Okay, I've decided to persevere with my LP Studio guitar rather than get rid of it cause I think it can be salvaged, so here's a list of things that I reckon needs doing to it to get it back into a reasonable state:
1, Replace the Kluson Revolution locking tuners with a set of Kluson Tone Pros ordered online from Stewmac, reason being is that although the Kluson Revolutions are still good, they have a nasty penchant for breaking strings.
2, Cut and install a new bone nut from a bone nut-blank ordered online from Stewmac (might order a few of them just in case I muck it up and have to start from scratch again).
3, Order from Stewmac all the needed tools for cutting and fitting the new bone nut.
4, Replace the original Nashville Tune-O-Matic bridge with a chrome Babicz full-contact bridge, since the original Nashville bridge is a bit loose (the bridge posts are a bit loose in their sockets as are the string-saddles themselves).
5, Touch-up the scuffed clear-lacquering on the neck near the nut-trench on both sides of the neck just to make it look better (order the clear lacquer online from Stewmac).
6, Fit four new Gibson Top-Hat style knobs to the pot-shafts (the black ones I had on it were chipped and broken), I think I'll go with Gold ones this time around, again ordered online from Stewmac.
7, Order a full set of Fret-Erasers online from Stewmac so I can give the frets a decent polish.
Might even give the guitar a good hand-polishing since I need the exercise anyway.
And Simon, I'd like to thank you for convincing me to persevere with the guitar, cheers mate, much appreciated.
Last edited by DrNomis_44; 26-07-2017 at 01:35 PM.
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