Morning
all,
This is
Ben with my first blog for the new, improved and deliciously spangly new Cookes
website. Welcome along, make yourself a nice steamy brew, take a nice
comfortable seat and we shall begin. Well,
what a week it’s been! I’ve finally
managed to clear the huge raft of guitar repairs that all poured in through the
door over the last seven days. It seems
that everybody has collectively decided to put right that dodgy axe so that it’s
ready just in time for summer.
You know,
S-U-M-M-E-R. It’s when the hot yellow
thing in the sky is meant to make us feel all warm and fuzzy.
Anyway, I’ve
installed a pickup on an acoustic guitar, made two basses and five guitars
playable again and cleaned bodies, polished frets and oiled the fretboards of
everything else that moved. String
action and poor intonation is a big bugbear for most guitarists and, if you
know you’re in for a disappointing jam on a guitar that fights you every step
of the way, these things can put you off even wanting to pick it up in the
first place.
Guitars
can also get pretty disgusting when they get regular use or haven’t been used
for a while. If yours is looking manky
and needs a good scrub, if it feels like you are playing a cheese grater or
if the electrics on it make funny noises when you touch it in a certain way,
bring it in a let me see if I can make it feel like the first day you bought it
again! A full service costs £35 plus a
new set of strings; not prohibitively expensive and it could just inspire you
to pick it up a little more often so you can finally nail that solo you’ve been
trying to work on. Yes, that one, where
that bit is meant to go ‘bididdly doo wakka weeeyooo’ but currently just goes ‘meh’.
Hmm, I
think I need another coffee.
Take
care all, keep on rocking!
Ben. x
ben@cookes.co.uk
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