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…
Here’s an electric mandolin that came in with noisy pots. Quiet as a mouse now after pots were cleaned and an additional earth wire connected to the bridge.
Despite the name of the business, I don’t just work on guitars. Over the years I’ve repaired, set up or fitted pickups to ukeleles, mandolins, banjos etc. Today I have an Irish Bouzouki that the owner wants a pickup fitted into. So, I’m fitting a K&K mini. The difficulty with this instrument is that it…
When 12 string guitars are left tuned up to standard tuning the neck starts to dry out and increases tension on the bridge, pulling the top face of the guitar up. This one had the face pulled and the bridge was starting to come away. Using high tech kit – an old iron, a wet…