Xaviere LP Style Blueburst Demo (Before Modifications)
Zach from Miners Harmony Music in Nevada City, California, demos this Xaviere LP-style blueburst guitar straight out of the box (0:24), before any fine-tuning, setups, or modifications are made. It actually plays surprisingly well for a $250 guitar (3:19). It features a maple top on a mahogany body, mahogany neck, a walnut fretboard, and quiet, clean factory wiring (5:56).
However, the factory action is a little high, the fretboard is dry, and it comes equipped with cheap 14:1 ratio tuners and a short plastic nut (0:38). This is the first video in a series documenting the complete transformation of this instrument, where we will soon be upgrading this guitar with quality parts and wiring.
Blueburst Teardown
In this second video of the series, we begin the teardown of the Xaviere LP-style blueburst guitar to inspect and remove the factory components. After getting the strings off, we take a look at the bone-dry walnut fretboard in desperate need of oiling (1:38) and proceed to carefully remove the stock hardware. The disassembly reveals cheap, chrome-plated plastic tuner buttons fused to low-grade metal shafts with a standard 14:1 gear ratio (4:39). To fix this, we preview the ultimate upgrade: a set of premium Kluson Revolution 19:1 diecast tuning machines featuring removable buttons for fine-tuning precision (5:44). We also pull the factory strap buttons out of the mahogany body (8:49) to replace them with heavy-duty locking safety holders to prevent drop damage (8:03).
Next, we carefully pop off the stock plastic nut (12:06), revealing how it was stuck to the finish, and contrast it against the dense, solid bone nut upgrade that will take its place (12:50). Removing the stock humbuckers reveals quick-connect GFS plug-in wiring (14:20), featuring a 10K pickup in the neck and a hotter 14K pickup in the bridge (16:47). Moving to the back cavities, we inspect the factory selector switch (18:52) and dive into the main electronics pool (21:18).
We explain the difference between noisy single-coils and hum-canceling double-coils (19:49), before revealing the plan to strip out the tiny stock potentiometers (25:21) and wire up full-size push-pull pots (25:39). This sets the stage for a custom 4-pot Jimmy Page wiring harness capable of pulling 21 unique tones out of the guitar. With the instrument completely stripped down to bare bones, we look at the truss rod adjustment system (29:13) and share a quick story about saving a “warped” $50 eBay bass neck with a simple truss rod adjustment (29:27) before wrapping up the teardown.