Woody’s Guitar Studio

10/15/2025

New strings and a new look. . .

10/13/2025

Doing some temporary pickup swapping. Testing some different bridge models. Trying out a Duncan Design HB103 for now. . .
This Jackson recieved a full fret level, rounded fret ends and recrown, and a fretboard polish. It now feels superb and plays beautifully.

10/08/2025

When you try to remove the k**b. . .

This is a common issue with cheap potentiometers. Attempt to “carefully” remove the cheap press fit k**b, and it easily pulls the shaft out with it. And now it’s a goner. I’ve heard many complaints about this issue. Budget guitars typically come with the lowest quality electronics. It’s a good idea to replace and upgrade them to reliable components to save the gig.

The plan for this guitar was to replace all the electronics anyway. And install a CTS or Alpha volume pot, a 5-way super switch, and a Tesi killswitch. And add a set of Seymour Duncan pickups with coil-split. It’s time to read schematics and break out the soldering gun. . . Work In Progress. . . 🎸

05/16/2025

Repair and paint job on old pickup rings. . . The white color is a change from those standard black plastic rings. I think they compliment this guitar nicely. Now its wearing a tuxedo. .

05/02/2025

Pickup replacement for this metallic red Jackson! 🎸

04/30/2025

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04/23/2025

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This is a Jackson JS12 new out of the box. It features a bolt on neck and a metallic red finish. This budget series model can be a great value after a little work and a good set-up. Some cheaply priced guitars and other budget friendly options can suffer from low quality control standards and can need adjustments and repairs even when brand new. This guitar received a few different repairs and some upgrades to greatly improve playability. The neck alignment had to be adjusted with a neck shim. A screw hole in the guitars’ neck was stripped and had to be plugged with a wood dowel. The fretboard had sharp fret ends, fret sprout, and uneven frets. We rounded the fret ends and it was given a full fret-level, crown, and polish. We have blocked the bridge in a simple fashion with some wood dowels to make it a stable hardtail bridge. We added cost effective shrink tubing to the rear springs for sound dampening. A truss-rod adjustment added neck relief. It was restrung with a new pack of strings and it received a full setup package with height and intonation adjustments.
Thank you to the guitar nerds who read this! Let’s Rock! 🎸

04/22/2025

Stripped strap button hole?
Woody’s Guitar Studio will repair it FREE with any re-string or set-up! 🎸👀

The guitar pictured below had the strap button holes plugged to install a clip-lock strap system, which is sometimes needed when installing strap locking systems or buttons.

- Maple wood dowels trimmed and fit to size, glue bonded, and new diameter pilot holes drilled

* the areas pictured were taped off to protect the finish during repair

04/12/2025

A new video has been uploaded to YouTube!
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