Roberts Instrument Repairs and Accessories

Epiphone Joe Pass

We had a gorgeous Epiphone Joe Pass jazz guitar come in that the customer wanted some heavier strings fitting and then a setup doing.

We removed the old strings and then lemon oiled the fret board to clean and rehydrate it and cleaned the body.

We checked the tightness of all the hardware and then fitted the new strings. The strings the customer chose to use were the Thomastic JS112 Flatwounds. After checking and measuring the neck relief we adjusted the truss rod to the correct relief.

The string height at the first fret was checked for each string and found the nut grooves needed cutting to the correct depth. The nut being cut properly is important, because set too high makes the guitar harder to play, and if not cut for the correct string gauge, the strings can stick in the grooves causing tuning problems.

With neck relief set and nut grooves cut properly, we set the action to the correct height and then set the intonation.With the action being altered, we re-set the pickup heights and plugged the guitar in. The guitar felt great to play and the flat wound strings gave the guitar a nice mellow sound.

The guitar was then returned to a very happy customer.