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Westone Thunder 2A refurb and set up

Martin brought this left-handed Westone Thunder II A over - a classic eBay find. It came in a right-handed strat case with a chunk cut out of the case to make it fit (!). And the guitar was FILTHY. I mean, decades of nicotine-covered history followed by more decades stored in an attic somewhere. At last it's getting to see the light of day again - plus a solid clean up, fix and set up. I love these MIJ Westones; I think they're great quality guitars even though they can be had pretty cheaply. On this one, the 'A' stands for 'Active' - not pickups but an 'active EQ' circuit that's like a pre-amp and EQ together. The 3rd knob controls the amount of this EQ'd signal coming out of the guitar. My first impressions were that the guitar was dirty; the frets pitted and discoloured and the neck pickup didn't seem to be working properly. When I checked the battery compartment I found the batteries leaking and corrosion all around the battery clips - which I cut off and grafted new ones on in their place. Once I'd done this and installed new batteries I was able to determine that it was the switch that was faulty; so that came out and a new one ordered. If this had been my guitar I would undoubtedly have re-fretted it as the frets were 2/3rds worn (not bad for such a vintage guitar) but that wasn't on the table at this point, so I went ahead with a very careful precision fret levelling and set up once the new switch was installed. The levelling, crowning and polishing process left the frets looking very clean and smooth. Along with a freshly-scraped (ewwwww) and naptha'd fingerboard and an all-over polish to remove the grime and nicotine the guitar was looking great. It's a long-ish video and towards the end I go off on one about bad communication (prompted by some dopey comments on YouTube) and share my experience of using something called 'clean language' to break out of patterns of poor communication.