish.

I was originally asked overhaul the electrics on the guitar, however upon inspection they proved to be in a good state of repair so my attention turned to the condition of the frets.

On the top fret there were a couple of dents from where there had been an impact with the strings, and some wear near the nut from general playing. To remedy these I applied a fret stone and re-crown, polished them up and then she was good as gold!

I had to give the high E string but slot a bit of attention as it was fizzing, but once this was fixed, intonation and action set, it was time to plug in and do the final checks. Lovely!

So yesterday a lovely chap dropped over his Yamaha Pacifica 112 guitar which was in need of a setup. In its lifetime it had been strong with 9’s, 8’s, and mostly recently 10’s, leading to a raised tremolo bridge and high action. The bridge saddles were set flat, so they needed attention too.

The client simply wanted the guitar set for the 10’s, with minimal buzz – at a height whereby his fingers didn’t rise on top of his fingers.

In order to achieve this, I fitted an extra spring to the tremolo, which brought the bridge flat to the body (another request of the client), and then set about getting the action just so.

I set it to factory settings (1.9mm and 2.4mm at the top fret respectively for each E string), and this was to the customer’s liking.

After intonating the guitar and a quick polish, this guitar spent a little over 36hrs in my possession all told, and it was great to be able to get it back into the customer’s hands before Christmas!

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Fenix Strat and Yamaha RGX

Yamaha Pacifica Set-up