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I still occasionally play the partscaster I built 40 years ago. I'm confident to do truss rods and set action. I've never paid someone else. On the other hand, how do I know if I've been doing it right?

I've just taken on 2 new guitars: casino (used) and squire tele. I think they could both do with polishing up of the nut slots to make tuning  more precise.

I can buy files or take it to a repairer. Thoughts?

I did this on my partscaster years ago -except its 4 switches. I think i actuaĺy inverted the phase on one of them. You can have all the pickups on at the same time or even use 1 & 3, which is impossible on a 5-way. Its a gimmic!

I went Tele, but a used Amp Acadamy came up on ebay so, ....   All done . 

The end

I just found the link to the stuff they were talking about.

https://www.montysguitars.com/collections/department-of-component/products/montys-montypresso-relic-wax

My new Tele is in the mail.  First order of business is to oil the neck.  Now, this is Indian laurel rather than Rosewood.  I was just trawling through youtube and a music store channel was suggesting slightly tinted wax. 

Firstly: wax?

Second: tinted?

Now I like the idea of tint since I prefer the reddish tint of rosewood to the grew brown of Laural if it works, but is that an accepted thing?  We are probably into French Polishing territory here but I thought I would ask.

My wife wants to buy me something.  I don't particularly want anything  (it gets in the way of my ambition to be a minimalist one day), but she feels left out if she doesn't.  So:

New gold Grover machine heads for my Casino.  Just like Lennon, OR

NUX NGS-6 amp academy box, so I can go ampless and feed my tone out to a PA rig.

A cheap tele - because everyone should have one and no one makes unplayable guitars anymore.

The starting point is a Chinese casino that hasn't been played much.  One of my problems is the I haven't played years so I decided to start from scratch - including a lot of open chords that I didn't have much time for back then. I can do intonation, truss rods etc, but I have no idea if my nut is the right height.  Do I even bother to have a plastic nut adjusted, or should I start with just having it changed?

That looks great.  I'm looking at the NUX Amp Academy.

https://www.thomann.de/gb/nux_ngs_6_amp_academy.htm

As a bass player I saw guitarists using this stuff decades ago.  I have an old can but its dried out.  I could get a fresh one and use it but....... Does it actually DO anything?  If its just mineral oil couldn't I just use that?  What about lemon oil that I use on my fret board?

I started playing in the winter of 1978 and joined a band.  I switched to bass early on although I still played 6 string mostly as a writing tool.  However, my last performance on guitar was in 2009, with bass lasting another 5 years.  I have been mostly playing percussion.   A couple of months ago I picked up my old acoustic that I "lent" to my son and found that I had forgotten loads.

So I'm relearning, especially the things I didn't do well the first time, so.. HI

This is either complicated or simple.  I'm not sure which.

I used to frequent Basschat, but then I started playing samba percussion (they don't use 4-string basses) and also Cavaquinho.  The last time I played guitar was 14 years ago!  I've forgotten loads.  A few weeks ago I bought an Epiphone casino.

I want to build a pedal board for running direct to a PA that also doubles as my home setup with a headphone jack.  I would like to be minimalist with perhaps some kind of overdrive/dirt/tube screamer and a reverb. For acoustic I have an optima air ( a great interface but no amp modeling) and a Sansamp Para DI.  Also a great interface but no head phone jack. I can't think of a way to use them.
I could go really old school and just get an XT pod, but was hoping for something lighter and tech has moved on.

Or..... I could just get a small amp with a headphone jack.