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My backup set on my Mikro are too short I’ll have to wait for new ones to change. I do notice more fret buzz than the Mikro so I’ll need to work on that…

I just bought the Gretsch Junior Jet, the only short scale I could find in Panama. I’ve been playing an Ibanez Mikro for a little over a year with upgraded pickups but this Gretsch feels like it’s well constructed. I haven’t even gotten it home yet but what are the stock strings? It says 40-95...

Sorry I was referring to the comment about removing the neck not the bridge. Well I haven’t don’t either. I don’t see any issues with the bridge, seems to function as it’s supposed to. I find the big difference with the new pickups is being able to try different levels and finding some different...

I was able to raise the screws the J is 1/8 inch or so the ps are a little more but one screw is a little stripped so it needs some work to get it moved. So far so good Interesting about the bridge. I’ve never removed mine. Bought it last April

Update. So I finally put in the Seymour Duncan pickups. I put in new pots as well. Fortunately a friend of mine had done this stuff before and is good with solder. Here’s my issue, the strings are now too far from the pickups. I can’t loosen them enough without taking the screws out. Perhaps I...

a friend of mine in another band was recommended to help me out . He has done a lot of stuff like this on guitars so I’m going to bring it over to him. If I had understood the difference I would have looked at different pickups . I almost exchanged them but I’m out of the country so it was too...

I purchased the Seymour Duncan 1/4 pound pick ups. A little nervous about doing the soldering. I don’t have close access to guitar tech/luthier so we’ll see what happens.

I recently put the Dunlap regular short scales in my Mikro and really like them.

Now I regret my color choice after seeing the black. I have root beer.

Thanks for the info I've had mine 6 months almost and haven't changed anything yet. Now that I can play a little I'm interested in some changes. We had our first gig Thursday and it as fun. Just put on Ernie Ball Slinkys, a big improvement from the originals that came with it.

awesome thanks for the feedback. I liked practicing with slightly raised so it’s a start. I need to look at string height above pickups as well .

ah ok! That sounds familiar. I wouldn’t have thrown it out. I’ll have a look. Thanks update - my computer screwdriver kit had the exact thing I needed raised it slightly and I like the sound and feel. One video I watched said to have them 4/32 to 3/32 high so I used that as a guide.

will do. At the moment I don’t have the right tool (looks like a tiny Allen key) to adjust it. I’ll ask my guitar friends tonight as I know they talked about this type of stuff.

Thank you.

So after almost 2 weeks with the Epiphone SG rental I find a huge difference coming back to the Mikro. My teacher says the action on the SG must have been much higher based on my description of playing. However I think raising the action slightly on the Mikro might be warranted. Is it...