by Steve | Jun 24, 2010 | Customization, electronics, Repairs, Uncategorized, Vintage Restoration |
After more than 25 years, a favorite old friend comes home with a little help from Facebook! We have a love/hate relationship with Facebook around Chicago Fret Works. But one of the great things about the site is how it helps old friends reconnect. In this case, the...
by Steve | May 18, 2010 | Customization, electronics, Fender, Uncategorized
Well obviously this is a custom refin (not done here) and obviously it looks more like a Tele Custom than a Tele Deluxe, but it’s pretty cool looking either way! Somewhere along the line, this Tele was modded with a Bigsby and a wide-range humbucker. The current...
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 | Jan 17, 2009 | electronics, gibson, vintage |
Rewiring a jack on a vintage Gibson hollow body isn’t always as easy as it sounds. A good customer of ours recently purchased this Gibson ES345, a beautiful and rare guitar, but one that just wasn’t sounding right. When it came to us, there was so much...
by Steve | Jan 7, 2009 | Archtop, Customization, electronics, vintage |
This tale may ruffle the feathers of vintage purists. Would you rout a 50’s Harmony archtop for a pickup? As a rule, we and others in our profession have an unwritten standard that says you don’t do irreversable modifications to vintage guitars unless you...
by Steve | Aug 11, 2008 | Customization, electronics, gibson, Uncategorized |
Okay Blueshawk fans, we know what you’re thinking; there’s no such thing as a Blueshawk bass. Well, thanks to a tag-team effort, there is now. This was truly one of the most challenging electronics customization projects we’ve ever done and it turned...
