Taylor 214 Guitar Repair

                  This 2004 Taylor 214 guitar repair came about because the guitar was brought in about 10 years ago for a pickup installation. The 2004 guitars were made with solid Sapele mahogany back and sides and a solid spruce top whereas later models were made from laminates.…

Johnston Acoustic Guitar Build

Recently a customer asked me to build him a 1-off Johnston acoustic guitar. And so the Johnston acoustic guitar build began. Although I have a guitar repair workshop well stocked with tools for such jobs, I don’t have specific jigs nor go-bar decks etc that might be used by someone who regularly makes acoustics. I…

Road Worn Epiphone Les Paul

So, you may have seen my recent post on preparing the road worn Epiphone Les Paul. This is the update now just to complete that project. The customer wanted a set of Johnston hand-wound pickups fitted to the guitar. He asked for a bespoke specification which was a neck pickup wound to 8k ohms with…

Road Worn Epiphone Les Paul

This job came in from a regular customer who got this Epiphone Les Paul as a Christmas present. Although he loves the guitar, he decided he wanted it to have a road worn look and also have a new set of pickups made for it.   It always makes me a bit nervous when I’m…

12 String Bridge Repair

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…

Belated New Year Greetings

I’m a bit late in sending greetings this year because I had a login problem with my website platform. So, hopefully many of you who are reading this will have got a shiny new guitar for Christmas and are looking forward to years of enjoyment from it. As with anything, the better you look after…