One of the upgrades/replacements that I made to the Fernandes FR-95 that I own was to the floating bridge system. I actually like the Fernandes floating bridge system with their horizontal fine tuners, but back in the 90s I think "import guitars" in general were not known for using the best hardware. In this case the tremolo block in the bridge was pretty tiny and made of a grey, unknown metal - definitely not steel but I don't know if you could class it as "pot metal". Figur

It's been a while now since I purchased my Fernandes FR-95S from Japan. So I thought I would update this blog with the latest on this guitar. I have done quite a lot of work to it but this blog post will speak specifically to some if the onboard electronics. I am by no means an electronics expert - I struggle through and most of the time I'll get a result but I'm a beginner at best. That's why I have included lots of photos, hopefully these are helpful for anyone reading the

I setup most of my own guitars about once every 1-1.5 years, or on an as needed basis. This is more of a diary post to record what my and measurements are at this current point in time. This post will deal with Strat style guitars, but some of these measurements apply across all my guitars. I am no luthier, there may be misinformation in this post - as I said this is more of a post for my own reference, as I have changed these steps countless times over the years whenever I

So how do you improve on this guitar? Well, besides getting rid of the rotary switch and installing a push/push pot system for coil taps, there's not much I would do. The guitar itself plays great and feels great. So I decided to change out some of the parts to see if I could get it to look even better than it already does. I identified 3 things I would like to change out: Pickup rings: I actually love the way PRS does faux body binding (although I'm not sure that's what t

So how do you improve on this guitar? Well, besides getting rid of the rotary switch and installing a push/push pot system for coil taps, there's not much I would do. The guitar itself plays great and feels great. So I decided to change out some of the parts to see if I could get it to look even better than it already does. I identified 3 things I would like to change out: Pickup rings: I actually love the way PRS does faux body binding (although I'm not sure that's wha