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Great Used Guitars

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Great Used Guitars on Reverb Too!

Superficial surface finish cracks are prone to all guitars. Importantly, more in used guitars.
Strats tend to crack the paint or finish surface in that exact same spot where the neck meets the body. Used guitars are especially more prone because they have been handled more.
If you bought a guitar that was not listed as Mint, NEW or Perfect
then it’s a used guitar. Ordinary wear and tear and surface cracks are to be expected sometimes, so clearly a surface crack in the body where the neck meets the pocket is a non-issue. Equally important, if a used guitar plays well and sounds good and is in excellent playing condition
why worry?

The “Real Value” of used guitars

Remember-most used guitars aren’t beauty pageant entries, just good possibilities as great playing instruments for you.
You need to ask yourself? Did I buy this guitar to play it or look at it?
When you think nothing about how well it plays but just how it looks it’s not the guitar with a problem.
The real value of a “used guitar” is that it allows a player to have some experience with a higher end instrument without the higher cost.
I really hope as a serious player you try it to determine if it plays well.
Most guitar players are Divas, sure I get it. They are superficial and tend to choose instruments as they would a girl friend.
Don’t do that. It’s a tool. If you buy a used dull tool-then don’t complain…sharpen it!image Haywire Custom Guitars neck and body fit on a used guitar.Haywire Custom Guitars neck and profile + back contours for ease of playing.

To an untrained eye-sometimes what may look like an issue is usually not an issue at all.
When paint is stripped from a used guitar body there will be a space where the excessive amounts of paint used to be. For example, the neck pocket.
As a guitar builder-I want some space for my guitar necks to align properly. That is a very important part of a setup later on in the process.

Not every neck fits perfectly tight

When adding a neck to a guitar body there are 4 axis which need to be perfectly positioned. As follows: right, left
and forward and backward neck alignment. If the neck is perfectly aligned on all of those axis-it will play properly.
When buying a used or new guitar that is what to look for.
Look at the string margin space on each side from 1st to last frets between the neck and strings.
Ideally you should see the same amount of neck space from each of the “E” strings to the side of the neck-all the way down.
That will give an indication of the proper alignment to right and left axis. Further, the strings will ride just over top of each pole piece on each pickup. That is another indication alignment is correct.
Not every guitar neck fits perfectly tight with every body. It doesn’t need to.
It just needs to align and play well.
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No Player Left Behind

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A Guitar for YOU? It’s not only sales that we directly benefit from, but it’s YOU, and sharing your guitar experience with other players.
We want to support each and every player in the hopes that in
it’s travels, a Haywire guitar, from our custom shop may catch
the eye of a player whom needs a good instrument
but maybe cannot afford what most companies charge now for a guitar.
Their goal is profit.
Our goal is simply-“No player left behind”.
We donate guitars every year but never really know if they get into
the hands of a needy player who cannot afford a guitar.
At Haywire Custom Guitars Custom Shop we also do a lot of work
on players’ guitars. Most of these guitars are near and dear to
their hearts.
We give guitar players good solid work and what they need at a
great price. They need to trust that the work will be good.
We know what players need and how little
they get paid for their skills. With us it’s not about the
money but getting needed support and quality at a price
real musicians can afford. Having been there, we are advocates
for players world-wide.

Haywire Custom Shop Replacement Guitar Neck Option- Custom Guitar Neck Shapes

In some cases, a replacement guitar neck is preferable to replacing the entire guitar. First of all, cracking finishes, worn frets and warping fret boards are common ailments of guitar necks. Therefore, replacing a bolt-on guitar neck is often a considerably less expensive option than repairing the damage or replacing the whole guitar.

No player left behind: Custom Guitar Neck Shapes For You!

Most of all,  when the time comes, Haywire Custom Shop can replace your neck for you.  Because, one solution, guitar neck replacement may solve your guitar neck issues.  You Can Choose from Super Wide and Fat Guitar Necks to Thin and Slim!  Consequently, it may be the best decision you make on your guitar.  Most of all, finding your perfect neck can be almost life-changing for a pro guitar player.  While, looking for a positive change in playing this is it.

Your Replacement Guitar Neck -We will do the following:

  • In performing a 4-axis alignment of the guitar neck your new guitar neck will be checked and adjusted to be true and straight to ensure proper alignment on all 4 axis.  This step almost always ensures proper action and allows for more accurate and easier guitar tuning and playing.  A full set-up will then be performed in the following steps.
  • We level and polish the frets to insure that all of the guitar frets are level, eliminating any possibility of fret buzz due to unevenness.
  • Next, we radius the guitar strings.  Since, most guitar necks have a curved contour over the top of the neck called the radius. We adjust the strings to make sure the height of each string. They perfectly follow the contour of your guitar neck.  Because, once we determine the contour and then we set the radius of the guitar strings. Next, it’s time to adjust the overall height of the strings from the top of the frets to the bottom of the guitar strings accurately.
Replacement Guitar Neck options here: https://haywirecustomguitars.com/guitar-necks/
  • Help you decide on the best materials, neck profile for your technique, comfortable frets, finish and nut for your style. We can use your existing tuners or replace and upgrade them as necessary.
  • In addition, we can re-check the overall guitar string height and the action all while maintaining the radius just created.  The truss rod adjustment is then able to be made here.  The strings will be parallel all the way down the fret board and neck straight.
  • Finally, we set the guitar intonation.  This step is done twice.  The intonation is set two times with a 24 hour “seat-in” period in between to allow the guitar to properly re-seat and settle in with the new adjustments.

No player left behind!

The Total Guitar Neck Replacement Replacement Option Cost is Only $75 Plus Return Shipping + The cost of your custom guitar neck

Get: Guitar Neck Replacement, Fret leveling, Nut filing
Custom Guitar Neck Contours, Custom guitar neck shaping, thinning, shaving and profiling

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Guitar Service All in One Place

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Do You Need the following guitar service?
Affordable Guitar Repair
Quick turnaround time
Most guitar services covered: damaged necks, electronic repair, setups, guitar neck replacement…
Our services include but are not limited to:
Custom Built Guitars,in addition we handle other repairs.

Guitar Service All in One Place

Guitar Repairs
8 Point Tune Up
Guitar Modifications, Hardware installation
Custom Neck Building, Neck repair and Reshaping
Full Guitar Set-Ups
Fret Leveling and Fret Crowning
Guitar Pickup Replacement, Pickup installation
Special Circuits
Custom Guitar Repairs
Volume and Tone Mods, Electronics and wiring modification
Recessed Heel Crest
Guitar Re-Fretting
Heel Crest Reduction
Treble Bleed Circuits
Super-wide Neck Replacement 1-5/8″ to 1-7/8″
Guitar Neck Shaving
Super-slim Neck Replacement
Guitar Neck Replacement, Fret leveling, Nut filing
Custom Guitar Neck Contours, custom guitar neck shaping, thinning and profiling
Guitar Service

The most needed and most important service in overall Guitar Services has to be: Guitar Setup.
What is a guitar setup?

What is a guitar setup? Why is it important? Does a guitar need a setup? Where do I get a setup? A setup is a series of adjustments to keep all of the components of your guitar playing right, Working parts in a guitar need balance. In other words, a good setup will make you guitar play great. We adjust the neck, bridge, nut, frets (leveling) pickups, action and intonation. Your guitar needs to play better than it did when it came out of the factory. Why-because they don’t do a setup there because leave that part to you. Some guitar services include a setup. If not, then ask for one.
Whatever your guitar needs give us a call. We’ll do it fast.
If your guitar neck is cracked or broken-call us to repair it quickly.
Call: Haywire Custom Guitars
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Rick Mariner Mr. Rick Mariner Owner and Founder and CEO of Haywire Custom Guitars Inc. He is a member of The Association of Stringed Instrument Artisans (A.S.I.A.) as well as a guitar player. Rick holds a bachelors degree from University of Md. and a Masters degree from George Washington University. Rick developed his exclusive 8 – Point “Gig- Ready” guitar process that allows for Custom Guitars that are “GIG-READY”. With Rick’s many years of development and guitar set-up experience, Haywire Guitar shop “Builds satisfied players… one Haywire guitar at a time”.

Guitar Tuning

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In guitar tuning, a temperament is a tuning system that slightly
bends to find middle ground to the pure intervals of pure intonation. Most modern musical instruments are tuned in the equal temperament system. So “perfect tuning” is a search never mastered. It’s an ideal never realized in guitar tuning.
Trussrod view relax and tighten for better action and intonation
“Temperament, in music, the accommodation or adjustment of the imperfect sounds by transferring a part of their defects to the more perfect ones, in order to remedy, in some degree, the false intervals of those instruments, the sounds of which are fixed; as the organ, harpsichord, piano-forte, etc.
Temperament is what the Italians call participatione, or system temperato, because it is founded on temperature; that is, on the diminution of some intervals and augmentation of others, by which it partakes of the diatonic and chromatic systems.” according to Wiki Musical temperament notes.

Perfect Guitar Tuning

Can perfect guitar tuning be achieved? Sorry, it cannot. But we can get very close. It is impossible to place the frets on the guitar so that all notes
on the instrument will be perfectly in tune in every key — simply impossible, because of the way tuning works. However in the shop, when building and setting up guitars, we take all of this into consideration.
Proper intonation is what makes a guitar’s strings play in tune as you fret different notes on the fret board. If the 12th fret note is flat or sharp, your intonation is off. On most electric guitars you can adjust the intonation for each string individually at the bridge with each saddle.
A fret notched straightedge for guitar neck being checked for string buzz, action and intonation in The Haywire Custom Shop

The height of the strings at the nut


Very often, the strings are too high at the nut. As with the action when it is too high, chords will be very difficult to play, particularly near the nut.
Normally, the strings at the nut should barely be higher than the height of a fret.
Locking tuners just make string changes faster and have a cleaner look.
Locking tuners do nothing for tuning stability. Anyone who says they do doesn’t know how to properly wind a string around a traditional tuning peg. What they will do is take a well balanced guitar and make the neck nose dive from the huge extra weight added. Is that what you had in mind?

12-Tone Equal Temperament

12-Tone Equal Temperament guitar tuning is difficult. This is the musical scale which “ordinary” guitars are constructed for – in theory. In reality, the best that can be achieved is a close approximation to Equal Temper.
How do we solve the problem of imperfect guitar tuning? We set the guitar up properly, cut the nut slots just right, radius the strings to the neck. Then we set the action low, lubricate all friction points, set the intonation at the saddles correctly. In addition, and get the action very low, check again to make sure the truss rod is set perfectly. Lastly we tune the guitar with an accurate digital tuner to get to notes dialed in perfectly.
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Rick Mariner Mr. Rick Mariner Owner and Founder and CEO of Haywire Custom Guitars Inc. He is a member of The Association of Stringed Instrument Artisans (A.S.I.A.) as well as a guitar player. Rick holds a bachelors degree from University of Md. and a Masters degree from George Washington University. Rick developed his exclusive 8 – Point “Gig- Ready” guitar process that allows for Custom Guitars that are “GIG-READY”. With Rick’s many years of development and guitar set-up experience, Haywire Guitar shop “Builds satisfied players… one Haywire guitar at a time”.

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