Ken Nash | 860-447-1851 | 91 Walker Hill Rd. | Groton, CT 06340 | Please call first before dropping by. General hours: M-F 10-6 | Directions
| ken@theguitarmechanic.com
Rio Grande Super Classic Tele sets in stock!
Free labor on pickguard assemblies when you buy the parts from me.
Complete copper sheilding for all pickup routs and control cavities.
Upgrading the circuit board in new Gibsons PRS Volume Pot Upgrade Les Paul Classic Upgrade
'52 Tele Reissue Upgrade
Custom harnesses made. I've been making them for 20 years, since my Guild days. Wax potting available. Reduces microphonic feedback. Gibson 3-way toggle wire upgrade
Triple Shot bezels installed
Stellartone tone pots installed and in stock!
Electric test rigs
Set-ups
Fretwork
Repair Restoration
Martin Gibson Guild
Electric Pickups & Electronics
Acoustic Pickups & Electronics
Nut & Saddle Installs
Banjo Mandolin Ukulele
Strat Upgrades
Tele Upgrades
Les Paul PRS
SG Upgrades
Epiphone Schecter
Import Upgrades
Gretsch Upgrades
Bass Upgrades
Guitars for sale
Custom Guitars
Bio Artists Shop Tour
Electric Guitar & Bass Pickup Installations
Pickups and circuits expertly installed.
Wax potting, rerouting cavities, pickguard and cavity sheilding
with grounded copper tape.
5-way Superswtiches can offer almost any configuration you can dream up.
My favorite is the automatic Tele position in the middle position.
4-way Tele switches, push-pull, series/parallel. Stellar tone pots, orange caps.
Archtop custom harnesses and repairs.
I used to build them at Guild so I have a vast experience with any harness.
Feedback & squeal?
Wax potting, cover removal or double potting.
High gain players can upgrade to active Blackouts also. (Epoxy potted)
Classic look with exposed magnets
Fralin 54s! Cloth tinned wire, Superswitch, Orange drops, Fender no-load tone pots
Before: Pickups and toggle are attached to a board via mini clips. Note the tiny caps.
After: Traditional solder joints with upgraded pots and caps
This is the best approach to upgrading the pickups in your new Gibson.
Otherwise your new pickups will have to be spliced into the existing clips.
The solder joints are a better connection than these clips also.
Sheilding is also available.
Before, this Single Cut had a faulty volume pot
After, Bourns 500 Series volume pots,
Tighter tolerances with smooth taper and feel.
Options: SBE orange drop caps Oil paper caps.
Treble Bypass cap,
Before: Small diameter switch wire, small ceramic disc cap, pickups too hot for customer
After: Upgraded Belden wire, SBE orange drop caps and Lindy Fralin Allman Brothers Set.
Options: Bourns 500 Series pots, Treble Bypass.
Before: Ceramic disc tone cap, resistor in series with neck position.
After: Bourns 82 Series pots, Vitamin Q cap, standard 3-way wiring.
Options: 4-way switch,
Original electronics kept in tact for future resale.
Essential for high gain with covers.
I recommend removing cover for high gain applications.
Replace the downgraded wire Gibson now uses with higher quality Belden wire.
Note the heat shrink. Nice touch!
Choose a smooth taper or click into each setting
Installed in a PRS SE with a Bourns volume pot, complete rewire with shielded Gibson style wire
Duncan calibrated Custom set in my '74 maple neck Strat
Duncan '59s in a Heritage H157
Through a '68 Super or '76 Marshall Lead II
Electric pickups in stock
Hear a '59 set in my Heritage LP
Strat Virtual Vintage Sets in stock
Hear a set in my shop Strat!