[Alexis Drosopoulos ADR Pedals]

<div>For me everything started when I paid a famous local tech at the town I was studying to do a setup to my brand new Strat. He proceeded to file the nut slots so low that the open strings buzzed and although the guitar had a 9.5″ radius, the strings had a 12″ radius (as I later discovered). When I told him about the open string buzz and the notes chocking out on bends (because of the wrong radius) he told me I’m just strumming hard (I have a jazz background).</div>

That’s when I said f** it, I’ll do it myself. Youtube, StewMac, a bunch of forums and photos I found online guided me through replacing the nut back then with a Tusq (I definitely didn’t have the skill set back then to make my own nut from blank). I also bought a string action gauge, an understring radius gauge and a few feelers and I did a pretty good setup on my Strat. After that I was hooked. I still don’t do much of finish work and woodworking stuff due to limited time and tools, but I take on setups, anything electronics related and refrets.

[Alexis Drosopoulos ADR Pedals]

Nah, I have a “regular” day job into robotics and my side business is building pedals. Setups and guitar work is a hobby for me and I only take a few jobs for close friends of mine that just trust me. There are plenty of great techs here in Greece trying to make a living out of it and I honestly don’t want to do it unless I do it legally with invoices and whatnot. I just love what the loothgroup is about and I want to get better at what I’m doing, even if I’m not doing it full time.