Easy Mods and Upgrades to A Brand New GTL Semi-hollow!

You can change the feel of the guitar playing by sanding the neck and fingerboard to significantly increase the playability of the guitar. This is a smoothing process that brings back the high grain of the thin finish and tries to repair the worst of the tool marks left from manufacture.

Make sure you run your sandpaper over the entire length of the neck. You don't want to wear any uneven places anywhere on the neck. Start with the lower grit number and repeat with higher grade.

Finally, oil the freshly sanded fingerboard. A little crimson fretboard restorer brings back the dark color so smoothly and beautifully. A few coats of fast-drying crimson melamine finish adds the protection to the neck and feels fantastic.

Cleaning your fret is one of the most basic but most important modifications you can make. Not only can it help to keep the aesthetic of your guitar looking beautiful, but it can also help you produce the best sound and reduce the risk of problems like fret buzzing.

There are many approaches when it comes to cleaning and polishing your guitar frets. You can learn the method in the video above by simply gently rounding the ends of the fret with a fret end dressing file and then polishing the ends of each fretboard with a micromesh pad.

Getting a new pickguard for your guitar is a simple upgrade that will make it stand out from the pack of other factory stock instruments that we have all seen time and time again. Being able to personalize a guitar, making it your own, and making it inspire you to play every time you look at it is a big deal. Fortunately, it’s an easy and cheap modification!

Upgrading or modifying your pickups is one of the most popular upgrades for electric guitars. In most cases, upgrading to a more expensive pickup is the most effective way to improve your overall tone and sound quality. A new pickup can give you a real insight into the tone of your guitar and how it responds to your playing.

But keep in mind, you can also achieve another upgrade by simply changing your guitar pickups to suit your playing style, your musical genre and typical tones you want. There's no need to break the bank here with a fancy or expensive set of pickups. A quality pickup that suits your tastes will definitely take your tone to the next level.

If you're not going to modify your pickups, then you can get the tone you like by setting them to the correct height.

Don't ever underestimate the importance of your guitar‘s bridge saddle! It helps determine the action (string height) and affects the tone and intonation. If the strings are too high or too low, you can raise or lower the saddle to adjust the action.

Our Glarry GTL semi-hollow guitar originals come with a 6-saddle bridge, and its main advantage is that it makes it easier to intonate the guitar because each saddle is associated with a single string. However, if you are a Tele purist, you can also mod to a more representative 3-saddle bridge. A more modern bridge with three compensated brass saddle like the one mentioned in the video above is a great option that provides near-perfect intonation while maintaining more of the original Tele's look and making it easier to tweak the intonation.