80's Vester Restoration

This cool 80’s Vester was in the workshop for a restoration! 
The work included sorting the wiring, fitting new locking machineheads, hand making a custom trussrod cover along with recrowning and hand polishing the frets!

The trussrod cover was definitely not original, had our suspicions it was from an old Eko acoustic. It was a bit like Swiss cheese under the cover! 
A template was cut for the new cover, hiding the unwanted holes plus in the style of an 80’s guitar. We used plastic from a used scratchplate to match in with the wear on the ages headstock.
The new hand cut cover made and fitted!

The wiring before and after, complete with unwanted out of phase pickups and a crossthread jacksocket. After sorting the pickup phasing, fitting a new switchcraft jacksocket and giving the wiring a bit of a tidy.​

​The old machineheads had worn through years of use and had become unreliable. The new machineheads were locking Hipshot tuners supplied by BTN Music

The new ones fitted, the great thing about theses machineheads is the unique mounting plate, which doesn’t involve drilling and more holes and actually hides most of the worn original ones!

​The new machineheads finished the  headstock!

The frets were worn for years of use and needed a recrown to give playablity back into the frets.
After the recrown, most of the fretwear was removed but the level of the frets remained untouched. After the hand polish the frets were restored to a high shine.

With all the work complete, the guitar was setup and ready to gig!