This Ibanez Jem came in for a custom paint job to make it look like a Steve Vai signature guitar. The job amounted to painting the lion’s claw at the Floyd Rose Tremolo cavity bright pink. Doesn’t look like much of a job but it’s tricky enough to get a clean line around the edges…
This Telecaster neck refret job came in as a straight forward neck refret plus supplying and fitting a new hand-cut bone nut. The customer wanted jumbo stainless steel frets fitted. However, when the guitar arrived it soon became clear that there was more than just the frets that needed fixing. The neck appeared to be…
This Johnston LP Style Guitar started life off as a Westfield Les Paul that came “free” with an amp I bought on a local selling website. When a guitar has a good neck and body you can work wonders with it. This one has a good mahogany neck and body and the tuners and bridge…
This customer wanted his Epiphone Les Paul Headstock customised to a Norlin era style Gibson Les Paul headstock. The 1st thing to do was remove the existing Epiphone headstock veneer. This was done using a steam iron to soften the glue and then gently levering it off with a scraper. Then the tuner holes…
These 2 Epiphone guitars came in for set-ups from a customer who has been playing for a little over a year now. He has been struggling to play bar chords on the Epi Hummingbird acoustic guitar and with the general playability of the Epi Les Paul. I checked over the Hummingbird and it was set…
A Squier Acoustic Guitar Set-up – a straight forward job on the bench today . Although the guitar was set ok and within the normal settings for an acoustic guitar, the customer wanted the action lowered. The nut checked out ok – plastic but I don’t get hung up on what a nut is made…
About 40 years ago I sold my prized Hofner President guitar and have regretted it ever since. I have a 335 semi hollow-body but wanted a full hollow-body guitar again but i was reluctant to invest the cost of a Gretsch. So I decided to make my own guitar. Hence my Gr style hollow-body guitar.…
This Avalon guitar repair job resulted from a couple of circumstances that combined to leave the customer with this badly scarred guitar top. What happened was that the owner’s son put a slight score on the face above and to the bridge end of the soundhole.…
During the recent lockdown, we stopped working for a few weeks but have now re-commenced operating, but not quite as before. Unfortunately, we’ve lost some of the personal touch where we can try out your guitar before and after repair/upgrade/set-up etc and discuss any works required before your guitar goes into the workshop. However, you…