Thinking of starting an imaginary grocery shopping inspired indie band called Floss & The Rockets. The guitars will jangle and fizz with lemonade reverb and fight for attention with those tortured and distorted vocals shoved well down in the mix. This is about as far as that idea will ever get.
A few rainy days ago: My 30+ years old 335 type Washburn has been in dry dock for repairs recently. The solder had gone bad on the input jack and the guitar was effectively silent. Arguably no bad thing in the opinion of some folks. Anyway without easy access to the guts of these beasts as there's no back passage, it's down to removing what you can using a fat, knotted guitar string to pull the relevant bits through the "f" holes. Bit of a bugger and swearfest of a fiddly job - but I made it without personal injury or much damage.
It was a struggle to pull the socket backwards and out the "f" hole, fix it on the surface and reverse pull it back in and tighten it up, but it seems OK now. In the process I cracked two of the four amber speed knobs and via my mixed up parts bin refitted four Fender style knobs which I think look rather spiffing as a hybrid and emergency modification. Then I tightened up the truss rod a bit, checked the intonation and it's all good to go ... back into it's case. I've got too many guitars. No you can't have it.
Good to have it back!
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