Wooden cleat, to reinforce underneath a crack repair. Creating the angled/beveled the sides can make the difference between an amateur repair and professional work.
1950 Martin D-18
Brace re-glue, 1970’s Yamaha acoustic
Guitars
1950s Martin acoustics in for restorations: D-18 and 000 models.
Repairing the worn out bridge plate holes, using the wonderful Bridge Saver tool from Stewmac.
Rosewood fretboard before and after. Cleaning, conditioning , and some fret work.
Acoustic brace repairs
Brace re-glue, internal shot.
Loose acoustic bridge removal / re-glue
Hagstrom refret
Acoustic structural repairs
Repairing and plugging the damaged sides of this 1950s Martin 00-18. Someone thought it was a good idea to drive a hole into the side.
Severed Headstock repair on this Epiphone Dot.
Ebony fingerboard crack repairs and fret dress.
Just in for a setup, but I had to photo this beauty.
Larrivée crack and brace repairs.
Making a replacement pickguard.
Repair of a nasty side split on this all Mahogany Martin.
Original vintage Fender 1962 Jazzmaster in for a setup – not a reissue.
Martin loose brace and cracked mahogany back repair.
This acoustic guitar (the maker will not be outed here) left the factory with a mess of epoxy and very poor top to bridge contact. It came in for a typical lifting bridge repair, but we found a mess inside. Ended up removing all the epoxy, clearing and leveling the spruce top for inlay of a new flat matching spruce patch. Then finally reglued the bridge with hide glue. Better than ever now.
Wiring mod, coil tap options added to this Fender Jazzmaster with Humbuckers
Refretting with the Stewmac Jaws Fret Pres
Plugging and touching up a tiny drilled hole on this Mandolin back
Grafting new spruce (and touch up blend) on the sound hole of this old Larrivée acoustic.
New work space, 2016!
Introducing our new CNC router! Very excited.
Original vintage 1963 Fender Strat in for some repair work (!!!)
1963 original vintage Fender Stratocaster and Jaguar necks in for repairs.
Just some cool guitars in for maintenance
Original pre CBS Fender 1962 Stratocaster – the real ’62 Strat
Repair of a badly damaged Gibson acoustic top. The break here was particularly nasty. It was repaired with a new tecnique I’ve been using in my recent work involving CNC technology in addition to more traditional luthier techniques.
Repair of a badly damaged Martin acoustic back. It was repaired with a new tecnique I’ve been using in my recent work involving CNC technology in addition to more traditional luthier techniques.
Probably the only step I actually look forward to in an acoustic guitar neck reset is covering my tracks and hiding the tiny hole I drilled to steam apart the neck for repair. The original bridge was toast so it made perfect donor wood.
Customer wanted a handmade bone copy of his original machined saddle. Mine is the one in front, made to 0.001″ tolerance length and thickness of original, but corrected height for better action and intonation on mine.
Yet another broken Gibson headstock repair
Vintage acoustic guitar restoration. A ton of work goes into the parts no one will ever see
We will restore your new or vintage guitar with extreme care
Filing a new bone string nut
Cracked ebony bridge repair
New bone string nut for a Gibson bass guitar
In house wound FSC vintage spec pickups and wiring harness