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…
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…
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…
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.…