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COLUMN Dan's Guitar RX
When I tapped on the neck, I could indeed
hear a rattle. I thought maybe it was the truss
rods, but I hadn't experienced this with previous
truss work, and the rods I made were snug in
their channels. Plus, to my ear, the rattle seemed
to come from other areas. I tested the entire
instrument for loose parts, then pulled the truss
rods and reinstalled them; this time, however,
I put the rods in 3/16" heat-shrink tubing, which
added to their diameter enough they wouldn't
slide back in...
8) ...so, I took a scrap rod and used a lathe to
counter-bore one end, then used a blunt round
tool to flare the counter-bored end into a cutting
edge; behind that edge, I drilled a hole sideways
through the rod and hammered in a finish nail.
I clipped the ends of the nail close to the rod
and turned them on the lathe to create a cutter.
9) By tapping this rod back-and-forth several
times through the channels, I scraped enough
wood so the wrapped rods would fit....

10) ...which they did, especially since I
lubed them with petroleum jelly. The neck
played great again, and with no rat... wait.
There was still a rattle! Going through the
instrument again, I found it was coming
from the area of the neck pickup; its magnet
had shifted loose between the metal mounting plate and chrome cover.
11) The neck pickup does have two rubber
compression washers between the plastic
pickguard and the metal pickup to keep it
from rattling, but it didn't stop the metal
from rattling.
12) I removed the small bolts and hex nuts
that fasten the cover to the plate, applied
strips of double-stick tape to it, sliced open
a piece of 1/ 2" heat-shrink tubing, slipped it
over the edges of the plate, and smoothed
it tight so the tubing created a "f lap" that
covered both sides of the plate.
13) Removing the pickup and putting it

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back numerous times caused the pickup's
ground wire to break, so I stripped the lead
back to the braid and soldered it back in
place. That part was easy with the StewMac Solder Monster, which holds spools
of wire, tools, and has f lexible arms strong
enough to hold a pickguard (with pickups
and wiring harness). It's especially useful
when factory wiring is tight and I don't
want to unsolder leads for such a simple
task. In this case, it held the pickguard plus
the pickup, which I'd removed.
Dan Erlewine has been repairing guitars for more
than 40 years. He is the author of three books, dozens
of magazine articles, and has produced instructional
videotapes and DVDs on guitar repair. Since 1986,
Erlewine has lived and worked in Athens, Ohio, as
part of the R&D team for Stewart-MacDonald's
Guitar Shop Supply. You can contact Dan at dan@
stewmac.com.



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