Head stock repair, neck repairs, guitar brace and crack repair
Head stocks and guitar neck repairs
Crack repair
Brace repair
Bridge repair and replacements
Guitar neck shaving, thinning , re-profiling and more…
Most importantly, We can fix broken guitar necks in less than a week for you
Haywire Custom Guitars
features: Expert Electric and acoustic Guitar repairs. Also, upgrades,
mods and fast service. Serving Myrtle Beach and Conway, and Horry
County, SC. Experienced technician will keep your guitar playing the
best it can play! Haywire Custom Shop will also repair and modify other
stringed instruments. Including our “One Day Urgent Care Guitar Repair“. Set up an appointment today-call 843-347-5742
Guitar Repairs for all guitar including: PRS, Ibanez, Jackson, Gretsch, Squier,
In addition: Gibson, Taylor, Fender, Martin, Guild, Seagull ,Yamaha,
Ovation, Washburn, Epiphone, G&L, Rickenbacker, ESP, Schecter and
many others.
Haywire Custom Guitars -Custom Shop
We fix all guitars! Haywire Custom Guitars – Custom Builds Super-Double Fat Guitar
Haywire Custom Guitars-Serving Myrtle Beach SC, Conway and the Surrounding Area
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”.
Send your neck to us at Haywire Custom Shop. On Urethane and
polyester finishes sometimes the sweat from your hand will slow you
down. Even on some Lacquer finishes with a high shine this can occur.
Water between your hand and a high gloss finish can “grab” and suddenly
stop you. It can be very irritating to be on your way to a great riff
then get stopped! So, what do you do? Send it to us here at the shop.
We will “Satinize” your finish so the grab from your hand sweat will not
be nearly as noticeable. Contrary to some thinking, a matte or satin
finish on a neck will feel and play much faster. It will allow for your
hands to travel up and down the neck unimpeded. When the gloss is
knocked off of the finish the stickiness will disappear.
Dirt on necks will slow down playing on a guitar neck
Some general housekeeping on your guitar will help it play faster.
Dirt combined with sweat can make it gummy. You can rub it out to make
it more slippery and not as gummy and slow. Some lemon juice and salt
will work. Mineral spirits will clean a neck too.Keep your instrument
clean for better playing.
Action on the back of your guitar neck
Guitar players speak about the “neck action” often. Action is referred to as: “the
height of the strings above the fret board or distance from the top of
the frets . It is also used to describe the general ease, feel and
ability of a guitar to play effortlessly. However, these terms and
descriptions refer to the front of a guitar neck. Rarely does anyone
speak about the “action on the back of the neck”. This kind of action
is just as important as the action on the neck front on a guitar. Why?
Well an often heard complaint is my neck is slowing me down. If the
action solutions have been addressed on the top of or front of your
guitar neck then what’s left? Of course-the back! That’s where we come
in. The Haywire Custom shop will address all concerns you have
EVERYWHERE on your guitar. The neck profile finish is no exception. So,
let’s get you playing your guitar faster.
The relationship of neck back finish to playing speed
A satin finish is between a high shine and matte finish (no sheen).
Replacing the sheen is a great way to speed up the feel and action on
the back of your guitar neck. Your fingers act like suction cups on a
high sheen finish. Like frogs feet your fingers are more likely to stick
on a glossy surface. Frogs prefer glassy and shiny surfaces such as
windows. They can stick like glue on them. They’ll hang there for long
periods of time. However they rarely stick to a non-shiny or matte
surface. If they’re smart enough to know the difference-shouldn’t we be?
The same principle applies to guitar necks. If you want a faster
neck-with no sticking, then don’t add a sheen to the surface. Let us
speed up the action on the front and back of your guitar neck.
“Just $55.00 plus return shipping back to you will get guitar neck faster more comfortable for you.
Best of all, no waiting. We work on the neck as soon as it gets here. the turn around time is 2 days or less from when we receive it”.
2 things to remember when shipping to us:
Firstly, Ship with the US Post Office. They are less expensive and much more careful with your packages from our experience.
Second, Forget buying “signature required” services. Our postal carriers know where to leave the neck safely and securely.
These two tips will save you money, save time by getting us the neck sooner and delivered safely.
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”.
Head stock repair, guitar neck repair, guitar brace and crack repair and much more
Head stocks and guitar neck repairs
Crack repair
Brace repair
Bridge repair and replacements
Guitar neck shaving, thinning , re-profiling and more…
Most importantly, We can fix broken guitar necks in less than a week for you
Haywire Custom Guitars
features: Expert Electric and acoustic Guitar repairs. Also, upgrades,
mods and fast service. Serving Myrtle Beach and Conway, and Horry
County, SC. Experienced technician will keep your guitar playing the
best it can play! Haywire Custom Shop will also repair and modify other
stringed instruments. Including our “One Day Urgent Care Guitar Repair“. Set up an appointment today-call 843-347-5742
Guitar Repairs for all guitar including: PRS, Ibanez, Jackson, Gretsch, Squier,
In addition: Gibson, Taylor, Fender, Martin, Guild, Seagull ,Yamaha,
Ovation, Washburn, Epiphone, G&L, Rickenbacker, ESP, Schecter and
many others.
Haywire Custom Guitars -Custom Shop
We fix all guitars! Haywire Custom Guitars – Custom Builds Super-Double Fat Guitar
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”.
New guitar necks? The ideal electric guitar neck is one that is
comfortable for YOU. Want the best replacement guitar necks available?
What are they? They are simply the ones that suit your style and
comfort. By investing so much time in listening to guitar players, we’re
able to produce a perfect guitar neck. Most importantly, it not only
looks good, but is a superior choice in comfort and feel for you when
playing all night long. We care about customer needs and satisfaction
with our work. We take time finishing and assembling your guitar when
adding new guitar necks, bodies, parts and strings.
Options on Your Guitar Neck
We offer you as a guitar player, what YOU want. Some custom shops will try and sell stuff they have simply to make money. At Haywire Custom shop we help you buy what you need so you’ll come back because you like how you’re treated. New guitar necks
have lots of options. For example, “alternate” scale replacement necks
for those looking for a different feel as in a 24-3/4″ Gibson scale on
their Strat or Tele. We know you need fret size, nut size, truss rods,
inlays, fingerboard radius, back contours, thickness, wood, and head
stock shapes. So, we do it. We do what you need for your comfort. We offer guitar necks for sale that you need. Installation on purchased guitar necks is free!
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.
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.
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.
Guitar Neck Shaping and Carving will improve the feel and action of a guitar. If done properly a player will benefit from a slimmer thinner neck. Guitarists with smaller hands will especially feel a difference in the neck thickness. In turn, this will facilitate their playing style and speed. Neck shaping is one of the best custom guitar modifications a player can do for themselves if necks are too thick.
carving and shaping a guitar neck
Most players want their guitar neck to be shaped symmetrically all the way down. I used to use a digital caliper gauge to check for symmetry and thickness. After several years I have gotten to the point where I could feel if it was the shape I was seeking. Running my hand across the surface will give me a good idea how close I am to final shaping. As far as thickness, the thickness of the neck to be what the player specifies. After all, I'm not doing the necks for me but for the owner of the guitar.
For example if he wants the neck a standard thin, then the first fret to be about 0.800″ and at the 12th fret about 0.92″ unless the customer specifies something else. These dimensions seem to be comfortable to most average players. The key is to help players all over the spectrum not simply average players.
final guitar neck shaping measurements
Once I get close to the final size the customer needs the calipers come out more frequently. When the guitar neck is carved and shaped to where it needs to be I'll sand, smooth and add a finish to protect it. If it's a neck someone has brought in, then I'll match the finish to color and style. It's perfect if it looks like nothing has been done to it. My feeling is the less invasive the better. Sometimes the entire neck has to be reshaped for a player so they can play more comfortably. In the end, that why we do guitar neck shaping, for the players.
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The fingerboard, or playing surface of your guitar neck, is usually curved or radiused across its width. The purpose of this radius is to accommodate the natural ergonomic shape of your fingers when they are in playing position. Comfort is certainly a major factor in selecting a fingerboard radius but it is not the only factor. Musical Style... the fingerboard radius must also allow you to play the style of music you prefer.
Why is fingerboard radius important?
The fingerboard radius, the curve or arc across the top of your guitar neck varies from neck to neck. It's easy to spot on most electric guitar and bass fingerboards. Almost none of them are flat. Most guitar and bass necks have a light curvature across their width. The smaller the radius, then the more curved the top of the radius will be. Hence, a larger the radius the flatter the top of the board is. Over the years the most common ones are: smaller vintage-style 7.25″ radius, 12" and the modern 9.5" . These are all readily available.
New age fingerboard neck radius choices
Today there are lots of choices from 7.5" all the way up to 20" radius boards. These will accommodate and make most any player happy. A guitar player today will have a lot of custom guitar neck choices to fit his style and comfort. If not the there are lots of choices in between. For example, compound-radius fingerboard is a fairly new option that some guitarists find attractive. The fingerboard is more rounded near the 1st fret area and then flattens out closer to the 12fth fret area. So almost any choice is available to a guitar player today. Haywire Custom guitars offers any fingerboard radius choice that a guitar player needs to be comfortable and play like he wants to play.
There is no right or wrong choice for players. Whatever suits a players comfort level, their personal preferences are all available from us here at haywire Custom Shop. It's important that a guitar player knows he has a choice.
Haywire Custom Guitars features: Expert Electric and acoustic Guitar
repairs. Also, upgrades, mods and fast service. Serving Myrtle Beach
and Conway, and Horry County SC. Experienced technician will keep your
guitar playing the best it can play! Haywire Custom Shop will also
repair and modify other stringed instruments. Including our “One Day Urgent Care Guitar Repair“. Set up an appointment today-call 843-347-5742
Guitar Repairs and Maintenance
Guitar repairs include: New guitar strings for your guitar
Full 8-point setups
Intonation Setups
Action and truss rod adjustments, fret levels, alignments and more
Guitars for children
Light weight guitars for women
Guitar Fret renew and repair
Re-fret
Fret level
Re-Crown
Polish new work and test
Recessed Heel Crest Option
All guitar adjustments
Electronics upgrade and custom guitar mods
Electronic modifications on all stringed instruments
New Pickup installation
Wiring customization with new pots, switches, tone controls, 7 Sound switching and Treble Bleed circuits
Personalized upgrades and modifications
Guitar neck shaving, thinning, profiling
Hardware replacement and repairs
Hardware customization
Cosmetic enhancements
Guitar Nut repair and replacement bone and graphite
Nut replacement
Saddle replacement
Fabrication from blank materials
Head stock repair, neck repair, guitar brace and crack repair
Head stocks
Crack repair
Brace repair
Bridge repair and replacements
Photo before neck break repair on a Les Paul at Haywire Custom Guitars
Guitar Repairs for all guitar including: PRS, Ibanez, Jackson,
Gretsch, Squier, Gibson, Taylor, Fender, Martin, Guild, Seagull ,Yamaha,
Ovation
Washburn, Epiphone, G&L, Rickenbacker, ESP, Schecter and many others.
Haywire Guitar Repairs is your place for expert stringed instrument
repairs, upgrades and servicing. Every Guitar is handled by an
experienced guitar technician. We get your guitar in peak playing
condition. Check Haywire guitars official website. Largest guitar shop
in the Myrtle Beach area with the deals on new and used guitars. Stop in
for new guitars, guitar ideas, guitar repairs, guitar upgrades.
Professional guitar service and guitar repair in the Myrtle Beach, SC
area.
Communicate The Shape For Shaving Down My Guitar Neck
Guitar Neck Shaving
Haywire Custom Shop Custom Neck shave before and after
QUESTION:
Hi Rick,
I saw your website about your services including shaving down a guitar neck.
A couple questions:
How would I communicate the shape I wanted ?
Would I ship the whole guitar to your shop ?
How long would it take, approximately ?
Is the base price $135 plus return shipping ?
Thank you !
ANSWER:
Thank you for stopping by the website and taking time to write about Guitar Neck Shaving .
The best way to communicate what you need is to either work with
specs from your existing neck or send a neck along with the one you’d
like shaved.
Ideally the neck you send should be what you’d liked duplicated on the neck to be shaved.
If you want to work from the existing neck then move the strings
and take measurements with a digital caliper as we do every time a neck
comes in to the shop.
From those measurements you will better be able to determine how much you want removed to make it a better playing neck for you.
Here is a typical example of what takes place when we get a neck in the shop to be shaved:
In this way we can get the reduction as close as possible within a few thousandths.
There are other ways as well, such as you can say, “I’d like a 20% reduction” and we can go from there.
The more specific you can be the better the outcome. We can duplicate anything you send us as well.
The other consideration is the back profile and if you’d like it to stay the same or if you want a change.
Firstly, when in the middle of a gig do you notice some hand fatigue, inability to reach notes or the feeling there's something slowing you down? Did you ever pick up a friends guitar and say to yourself, "I wish my guitar felt this good". Have you found a guitar somewhere that looks exactly like your and had to go grab it to see what it felt like? Most importantly, were you surprised? Likely it didn't feel like yours did it? Players begin the customization process the very day they get a new guitar. Guitar neck reshaping is often desired but hardly attained without the proper resources.
Guitar neck reshaping is often desired.........
There are many possibilities for better playing guitars. For example: a neck that allows you to change the scale length of your 25-1/2" Fender scale guitar to the shorter Gibson scale of 24-3/4". This kind of customization shortens the distance between frets and lowers string tension for easier, quicker playing. Thought about it? Never heard about it? It's very attainable for any player who is desiring a change. Some players need a change as in guitar neck reshaping but can't really verbalize what they need. Instead we'll often hear, "this guitar is uncomfortable, it's hard to play, my hands ache after a while or I can't play as fast as I want to. The spectrum of player comfort is extremely wide.
The spectrum of player comfort is extremely wide.....
Guitars are manufactured for "sales" not your comfort. Companies build in the middle of the spectrum to "general players" with "average hands" with "average" needs. They take nothing into account regarding the comfort or needs of players "outside" the middle of the spectrum.
So, if your an average guy, with average hands and middle of the road in every way-you'll be fine with an general off-the-rack guitar built for average sales produced by almost every guitar company. As a result, because of your style differences, hand size, physical limitations, unusual playing style you don't fall in the "middle of the spectrum" so we can help. Guitar neck reshaping an existing can be the best customization ever for you and your guitar neck. Your guitar neck contour or back shape of the neck is important for optimum play-ability and hand comfort. $135 plus return shipping may be the best money you ever spent on your guitar. Call us 843-347-5742 or email us : haywire@sccoast.net
In conclusion, you'll need help to determine which guitar neck reshaping process works best for your playing comfort. Think about a comparison with a neck you know that you already prefer. Above all, if you know what you need then you're 90% there then we can get you all the way there. Compare the dimensions of the neck you'd like to change to those of your "favorite" neck for a start. A set of digital calipers is all you need to do that!
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