by Steve | Oct 22, 2009 | Uncategorized |
“An ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure.” In this post, we’ll break down the best way to protect your guitar in the cool months ahead. Chicago winters kill guitars. The weather gets dry and cold, so we turn on our furnaces – drying out...
by Steve | Aug 19, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Lenny Davidson of the Dave Clark Five pays us a visit. A favorite customer and friend of ours came in with his father to get a little work done on dad’s travel guitar. Some of the tuning gears had been stripped to Bits and Pieces so we installed a new set and...
by Steve | Aug 3, 2009 | Archtop, binding, finish, Gretsch, Repairs, vintage |
When it rains it pours, and my partner Dan has been up to his elbows in binding repairs this year. Here, he replaces the dried and crumbling binding from a vintage Gretsch Country Gentleman. A common problem on vintage Gretsch guitars is the decay and crumbling of...
by Steve | Jul 28, 2009 | Complete refinish, Customization, electronics, finish, gibson, touch up, vintage |
Hold on there! Refinish a vintage Gibson? In candy apple red?? There better be a darn good reason to do something like that… and there was. As mentioned in previous posts, the guitar repairman’s rule of thumb with vintage instruments is to leave it in as...
by Steve | Jul 27, 2009 | headstock, Mandolin, Repairs, Uncategorized, Vintage Restoration |
In this post, you’ll see how we tackle a very difficult neck re-repair on a Chicago-made Lyon and Healy Style-A Mandolin. A new customer brought us a remarkable and beautiful Lyon & Healy mandolin that was made here in Chicago nearly a century ago. This is a...
