1965 Fender Jazz Bass in for some corrective electronics work. Click for more!
Fender Jeff Beck Strat that suffered a terrible roller nut removal, That we’ve now corrected! Click for more photos
Don’t see many 1953 Gibson super 400’s these days! What a wonderful guitar and truly a pleasure to work on. More Photos
Gretsch Eddie Cochran special 6120EC
Early 50’s Oahu Lap Steel in astounding condition but suffered from seized pots and a dead pickup. Up and running now and sounds huge!
Squier Mustang that’s had some major customisation already comes in to have 2 Seymour Duncan P-90’s routed and fit. Click for more!
Beautiful Kiesel HH-2
This had to be one of the cleanest 1971 Fender Telecasters I’d seen in a while, but boy did it need some new frets! Sorry no before pictures on this one but click the picture for a few after the job was done
A National NRP Steel 12-fret model with an unusual repair that required moving the position of the saddle slightly as well as fitting a Replogle saddle! Click for step by step
This 1974 Gibson Les Paul Signature had all of its original wiring removed in the late 1980’s and hasn’t worked since :( After much research and very luckily locating an appropriate transformer it’s original low impedance pickups and circuitry once again function as they should :) Click for more pictures!
This 1947 Martin 00-17 Had some old Replacement Grovers on it and they just weren’t keeping up! Rather than go for some equally dire original tuning machines the decision was made to get some fine Waverly Tuners on there. Click to see more…
Paul Reed Smith Custom 24 in a beautiful Magenta - Just came by for a setup!
Electric basses don’t get much more classic than this 1956 Fender Precision Bass! This thunderous beast only needed some minor adjustments before gigging and a very thorough yet careful cleaning. Gotta be super careful when dealing with any vintage guitar, your average approach and modern products may not be a good idea. Click for some more shots :)
This Gibson ES-165 ‘Herb Ellis’ is from 1992, been played extensively for much of it’s life and it was definitely time for a re-fresh! Fretboard was carefully levelled and re-fretted with correct sized Gibson frets, new Kluson brass ABR-1 Saddles were popped in the bridge and it was topped off with a fresh bone nut! Click for more…
This Godin LGX-3 XT Is a bit of a rare one and had a plethora of issues. Apart from being in dire need of a setup to get it playing properly again, it had developed issues with the electronics that had been made much worse in the hands of some less experienced techs. When it came to me, it made absolutely no sound at all! In the end, both jacks had been broken, one transistor had been fried, The IC chip on the board had been torn out and the tracks useless and 5 of the 6 bridge piezos had their wires torn out! Please make sure that whomever you bring your prized instrument actually knows what they’re doing, or at least is honest enough to tell you when it not something they can handle. This clients invoice could have been a lot smaller if I didn’t have to repair lots of other bad attempts! Click to see some of the damage…