DIY Workshop

If you understand what their limitations are and how to adjust truss rods safely, it’s easy to do it yourself.

Snapping screws is a fairly common occurrence, here's a simple way to extract them while doing minimal damage to your guitar.

Three of the screws snapped while the tuners were being installed on this brand new neck. Will it turn out to be a costly mistake or a simple fix?

Let’s just say this Eric Clapton Stratocaster arrives in kit form with no guarantee that the electronics are working. There’s only one way to find out.

It’s no American classic, but this 1984 Tokai Breezysound is a couple of upgrades away from looking and sounding the part. We show you how to swap the bridge and sort out the controls.

How to build a basic Fuzz Face clone from scratch and turn it into a ‘boutique’ version with precision biasing, transistor switching and more.

After covering humbucker and P-90 mods last time around, this time we take a look at how you can improve the tone of classic Fender and Gretsch-style pickups.

Unhappy with your tone? Before you throw money at the problem and install a new set of pickups, try these simple modifications first. You may find your existing pickups can be tweaked to sound better than you’d ever imagined.

Nothing beats the look of a late 1950s Les Paul Standard. Find out how to mix your own colours and spray your own sunburst using period-correct materials – and the best thing is you don’t even need specialist equipment.

Is your single-coil electric plagued by noise? We can help.