MRO - Maintenance Repair and Overhaul
---stolen from aviation field terms.
Yeah. It's my turn.
I stripped my guitar off its strings. And even undress its bridge construction. Not to every inch. I wouldn't dare to remove the coil and magnet. Or try cut the wires off. I would be left with weeks or months with no electric but never mind.
Let photos do the work.
The new set of strings: D'Addario Light Top/Heavy Bottom
They are in thousandths of an inch.
From the 1st to the 6th string: 10, 13, 17, 30, 42 and 52.
The 0.052inch or 1.32mm heavy gauged string sure ain't no joke to the fingertips. It's almost as thick as a usual classical guitar thickest string. I think it's almost similar, comparing mine. But of course the classical guitar has less tension in the build and less tension held on the guitar I guess. Furthermore, electric guitar does not have a sound hole to amplify the natural acoustics produced by the vibration of the string. That explains why electric guitars has a much tighter tension by standard tuning. But erh...the amplification by electric pickup seals the case away. I have no more say...not technically well-versed in this field.
My bridge pickup. I freaking screwed it. Literally also. I was screwing the screws around it. The height of the pickup suddenly fluctuated from side to side. In the end, it lost its position. No matter how fixing I tried the orientation and position was just messed up. I was so worried if it would affect the signal pickup when electric is plugged.
yet There was no string to test.
The next day. I braved myself. I removed the outer two bridge construction components such as the springs and screw. I am not quite sure what the spring and screw are for. I thought initially they are to adjust height by varying the degree lengthwise from the bridge. But I just found out there are another set of screws which require a mini allen key to be adjusted. That is for the height, more practical and can be seen the difference in the height adjusted.
The two sets of screws I mentioned, one is horizontally fed to the bridge plate lengthwise to the guitar body. Another is vertically, standing on the bridge plate.
Yeah removed them. So I have access to all 3 large screws which are actually the only fasteners of the bridge construction to the body.
There. Only to find out that the mess of the bridge pickup was caused by the screws and springs underneath them. They screwed. No picture of it. Cos I was so happy to fix it the instance I rectified it.
And so I repaired all of the positions and screws and screws and screws.
That is the core between the screws, maybe iron core which is the core for the electromagnet of the pickup. Can't see the winding. Telecaster bridge pickup man yoohoooo...
Clean. Bright. New.
Colourful ball ends of the strings.
The sound. Great. Not much review on the sound. Depends on what kind of tone and sound you want.
I don't have the precise vocabulary to describe them anyway. But I think I can say they are quite crunchy. The 4th, 5th and 6th strings are new gauges so changes in the tone should be affected there. Quite balanced the sound produced when I strum them altogether. Broad sounding. Ghostly.
---stolen from aviation field terms.
Yeah. It's my turn.
I stripped my guitar off its strings. And even undress its bridge construction. Not to every inch. I wouldn't dare to remove the coil and magnet. Or try cut the wires off. I would be left with weeks or months with no electric but never mind.
Let photos do the work.
The new set of strings: D'Addario Light Top/Heavy Bottom
They are in thousandths of an inch.
From the 1st to the 6th string: 10, 13, 17, 30, 42 and 52.
The 0.052inch or 1.32mm heavy gauged string sure ain't no joke to the fingertips. It's almost as thick as a usual classical guitar thickest string. I think it's almost similar, comparing mine. But of course the classical guitar has less tension in the build and less tension held on the guitar I guess. Furthermore, electric guitar does not have a sound hole to amplify the natural acoustics produced by the vibration of the string. That explains why electric guitars has a much tighter tension by standard tuning. But erh...the amplification by electric pickup seals the case away. I have no more say...not technically well-versed in this field.
My bridge pickup. I freaking screwed it. Literally also. I was screwing the screws around it. The height of the pickup suddenly fluctuated from side to side. In the end, it lost its position. No matter how fixing I tried the orientation and position was just messed up. I was so worried if it would affect the signal pickup when electric is plugged.
yet There was no string to test.
The next day. I braved myself. I removed the outer two bridge construction components such as the springs and screw. I am not quite sure what the spring and screw are for. I thought initially they are to adjust height by varying the degree lengthwise from the bridge. But I just found out there are another set of screws which require a mini allen key to be adjusted. That is for the height, more practical and can be seen the difference in the height adjusted.
The two sets of screws I mentioned, one is horizontally fed to the bridge plate lengthwise to the guitar body. Another is vertically, standing on the bridge plate.
Yeah removed them. So I have access to all 3 large screws which are actually the only fasteners of the bridge construction to the body.
There. Only to find out that the mess of the bridge pickup was caused by the screws and springs underneath them. They screwed. No picture of it. Cos I was so happy to fix it the instance I rectified it.
And so I repaired all of the positions and screws and screws and screws.
That is the core between the screws, maybe iron core which is the core for the electromagnet of the pickup. Can't see the winding. Telecaster bridge pickup man yoohoooo...Clean. Bright. New.
Colourful ball ends of the strings.
The sound. Great. Not much review on the sound. Depends on what kind of tone and sound you want.
I don't have the precise vocabulary to describe them anyway. But I think I can say they are quite crunchy. The 4th, 5th and 6th strings are new gauges so changes in the tone should be affected there. Quite balanced the sound produced when I strum them altogether. Broad sounding. Ghostly.
