Hurricane Custom Guitars and Repairs

This is a pickguard upgrade I did on the Hurricane Texas Blackout guitar. In this particular application
the wooden pickguard does not have any tonal benefits such as a Strat style or acoustic guitar style pickguard would have because the pickguard is suspended above the body of the guitar rather than mounted directly to the deck of the guitar. Never the less, a wooden pickguard can be cut in many shapes with many different graphics to customize the pickguard. And with this pickguard, the finish matches the body of the guitar and blends in with the look of the guitar without standing out providing a cleaner look. A coating of EMI shielding paint has been applied to the back of the pickguard but since the pickguard does not cover any electronics, the EMI paint really has no benefit other than to protect the wood of the pickguard. Still, the pickguard can be customized in a huge number of ways a plastic pickguard cannot be. Plus you are limited to what ever plastics are available. In this case, I wanted the red on black look. A sandwiched black, red, black plastic was not available.

Hurricane Custom Guitars and Repairs Hurricane is a Luthier shop. The main objective of Hurricane is to design and handcraft electric guitars. The next objective is to perform the best setup and repairs possible with quality in mind.

On this repair, the OHMs switch was bad. The switch would not come off of the 16 OHMS's setting. Replaced the switch with an original Peavy switch then performed a complete amp tune up which included, testing all tubes, setting the output tube bias, cleaning all electrical connections such as pots, switches, tube sockets and plugs. An amp tune up makes a huge difference in the sound and reduces buzz, squeals and hums and insures the pots don't sound scratchy.

Texas Rose The new “Texas Rose” is almost completed. This is Hurricanes newest project. This guitar features:

Myths about guitar finishes.

Does different finishes affect tone. This has been a fun project. Originally, this BC Rich was not a playable guitar. One of the bridge studs had some buggered threads so the bridge post would not thread in leaving the strings way too high off the fret boar...

Hurricane Custom Guitars and Repairs
We can repair your electric, acoustic and bass guitars. We do restringing, full setups, hardware and electronics mods and repairs and many more repairs. See us at Hurricane Custom Guitars and Repairs for more information.