Archive: 2023-05-21

  • Week 124: Mayke

    There’s a portmanteau hashtag #mayke that people use for things that they make in May, and that seems like an appropriate theme for this week.

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  • Project Mustang: Turning Squier’s cheapest guitar into something great

    As I wrote previously, I picked up a second-hand Squier Bullet Mustang guitar for £65 via Gumtree. It had a lot of promise, but it wasn’t achieving its potential. The fretwork was terrible (not level, sharp ends), the nut was too high, and the bright white single ply pickguard looked cheap and nasty. The bridge was too far back and not straight. The pickups were fine, but not stellar. So I improved it.

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