Heywood Guitar Doctor

10/09/2026

Connor's gorgeous J*p built Eddie Cochrane signature Gretsch on the bench. Its had the usual service setup, clean & polish and detached vibrato arm re-attached. Loverlyyy!

06/09/2026

Rory's stunning circa 1986 Lowden S10. It's had a light clean and restoration and a LR Baggs HiFi Duet discreat under-sound board pickup and internal microphone installed and setup, frets have been lightly dressed and polished, fingerboard cleaned and waxed, back of neck stickyness removed and a subtle clean up of the whole guitar revealing this wonderful patina. Strung with 10-48 flat phosphor bronze strings and setup for E standard. The tone and sustain is beautiful. A rare moment on the HGD bench.☺️

05/09/2026

Derek's Gibson 70s Reissue Flying Vee. Gotoh locking tuners installed, bridge pickup replaced with a EMG passive pickup and wired up to be compatible with the standard neck pickup, frets leveled and dressed where necessary, restrung and setup for E Standard tuning, and a clean and polish.

28/08/2026

Steves Strat Ultra II on the bench. Fret dress and polish, restrung with Elixir 9-46 and setup for E standard tuning.

20/08/2026

Graham's Les Paul on the bench for a fettle. Pickups replaced with a set of Seymour Duncans, installed and rewired with a new set of CTS pots and orange drop capacitors, fingerboard edges rolled and frets dressed and polished, lightweight titanium stop-tail supplied and installed, nut reprofiled, restrung with Elixir 10's and setup for E standard tuning.

18/08/2026

Ian's brand new USA Ricky 330 in Fireglow on the bench for a new guitar setup. Restrung with Elixir 10s and setup for E standard. Gorgeous!

16/08/2026

Derry's Spear les Paul style guitar on the bench. Fingerboard edges rolled and polished, back of neck deglossed, fret edges rounded and polished, nut profile improved, 3 ways switch tightened, electrics checked, re-strung with Elixir 10s, clean and polish.

14/08/2026

Andy's (from band Middletones) Ricky on the bench for a setup and electrics check, plus restring ahead of forthcoming gig at The Middleton Arena 15/8/26. (always a cracking night)

13/08/2026

Marks lovely Made in J*pan Fender Jazz bass on the bench. Fingerboard edges rolled, frets ends smoothed and polished, fret tops leveled, dressed and pol;ished, intonation adjusted, truss rod adjusted, electric checked and pots tighted, pickup heights optimised, final setup made to suit 45-105 strings tuned E standard, and a clean and polish. Cracking example.

08/08/2026