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Repair gallery and bench work

Repair photos are useful. Repair stories are better. See what came in, what the bench found, what changed, and where the work usually leads.

Bench gallery

Repair job gallery

Life's too short for a bad setup. Check out some of the repairs, restorations, and setup work that brought these instruments back to life.

Repair stories

Problem. Diagnosis. Repair. Result.

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Before / After Setups Fretwork Electronics Acoustic Odd Bench Jobs
Guitar repair bench photo from BadMonkey Music
Bench photo

Setup and fretwork bench detail

Close-up repair-bench photo used to document playability issues, fret condition and setup work.

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Guitar fretwork and setup detail from the BadMonkey Music bench
Fretwork

Fret and neck inspection

Bench documentation for checking whether a buzz is setup-related or coming from the fret surface.

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Tele style guitar wiring repair photo
Electronics

Tele wiring inspection

Control-cavity and wiring work for diagnosing signal problems, pickup changes and unreliable connections.

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Broken guitar output jack wire repair photo
Output jack

Broken jack wire diagnosis

A small wiring fault can become a no-signal failure. This is the kind of issue the bench documents before repair.

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Cleaned up guitar wiring repair photo
Wiring

Cleaned-up wiring path

Repair work should make the signal path more reliable, easier to inspect and less likely to fail later.

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Instrument repair photo from the BadMonkey Music bench
Repair bench

Hardware and setup inspection

Photos like this help show what the bench is actually evaluating before recommending the next repair step.

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Live bench feed

More repair photos

Additional gallery items from the BadMonkey Music admin feed appear here when published.

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What a setup includes

A complete setup may include tightening and lubing tuners, cleaning and conditioning the fingerboard, polishing frets, adjusting neck relief, addressing nut and saddle height, setting string height at the nut and 12th fret, setting intonation, detailing the body and cleaning/lubing electronics when appropriate.

Good bench rule

If a cheap adjustment will solve the problem, you should know that. If the guitar needs deeper work, you should know that too. The point is not to sell work. The point is to make the guitar perform.