Nephew 'steals' prized K Yairi guitar

READER'S LETTER

I HAD a "K Yairi" guitar for about 24 years and failed to learn how to play it. My nephew borrowed it about two years ago now, which I guess means he is now the owner. I think that transfer happened much more quickly in his mind, perhaps around the time he first laid his thieving mitts on it.
The modern teen does not recognise the rights or relevance of anyone over 40 unless their name is Jimmy Page. But I'll show him your blog and refer this website to him http://www.yairi.com/ so he can see "the dovetail slide show" and how "his" Yairi is put together.
Obviously I am enjoying a dayinthelifeofaguitar…..

Cheers,

David C

Wow, what a guitar

HERE it is at long last. The hybrid guitar that I created, or rather rebuilt, after buying the essential elements at garage sales for a total of just $10.

It wasn't easy. I'll get to the details of the task at a later date. Enough to say now. It works well.

The neck and all the electrical components came across to mate with the lonely body, keeping the standard strat-style 5-position switch, which I mounted in the sound hole to save rewiring.

AS far as wiring goes, all I had to do was extend the pick-up lead wires a few centimetres. I cut mounts for the pickups from the old scratchplate. It has been interesting to mount the strat's front and middle pickups close together in the front position. This appears to have given an unusual tonal variation when flicking through the pickup combinations.

A FEW slight adjustments are still needed to be made ... filing down the frets where the old neck suffered severe trauma, with the holes now plugged with dowel. I'll do this next time I have the strings off. And maybe give it a better finish as it has just a light protective coat because I didn't want to spend time 'finishing' it before I knew it would be worthwhile. It sure is!

NOW for some playing. See you later.