Repair - Fender DG-8 acoustic guitar - Back damage fix

 Some impact damaged had occurred to back of the guitar and it had about a 2 x 3 inch puncture. I re-enforced the area with a patch on the inside and then filled the area and stained to match

• patch inside for structural integrity
• re-glue broken bracing
• fill patch with sawdust
• stain to match
• restring with D'Addario 11 gauge custom lights

Repair - Univox U-45B Vintage Guitar Tube Amplifier - Re-Cap Part 2

 

Repair - Taylor 214 acoustic electric - Fix hole in top

New Guitar Workshop Space & Strings!

 New Year new space and tools!

Current String Selection:

Electric Strings

• 9,10,11, & 12 gauge Slinky Ernie Ball 
• 11 gauge Slash Custom Ernie Ball
• 11 gauge Cobalt Ernie Ball
• 11 gauge Dean Markley Blue Steel
• 10 gauge D'Addario XL
• 10 gauge D'Angelico Electrozinc

Acoustic Strings

• 10 & 11 gauge Martin 80/20 bronze
• 12 gauge Ernie Ball Earthwoods
• 13 gauge GHS vintage bronze

Setup - Squier '51 electric guitar

• lighlty sand neck to improve feeling
• Clean & polish frets
• adjust truss rod for better relief
• file saddles to avoid string breakage
• Restring with Ernie Ball 9 gauge

Repair - Kent KF-720 dreadnought acoustic guitar made in Korea 1970s Part 2

 

Customized nut string guide to match original zero fret string spacing

Repair - Kent KF-720 dreadnought acoustic guitar made in Korea 1970s Part 1

This job was a repair for someone who had tried to repair it themselves and had a lot of issues. So I was tasked to undo what had already been done and start over:

• Tap truss rod back into proper position
• Create custom string guide for zero fret
• Removed bridge, cleaned off super glue, filed lower to improve action and screw holes filled with its own matching sawdust
• Scraped and sanded bridge pad, filled and re-drilled 6 string holes for bridge
• Re-glued bridge, correcting string spacing and alignment
• Polished frets, rounded fretboard edges, cleaned & oiled rosewood
• De-glossed back of neck with Scotch Brite pad
• Minor cosmetic touch-ups with wood stain match pen
• New Elixir strings 13 gauge with setup

Repair - Ibanez acoustic electric - Bridge reset

  

Repair - Marlboro Miles Acoustic Guitar 1990s Part 2

 

Repair - Marlboro Miles Acoustic Guitar 1990s Part 1

This was a challenging repair. This was a guitar that was purchased using Marlboro cigarette rewards points known as Marlboro Miles. It's a Chinese Martin copy and has some nice materials. However eventually though the owner smashed the guitar in a fit of rage (nicotine fit?) and kept the pieces for decades, until I came along and naively agreed to fix it.