A made in Montana Gibson jumbo in for a few things. Originally it came in for the pickup to be removed and for the bridge pins to be better fit. The pickup was a Barcus Berry bridge plate pickup that was fairly easy to remove. The adhesive had deteriorated so it peeled off cleanly. The output jack in the tail block was replaced by a NoJak. These are sized to fit an enlarged end pin hole with a collet and allen screw tightened from the inside. It's a good solution to plugging and redrilling the tail block, but always seems to require quite a bit of fitting.

While addressing the pickup removal, I noticed that the Gibson Deluxe tuners were damaged so I attempted to repair them.

During the setup I discovered that the nut was too worn out with excessive open string buzzes. We went with a new bone nut and shimmed up the saddle to round out the setup. Check out the shaping of the new bone nut below in the video from the daily vlog.

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2002 Gibson ES-333 [8.4 lbs] :: intermittent pickup & broken tuners

The neck pickup was cutting in and out on this hollowbody so that usually means you have fish the electronics out through the f-hole or pickup rout to clean / repair. To my surprise I found an access cover in the back! This is the first Gibson hollowbody with an access panel to come across my bench. As much as I don't like the idea of them on hollows, it makes resoldering this broken neck pickup lead and cleaning the pots much, much easier. The bass-side tuners were also previously repaired by someone supergluing the covers. This is always a temporary fix and the time had come to replace them. Tuning is now much more stable with a new set of tuners.

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on the bench

No pickup, new nut & tuner fix :: 1993 Gibson J-100 xtra [4.6 lbs]

2002 Gibson ES-333 [8.4 lbs] :: intermittent pickup & broken tuners

Made in Mass, not mass made.

LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS