Hi Everyone,

Here is the second model in our demo line. Essentially much like the first however this has shorter, more pointed horns, a different headstock shape and a shorter 25" scale length. Full specs are at the bottom of the post.

Body

2 Piece Sapele

Neck

1 Piece Maple

Fretboard

Indian Rosewood & Green Abalone Inlay

Hardware

Axesrus® Black Locking Tuners

Tune-O-Matic Style Fixed Bridge

Black Knobs

Graphtech® Black TUSQ® Nut

Jumbo Stainless Steel Fretwire

2 way Truss Rod

Electrics

Bare Knuckle® Warpig Humbuckers

3 Way CRL Lever Switch

2 500K CTS Pots

Mono Output Jack

Finish

Danish Oil

If you are thinking about trying this out or just want to see what our workmanship is like before asking us to do a job for you please feel free to contact us by phone or email.

Best regards,

Mike & Martin

swguitars@hotmail.co.uk

Hi Everyone,

Over the past couple of months we've been attempting to build some stock / demo guitars for people to try out to see what our quality of work is like and whether they get on with our guitars before they think about buying.

Here is the first of the demo stock. A pretty standard Super Strat with a 25.5 scale length, string through body and Bare Knuckle pups. Full specs at the bottom of the post.

Body

2 Piece Sapele

Neck

1 Piece Maple

Fretboard

Indian Rosewood & Green Abalone Inlay

Hardware

Locking Schaller® Tuners

Tune-O-Matic Style Fixed Bridge

Nickel Knobs

Graphtech® Black TUSQ® nut
Jumbo Stainless Steel Fretwire
2 way Truss Rod

Electrics

Bare Knuckle® Miracle Man Humbuckers

3 way CRL Lever Switch

2x 500K CTS pots (1 Volume, 1 Tone)

Mono Output Jack

Finish
Danish Oil

If you are thinking about trying this out or just want to see what our workmanship is like before asking us to do a job for you please feel free to contact us by phone or email.

Best regards,

Mike & Martin

swguitars@hotmail.co.uk

Hi everyone!

We were tasked with building a P-Bass replica for a young customer over the last few months. The design brief we were given called for some pretty eye catching paintwork! Specs are listed at the bottom of the post!

It proved fairly challenging to hand paint these tiger stripes but we think it came out looking pretty good! The blue and the black provide a really vivid contrast!

We had a custom decal printed per the customer's request and it looks great against the all black headstock!

Unlike most P-Basses, the customer had requested that we put the output jack on the side rather than the traditional scratchplate mounted option. In place of the output jack we were asked to fit a killswitch instead.

                    SPECS

                     Body 

                     2 Piece Swamp Ash 

         

                    Neck 

                   1 Piece Maple

                   Fretboard 

                   Indian Rosewood & white dot inlay

                    Hardware 

                  Fender® Style Standard Tuners 

                 Fender® Style Fixed Bridge 

                    Chrome Knobs

                  Graphtech® Black TUSQ® nut

                  Strap locks

                   Electrics 

                 Seymour Duncan® SPB-3 Pickups

                    1 Volume, 1 Tone

                     Mono Output Jack

                      2 position toggle killswitch

                 Finish

                  Acid Catalyst Lacquer

This proved to be an interesting and fun build and we're glad to see it in the hands of its very happy customer!

Best regards,

Mike & Martin 

swguitars@hotmail.co.uk

Hi everyone!

Usually these types of thing we do present in a 2 part format but this guitar wasn't in that bad a condition so this will be a smaller post.

We had a Washburn® Nuno N1 come in a for a little refurb and set up. This guitar had been in storage for the best part of 10 years so for the most part was just a case of blowing the cobwebs out and giving it a good set-up.

The usual build up of grime on the fretboard and fretwire here. Nothing too drastic and easily solved with some cleaning fluid, a toothbrush and polishing paper.

Given a good clean and dousing in lemon oil the fretboard and fretwire come up looking good again.

Poking around in the control cavity led to a few interesting finds. The guitar had a tone pot fitted many years prior by another Luthier. The installed tone is the larger of the two pots shown here.

We were surprised at the amount of empty space that would have otherwise been here as standard!

A couple of pics to show the finished article!

That's it for this one! Hope you enjoyed reading!

Any questions or comments please leave here or email us!

Best Regards,

Mike & Martin

swguitars@hotmail.co.uk

Hi everyone!

Here are the fruits of our labours with this bass!

Looking much brighter now! We didn't do a huge amount with the finish as apart from the dings and depressions it wasn't in too bad a condition.

We found individual saddle height adjustment screws or the right thread were almost impossible to get hold of without importing from America. We decided instead to just buy a new bridge entirely.

We gave the electrics a clean up and made sure they weren't crackling. Also we replaced all of the scratch plate and control plate screws.

After dismantling, cleaning and shining all the components of the machine heads they have come up looking almost brand new!

We managed to bend the peg heads back into alignment and made sure they were shining!

The frets surprisingly came up looking very good indeed! we gave the fretboard a going over as well with some light wire wool and a good lemon oiling!











We are happy with the way this turned out! Looks and plays so much better now!

Any comments or questions please leave here or email us!

Best regards!

Mike & Martin

swguitars@hotmail.co.uk

Hi Everyone!

We had this 85' Fender® Jazz Bass come in for a refurb. The owner had been given it for free! She was looking to get it cleaned up a bit so gave it to us for a bit of TLC!

On the face of it, not too bad, there are many dings and depressions in the finish however without a full refinish these would be very troublesome to get out.

The bridge was quite dirty and the saddle adjustment screws were completely seized! Unfortunately the hex key heads had corroded so much that it was impossible for the allen key to find purchase and turn the screws. We managed to get them out with a pair of small vice-grips but they will need replacing entirely.

The control plate wasn't too badly tarnished, the screws holding the control plate and scratch-plate however did need replacing as most of the heads had corroded badly.

Grotty machine heads aplenty! A lot of tarnish and wearing on the mechanisms.

A lot more tarnishing on the peg heads!

As you can see the pegs themselves had become fairly bent over time. Nothing that a short straightening in a vice wont fix!

The fretboard wasn't too bad however the fretwire left a lot to be desired!

Something not seen on many new Fenders is the old 3 screw "micro-tilt" neck joint. A good idea in theory however never really executed that well.

Something we did find interesting, although the serial number on the neck indicates that this is a 1985-1986 bass, there was a stamp inside the neck pocket stating "Mar 98'" We can only assume that this bass has had a body change at some point in its life.






If anyone knows another reason why this would have this stamp, we'd love to know! Feel free to leave a comment or email us!

So there we have it! Not too drastic all things considered, stay tuned for part 2!

Best regards,
Mike & Martin

swguitars@hotmail.co.uk

Hi everyone!

Here are the results of our work on the 88' Squier® Bullet!

After dismantling , cleaning and polishing the machine heads came back to life very nicely!

We replaced the yellowing plastics with new white ones. The scratch plate is original as the yellowing wasn't bad. All we did was give it a clean up and polish. There was a large deep scratch near the contour that is hard to see in the "before" pics but we managed to buff it out and get the finish looking good again!

We gave the dusty, grime filled bridge a good going over. Dismantled and individual components cleaned brings it back to a good condition.

Here's the shot where that large scratch previously was. Looking good now after some light sanding, buffing and polishing.

And an after shot of the other major scratch and we replaced the missing switch tip!

For its age this little Bullet has come back to life remarkably well! I hope you've enjoyed its refurb, the owner certain did! Any comments or questions please leave here or email us!


Best regards
Mike & Martin

swguitars@hotmail.co.uk