Razvan S.

Nu-s ''fan'' , dar postez si eu aici doua, ce mi-au trecut prin mana pt setup and whatnot. As fi curios sa incerc si eu un model de gen https://www.thomann.de/ro/harley_benton_fusion_hsh_roasted_maple.htm Un LP style Classic, si un 8 string fanned fret:

* Did a setup on a Harley Benton 8 string fanned fret and also cleaned the neck/polished the fretwires. Had to work on some and sand them down. I took one out and reinserted it, as it had accumulation of wood beneath it, and it stuck out. The nut also needed some work, it was in a rough shape visually before, and I also made one slot a little higher using a technique that is very good, combining CA glue and dust from a composite nut (something I rarely do, and I usually change the nut and adjust accordingly, but for such a nut and such a small rise in the action, it was a quick fix, no need to change the entire nut, as this mixture is very tough and once polished it's slippery and shiny). Some before after pics posted below. Before: After: * A Polytune Mini came in for a problematic switch. I took out the switch, and gave it a very thorough clean. Works great now with no issues. * Ibanez WH10V2 Wah repairs and mods. An Ibanez WH10V2 came in, and unfortunately it had the specific stereo pot that comes with these pedals, broken. You can see the missing piece of track from the 50K side (it is a 50K +500K pot). Luckily I found this model in the US, and bought 2 (for the future, just to be safe). I also did some mods and removed some capacitors, slightly upped some resistors, so that it does not have that much tone suck anymore.It matches the IN and OUTs of the WH10V1 now. Quite a nice decent vocal pedal. The range of the pot however is quite difficult to get right as far as adjustments, but after you achieve that, it sounds perfect for the entire range. *Epiphone LP Custom pickup switch cleaned/resoldered You can see that before it was soldered badly and the ground was actually not soldered at all. Fixed. Before and after: ________________________________________________________________ *HGE Contraptions Stutter/Killswitch Pedal 122nd pedal built * General setup and cleaning on an Ibanez Artcore AG75 Hollow Body. Polished and made the frets smooth, also adjusted the nut height in the slots. The input jack was very loose and almost fell into the body, so fixed that as well (it was missing the nut also). Electro parts cleaned. Before and after pics below. Before: After: * A Harley Benton L-400 LP (lefty) came in for a setup and some maintenance. The owner wanted it tuned down low, so for the scale of 24.75" that this particular guitar has, I chose 13-62 for a general C tuning(works dropped to A# also, with a decent light feel to it when dropping the C so low). Had to adjust the nut slots for the thicker gauge(can be seen as a comparison with the old regulat strings haha). Also had to sand down some fretwire, also removing the typical grindy feeling to them, and giving them a shine again. Cleaned the electro parts as well. Before and after: ________________________________________________________________ * A Fender Classic Series 72 Telecaster Deluxe came in for a setup and some general maintenance. Swapped and adjusted the new nut to fit (the old one was too low, and worn out), had to reglue a part of the finish back on the heel as it wanted to peel off a bit, as it cracked. Did a fretwire polish although it is pretty worn, but still good for a few years. Cleaned the electro stuff and adjusted everything. Unfortunately I could not get a very low action like I usually strive for, but that is the actual condition of the fretwire now, and I worked with that I had: the action is now 1.2 mm at the 12th fret and 2.2mm at the last one on the high E, and 1.5mm at the 12th fret for the low E and also 2.2 mm at the last fret. Some actually do this as a regular setup, but I usually prefer lower. It should be re-fretted in the future. However the sound has a nice body to it due to the medium/high action. Some before and after: ____________________________________________________________________________

* A fast repair on a Marshall TSL100 footswitch. It will come back at some point because it was tampered with anyway and I want to make it all right, in all. The customer and I compromised because he needed it right away due to a concert, and I did not have a dpdt through hole switch available, just like the original, jus ta 3pdt with holes. No problem, since the switch is mechanically fixed on the actual enclosure, I just soldered some leads * I replaced the footswitches in an Akai Headrush Delay. One got destroyed, and I changed both just to be sure in the long run * I finished a Friedman BE-OD Clone for someone, and I modded it to make it a little more versatile and tamed. A group of four diodes was replaces with two ZTX951 transistors used as diodes, and the internal trimpot was taken out as an external pot. Very amp like sound, usable now from lower gain settings to more aggressive ones. Exactly like the owner requested. 121st pedal built Pics and YouTube sample:

Tot poluam topicu omului si ia free up dar ma simt nevoit sa raspund iar...sa-mi fie rusine, mai ales ca am reglat un Kotzen tele pff. Yeap.

HM si Contemporary.

Continuam: Mesa Dual Caliber DC-3

FFS wtf??? Ai ceva de munca (daca il faci tu)

Hai sa mai continuam(tot de prin reparatii); JCM2000 DSL401 combo: Yamaha Hundred B212 solid state combo, misto very vintage : Peavey Valveking: JCM900: Hughes and Kettner Coreblade Full Tube (with decent cool digital stuff in it):

haha, Arpi, compressoru ala verde rocktron e unul modat de mine il recunosc dupa knobul ala (am si uitat ce facusem haha) parca fusese a meu candva

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* Some repairs in a Trace Elliot AH250 (had some capacitors way out of spec on the preamp side and I also checked other stuff). Also reapplied thermal paste on the power section. Will see if it comes back at some point or not * A Crown XLS 5000 came in because one channel was not working. At the end it just required some dust removal and contact cleaner. Solid built stuff ( I think it was featured at the NAMM 2008 show) * A Fender M-80 combo came in for a checkup and cleanup. Surprisingly decent distortion on this SS amp. * An Ibanez RG450 came in for some general maintenance (belongs to @apocapsile) -painted some screws -rewired with different DiMarzios and a Superswitch -setup -removed that fretwire grindy feel + polished them -refitted the inserts (came out easily) + new studs -resharpened the trem knives and painted them * Another EP Booster Modded clone (120th pedal built) This time I used a custom finish on the enclosure(had it for myself but the customer liked it and I used it on his project). Volume Boost, Tone Cut, 3 way bass switch, 9V->18V internal * An Ibanez RG721 came in for some tinkering (belongs to @Crisan Darius_28146) -made a general rewiring, cleaning all the parts prior to this -the bridge humbucker had one dead coil unfortunately -> mounted a Seymour Duncan TB-6 Distortion -setup + fretboard and fretwire cleaning * An Epiphone SG Special came if for some general work: -swapped the bridge humbucker (which I had to modify with longer wires as they were previously cut short and also custom fabricate some new ears, because the screw holes were stripped) -also mounted a new input jack because the old one was faulty -setup with some nut adjustments -fretwire made shiny and the grindy feeling is now gone * A Hughes & Kettner Coreblade head came in for a problem regarding the fact that the filaments weren't lighting up on the tubes. (belongs to @LumpY) I explored everything and found some cold/cracked solder points. Works great now * A Romanian Madrigal strat came back for a rewiring. (belongs to @bogdan) I also mounted a split switch for both the DiMarzio DP151 Paf Pro in the bridge and the neck DiMarzio DP217 HS4 (Malmsteen model one). I actually like the HS4 in the true single coil mode much more. * A Squier Bass came in for a setup + some fretwire cleaning and I also fixed a strap button which was coming out. This Bass was in my hands before but it only required a very fast intonation, setup was ok. In the meantime the customer installed much thicker strings without a proper setup, and went back to another set, so it had to be redone.

A fost dead un coil din bridge. Bagat SD TB-6, si curatat/rewired/completat si cu foil ce aveam, desi avea paint si puteam sa iau shield-ul existent jos, in zona poturilor era luat jos din paint, asa ca am preferat sa las shield-ul si sa completez mai mult ; am facut si setup si altele, fretwire clean etc) Chitara e chiar acum inapoi spre el. O chitara very cool (Ibanez Premium series Indonezia), chiar am fost surprins de model . E light, iar fretwire end-urile sunt dementiale <<note to self...must buy tons of copper shielding >>

Ce madness ma

Desfacut, cautat/masurat -> retarded solder joints Works great

Inca un Charvel cu Kahler (in curand il primesc) 1986 Model 5, Japan, doze Jackson USA (J80, ceramic de data asta, pe Model 4 am J50B alnico) Gotta love these guitars , mai ales cand starea e chiar bunicica pentru varsta

* Repaired a Dunlop Crybaby Wah. Owner wanted everything stock, so just plain maintenance: - changed the original Carling switch with an identical one (it was very crackly even if I tried to clean it), and I also adjusted the action of the pedal on the switch, so that it is more easily engaged; - fixed some cracked solder joints; Works great again. * A Fender Precision Bass came in for a setup. It had a dead straight neck and horrible rattle/buzzing at the first frets. Now it plays great, and I also cleaned the fretboard + fretwire is cleaned/re-shined. As you can see, this bass is actually brand new, even having the protective foil on the pickguard and also the tuners haha. * Two Boss BE5 Multieffects came in for some general fixing: - both had the pots cleaned and the jacks as well - on one I had to redo a pad on the DC in jack, and redo all the solder joints of all the jacks on the pcb (a lot of cracks) - on the other in addition to redoing all the solder joints on all the jacks, I also had to change all the micro tact switches and also redo the previously lifted or completely destroyed pads, using thin resistor wire; maybe not the most perfect way to redo a pad, but I regularly do it like this with good results, if it is really needed and the pads are totally missing. They work great now First one: Second one:

Ban - clona gica.gogu=gica.contra

Acelasi individ, inca doua conturi. Imi pare rau ca unii au frustrari ciudate si isi imagineaza situatii sau mai stiu eu ce, in loc sa fie seriosi, dar asta e Can't argue with crazy, never could Curulubaburu si sarbra1

Multumesc Adin! ****************************************************************************************** Updates: *This Reghin 1976 3/4 violin belonged to my gfnd's late grandfather, and is in need of some general maintenance, which I will do in the future: - so far, I gave it a thorough cleaning (very hard crusted dust from sitting over the years) - will need a new bow - new nut / new bridge / possibly new tuners - some black staining on the fingerboard - the case needs some work (derust, latch fixing) *Blade California in for some tinkering. Sounds great now! This guitar came through a courier from a different city. - redid almost all the wiring; had to clean an older(but good) Alpha pot. Had 250K before, but sounds much better with 500K now. The battery snap was missing, so I added a new one. Bridge pup changed to Duncan Custom Custom, and I needed a lot of autoadhesive foam to get it at normal level haha. - fretboard cleaning + fretwire mildly cleaned a bit, setup and some nut adjustments. The customer wanted the trem just a little bit above the body, and also to make the saddles parallel (they tend to be hard to stay in place neat, but I got that sorted out). Also made the springs noiseless * Setup on the same US Fender Stratocaster 40th Anniversary that was in last time. This time, the gauge is much lighter and the trem has much more float in it *PRS Mike Mushok Signature Baritone Setup + Fretwire polish (had a grindy feel to it before), now it's smooth and nice. Adjusted the nut slightly (the thick strings were snagging, and the thinner ones were too high). I also cleaned the electro parts. You can go crazy with low action on this, since the gauge is 14-68 (with minimal fret rattle with 1 mm to 1.2 at the last fret!) , but I settled for an almost dead straight neck with 1.25 to 1.5 mm at the last fret. The intonation was nowhere near where it should of been before, but now it's good.

* Fixed a cracked neck(did not refinish) and did a setup on an entry level Flame guitar(nut and saddle adjusted). It really plays decent now * Did some tinkering on a Kramer Baretta , but unfortunately due to some aftermarket modifications to this guitar I could not do the setup correctly, as the jackson floyd on it is different that the stock ofr floyd,and does not give enough saddle travel to intonate the E and B strings finely on the upper register. This will come back at some point for a total rewiring(has some issues and the solder spots are really cold), and a new trem. Would need the fretwire sides sanded and smoothed out also. The neck pickup ring is also broken and needs replacing, and there are several strange scratched on the fretboard and back of the neck. Cool guitar nonetheless! Also waxed the neck back and made the springs noiseless And the issues I mentioned which should be fixed in the future (the owner needed the guitar urgently and the next operations will take place in the future to fix them): And a comparison with the additional saddle travel which would of been needed to properly intonate some strings, if the original tremolo had still been on the guitar (the other trem is an OFR from another guitar):

Same, Ctitorul2

Acelasi individ. Cititorul/Ctitorul. Ban Dragut sa iti tot faci cont pe RGC bagand anunturi, dupa ce spui ca e un c*cat si ca nu ai nevoie sa bagi anunturi pe el

Vad ca exista shield paint in cavitate. Vezi sa nu fie shield paint si IN cavitatea de jack, posibil sa se atinga hot cu ground (am mai vazut asta, de aia zic) Sau, bornele de la pots sa atinga shieldul.

* A Hagstrom Super Swede came in for some overall tweaking: - some nut adjustments - fretwire polishing - fretboard cleaning - rewiring (cleaned the old pots, good quality CTS ones, usually just need a thorough clean!) - removed some rust and lacquered some original screws black (those for which I did not have replacements) - installed a set of Lace Dissonant Aggressors (also had to solder some stock wires on them that came loose from their solder points -> no biggie, it happens if the surface on which the solder should adhere to is not correctly sanded) - usual setup: restring, intonation, neck - the bridge inserts were completely coming out of the body with almost no resistance, and the ground wire was almost broken in the hole, so I fixed those as well * Fixed an Ibanez Mostortion pedal: - it had some dead caps - improper soldering on some parts - the protection diode was fully destroyed - unfortunately the IC was also destroyed, so I ordered one(this particular pedal has an obsolete/discontinued IC), but for the time being, a 4558 will do

* The same Ibanez S model from 2 years ago, came in for a setup again, but with a different tuning and gauge; I also adjusted the nut, cleaned the fretwire a bit, cleaned the fretboard, waxed the neck, made the springs noiseless and did rust removal + coating with lacquer on the previously rusted screws for which I had no replacement(the inserts/the neck screws for example). I also added some new screws and a new neck pickup ring. Looks a lot better now