[Matt Miller New Noise Guitar Repair]

I didn’t see the replies… never got an email alert like I thought I would. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thanks for your input everyone.
I ordered the StewMac GoldenAge tuners. They fit perfectly, even the mounting screw holes matched up! My customer loved ’em!

[Matt Miller New Noise Guitar Repair]

Sorry I haven’t been on in a while. I’ll have a go at removing the neck then the brace so I can clean it all up, and reglue it with Original Titebond. I’ll try to flatten the top too.
I hear the concerns with the hide glue.
I don’t have the Stew Mac neck removal jig… This will be my first neck removal.

[Matt Miller New Noise Guitar Repair]

I decided to reglue the brace before doing anything else, so maybe 10 days ago I cleaned the gap as best I could, glued with hide glue (the Titebond, shelf-stable kind), clamped it, left it overnight. Unclamped it roughly 24 hours later, took a look, and was happy with the results. Then I went out a of town for a week. I came back to this.
Where did I go wrong? Old hide glue? Not enough clamping time? Something else?

[Matt Miller New Noise Guitar Repair]

<div>It might depend on how old your customers are. Gen X and some Millennials use Facebook. Gen Z and younger generally do not. Instagram tends to be cross-generational.
If you go the Facebook route, yeah, you should make a page, and that means having a personal account. You could just make a personal account for your business to get around that. You do loose some of the functionality of a page though, if that’s important to you.
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For me, a Google business listing was what brought me a meaningful amount of business. When people search “guitar repair near me” – you want to be at or near the top. And that’s where a business listing comes in.

[Matt Miller New Noise Guitar Repair]

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[Matt Miller New Noise Guitar Repair]

I’ll offer another perspective. You could go work part time in the shop for that other luthier. Use his tools, work under his insurance, and work toward getting a loyal customer base of your own in that shop. People that go there, but you’re their “guy.” Then when you think you have enough loyal customers, leave. Odds are, many of your customers will come with you (especially if your personal shop is not too far away geographically).

I don’t like the idea of bringing another shop’s work into your own. There’s too much liability at stake. What if something happens while the guitar is in your possession? Theft, fire, flood, or you damage the guitar… Whose insurance pays for that?

Either get the other shop to refer customers to you, or go to work for them temporarily.

[Matt Miller New Noise Guitar Repair]

Do you get signal when you attach the pickup directly to the output jack? You can use something like the attached picture.

If so, resolder it to the circuit and test continuity with your multimeter. First the ground, then the hot working backwards from the jack – jack to the volume pot, volume pot to the switch, switch lug (to the volume pot) to switch lug (to the pickup), etc…

Make sure nothing is touching any shielding in the guitar when you put it all back together.

[Matt Miller New Noise Guitar Repair]

Yes, the roller is what we’re after. The question is really if the top of the guitar can handle the extra pressure and mounting screws. Do they need to be screwed into the internal braces?

That said, without doing a complete setup, just adjusting the neck and action to measurements I like seems to keep the strings in the saddles with hard strumming. So I’m going to propose we leave the guitar as is.

[Matt Miller New Noise Guitar Repair]

This was my next step, getting the setup dialed in correctly – the neck currently has back bow and the action is about half of where I’d start it. I’m dubious it will make a lot of difference. I might suggest going back to the original saddle.

[Matt Miller New Noise Guitar Repair]

It’s a bridge with roller saddles. I did suggest going back to the original saddles. The customer switched it out (before bringing the guitar to me) because he was breaking a lot of strings… I said there could be sharp edges on the saddle easily smoothed with sandpaper or light filing.
I don’t quite understand how making the changes you suggest would keep the strings from coming out of the saddles.

[Matt Miller New Noise Guitar Repair]

This one? I like Ted Woodford a lot.

[Matt Miller New Noise Guitar Repair]

Thank you! Ordered. Expect more questions in the near future!

[Matt Miller New Noise Guitar Repair]

Not yet… I guess that’s my first step. How many do I need? Two?
So, I’m correct, it needs a neck reset?