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Featured Guitar – Tele “Deluxe” ?

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...

Featured Instruments: A Pair of 1920’s Gibson Banjos

by Steve | May 12, 2010 | banjo | 1 comment

This pair, a four string tenor banjo and an eight string mandolin banjo from the 1920’s, needed new heads and bridges and some TLC. They came to the right place. Here’s a Gibson MB-1 and (maybe an enthusiast will help me out with this) a TB-1 or TB-3. They...

Featured Guitar – 1973 Fender Tele Deluxe

by Steve | Mar 26, 2010 | Fender, Repairs, vintage | 1 comment

Okay Tele Deluxe fans, what looks different on this guitar? And no, we don’t mean the flower tattoo. That’s right! It’s the……Strat style tremolo! Not what we’re used to seeing on these guitars at all. Neither of us had ever seen one...

Featured Guitar – Vintage Regal Tenor Resophonic

by Steve | Feb 12, 2010 | acoustic, resophonic, vintage | 2 comments

Sometimes the guitar itself is more interesting than the repair.  It would be a shame not to share some of those instruments. So with that in mind, presenting our first “Featured Guitar.” The owner of this Regal tenor resophonic guitar is something of a...

Martin Headstock Repair

by Steve | Jan 18, 2010 | acoustic, headstock, Martin, Repairs, touch up, Uncategorized | 5 comments

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,...
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