Repair - Taylor 214CE acoustic electric guitar Part 2

Finishing up just checking to make sure all the glue up and cleats are seated properly and placed properly

 

Now time to restring with Ernie Ball Earthwood and let it sit at tension for a few days before doing the final minor setup work

Repair - Taylor 214CE acoustic electric guitar Part 1

This guitar was brought to me crushed, the top completely pushed into the box. The damage was total and the only fortunate thing was that the neck avoided stress. I popped out the top some before I took photos, but there are 4 prominent cracks running the entire length of the top and the bracing had of course come loose. The finished photos are in part 2...

Replacing dislodged bracing

                                                                Inside view of biggest crack

Laying out old braces and new cleats to repair cracks

Gluing and magnet fun

Lots of clamping once its all in place

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