This neck repair on a Martin acoustic guitar was necessary because the owner had stored the guitar in his garage, in its case with strings on for a couple of years. When he got it out to use it, the action was sitting at around 5mm at the 12th fret. He knew the neck had…
Winding a set of Johnston hand-wound humbucker pickups for a customer. This set are the Riveter type with zebra bobbins. You’ll see from the photo that I like to keep the tension on the coil wire using my hand. This gives me a better feel for the tension and I can make minor changes to…
I’m afraid I’ve neglected the website for a while now so, just to get started again, here are some recent guitar repair jobs that have been completed over the past couple of weeks (in addition to the normal routine setups on Strat, Les Pauls etc) This is a Blueridge acoustic/electric that came in with the…