What guitar part do you always seem to need?
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What guitar part do you always seem to need?
Hey guys,
I was thinking last night about how often I seem to need certain guitar parts and I only ever buy one at a time. Shipping from guitarparts.co.nz is a bit more expensive now with the minimum order, so I figured I should start buying a few spares. I've actually been buying and recommending stuff from tonelounge (thanks Matt) because the free shipping makes life much easier, but they don't stock specific parts.
I always seem to need:
- Output jacks. For students and whatever guitar comes through. Luckily I bought a bag of 25 switchcraft ones ages back but I am getting low now.
- Threeway toggle switches and switch tips. For some reason so many people ask me for these! Oh and the tele barrel switch tips too.
- Pickguard screws. The number of times I've seen a guitar with rusty screws that I've been desperate to replace...
- Pots are an obvious one, so I might keep a few cheapies in the parts box from now on.
What part do you seem to always run out of and need to buy? Let's all stock up.
I was thinking last night about how often I seem to need certain guitar parts and I only ever buy one at a time. Shipping from guitarparts.co.nz is a bit more expensive now with the minimum order, so I figured I should start buying a few spares. I've actually been buying and recommending stuff from tonelounge (thanks Matt) because the free shipping makes life much easier, but they don't stock specific parts.
I always seem to need:
- Output jacks. For students and whatever guitar comes through. Luckily I bought a bag of 25 switchcraft ones ages back but I am getting low now.
- Threeway toggle switches and switch tips. For some reason so many people ask me for these! Oh and the tele barrel switch tips too.
- Pickguard screws. The number of times I've seen a guitar with rusty screws that I've been desperate to replace...
- Pots are an obvious one, so I might keep a few cheapies in the parts box from now on.
What part do you seem to always run out of and need to buy? Let's all stock up.
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Re: What guitar part do you always seem to need?
I’ve got a fuckload of used pots (mostly 500k linear) I’ll trade for some other shit.
Tend to need jacks; only “needed” a switch once or twice. Fortunately never needed a nut or a pickup!
Other than that, just strings really. Maybe a pick or two cuz despite my tendency to buy packs of 12 I can’t for the life of me work out where they all go
Tend to need jacks; only “needed” a switch once or twice. Fortunately never needed a nut or a pickup!
Other than that, just strings really. Maybe a pick or two cuz despite my tendency to buy packs of 12 I can’t for the life of me work out where they all go
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Re: What guitar part do you always seem to need?
pickup screws (humbucker) .. I have heaps but none of them seem to fit any of the pickups I have
Pickups in general, always seem to need more
Allen key for the floyds. I can never find the bugger when I need it so I ended up get a thing from mitre 10 that looks a bit like a pocket knife but has 6 different allen keys on it
new strings to put on a guitar once I have built it
Pickups in general, always seem to need more
Allen key for the floyds. I can never find the bugger when I need it so I ended up get a thing from mitre 10 that looks a bit like a pocket knife but has 6 different allen keys on it
new strings to put on a guitar once I have built it
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Re: What guitar part do you always seem to need?
Yeah pickup screws
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Re: What guitar part do you always seem to need?
Got a bag of 250 and 500 CTS pots, Switchcraft jacks, 5 way selectors and all that stuff. I seem to allways be looking for graphite nuts. Any one in NZ carry them ? Iain now being in Aus is just a little too long to wait and quickish freight is nearly cost prohibitive.
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Re: What guitar part do you always seem to need?
$15 to post the stuff is pretty rude
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Re: What guitar part do you always seem to need?
Pickup ring screws have always got me in the past!
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Re: What guitar part do you always seem to need?
I had one of those pocket knife allen key things. Used it a few times and then a piece of allen key broke off and got stuck in the space. It was a pain in the ass to get out!willow13 wrote:pickup screws (humbucker) .. I have heaps but none of them seem to fit any of the pickups I have
Pickups in general, always seem to need more
Allen key for the floyds. I can never find the bugger when I need it so I ended up get a thing from mitre 10 that looks a bit like a pocket knife but has 6 different allen keys on it
new strings to put on a guitar once I have built it
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Re: What guitar part do you always seem to need?
yeah I can certainly see that happening at some point. Thankfully I hardly ever need to undo the nuts to tune and I almost never change strings so it should last a whileZaulkin wrote:
I had one of those pocket knife allen key things. Used it a few times and then a piece of allen key broke off and got stuck in the space. It was a pain in the ass to get out!
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Re: What guitar part do you always seem to need?
willow13 wrote:yeah I can certainly see that happening at some point. Thankfully I hardly ever need to undo the nuts to tune and I almost never change strings so it should last a whileZaulkin wrote:
I had one of those pocket knife allen key things. Used it a few times and then a piece of allen key broke off and got stuck in the space. It was a pain in the ass to get out!
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It was literally like the 3rd time I used it, still annoys me now.willow13 wrote:yeah I can certainly see that happening at some point. Thankfully I hardly ever need to undo the nuts to tune and I almost never change strings so it should last a whileZaulkin wrote:
I had one of those pocket knife allen key things. Used it a few times and then a piece of allen key broke off and got stuck in the space. It was a pain in the ass to get out!
So 6 years from now when you change your strings, be careful.
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Re: What guitar part do you always seem to need?
Gavitt and surgical tubing.
Correct humbucker screws and springs because sellers often think it's ok to keep them.
Correct humbucker screws and springs because sellers often think it's ok to keep them.
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Re: What guitar part do you always seem to need?
I keep a stockpile of those for that reason.Molly wrote:Gavitt and surgical tubing.
Correct humbucker screws and springs because sellers often think it's ok to keep them.
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Re: What guitar part do you always seem to need?
stressed from work, i read this thread as "What guitar do you always seem to need?"
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Re: What guitar part do you always seem to need?
Try driving down to collect it.Single coil wrote:$15 to post the stuff is pretty rude
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