by Steve | May 27, 2010 | Archtop, finish, gibson, touch up, Uncategorized, vintage |
A great reason to check out estate and garage sales. You never know when you’ll find a 1950’s Epiphone Devon archtop for a song! Here’s a project with humble beginnings that grew into a full vintage restoration. The owner picked up this very old...
by Steve | Apr 13, 2010 | finish, gibson, headstock, neck reset, refret, Relic Service, Repairs, touch up, vintage |
In this post, see how we made some ugly previous “repairs” look right and brought a great vintage Gibson back to life. This 1960 Gibson Les Paul Jr. is a terrific playing and sounding specimen. But it sure didn’t come in looking this great. After the...
by Steve | Jan 18, 2010 | acoustic, headstock, Martin, Repairs, touch up, Uncategorized |
This Martin guitar took a serious fall, snapping the headstock off completely. See how we made it look like it never happened while keeping every bit of strength it had before. This is never how you want your Martin to look. But if your headstock does break off,...
by Steve | Nov 12, 2009 | acoustic, gibson, Repairs, top crack, touch up, vintage |
A family heirloom gets a new life for the next generation of strummers. We weren’t sure we believed a phone caller who said his vintage Gibson acoustic guitar had a crack in the top that was open more than a quarter inch. But when he brought it in, sure enough...
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 | Oct 30, 2008 | finish, gibson, headstock, Relic Service, Repairs, touch up, Uncategorized, vintage |
*Beware: another one of those ‘I found this vintage Les Paul in my dad’s closet’ stories follows. I like to think that if my dad had one of these in his closet I’d have found it by now. This 1956 Les Paul Junior belongs to a friend who, yes,...
