Synyster Gates

Schecter Synyster Gates set up

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• published: 10 Dec 2014
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** Caution! Long and mostly real-time video showing the full set up process for customers and prospective customers of Reloved Guitars. This video is NOT intended for entertainment purposes ** Here we have an interesting beast - the Schecter Synyster Gates Custom guitar. At first glance this fairly expensive metal-oriented guitar seemed perfect; no real apparent problems. Things were made a bit more difficult in that I had not met or spoken to the owner so didn't know what they weren't happy with. I only knew they weren't happy with it (after having taken it to another guitar tech in their area). No pressure there then! With this guitar I had to trust that doing my usual full fret-levelling set up would improve the guitar and hopefully make it feel better for the owner. I did think the action was high when I got it so was confident that I could improve that. The video shows me levelling, re-profiling and polishing the frets and then restringing and setting the action. The nut action is fixed by the locking nut base and (to my mind) was a little higher than I'd want for a guitar but I had no option but to leave it as it was. The finished guitar has an action of 1.1mm at the last fret so hopefully Tom (who I finally met on Facebook AFTER finishing the work) will enjoy the new, lower faster feel of this guitar.