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Guitar Repair and Lutherie services for Santa Cruz county.
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This Gibson L-4, which I dated somewhere between 1916 and 1919, came to me after having sat unplayed since the late 1960s.
"The Gibson" headstock.
The Gibson L-4 had some loose binding in the waists, and the back was separating from the sides at the end block.
More loose binding on the fingerboard, and a great view of the Gibson L-4 label.
Gibson L-4 (1916-1919), cleaned up and strung up. She's got a thick, beefy neck, and a silky low and low-mid range.
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A Fender Telecaster setup.
And another.
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12-string Guild - these guitars have lots of tension on the neck and bridge and often need a bridge reglue, as did this guitar. Heat up the bridge, pry it off...
...and reglue, after resurfacing the bridge bottom and the area on the top where it sits.
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5 string Lakland Jazz bass with Aguilar OPB-3 preamp.
The customer wanted to install an 18volt Aguilar OPB-3 preamp into his Lakland Jazz for more headroom and tonal possibilities. The preamp (a very sweet preamp, by the way) requires power from 1 or 2 9v batteries (2 give more headroom than 1) and features a toggle switch for switching the Mid frequency bands controlled by the Mid knob (visible on the pickguard in the first pic). Additionally, the preamp requires 4 knobs, so the jack had to be moved to the side of the bass in order to allow for 4 knobs on the Jazz-style control plate.
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12 string Takamine acoustic.
This guitar needed a set up due to high action, and the truss rod was already maxed out. No worries--a little trick involving shims, clamping, and some tweaking to the rod breathed some life back into the neck...so much so that the customer initially complained of too low action, which was adjusted, but attests to the effectiveness of the fix.
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A broken nut on a Fender Jazz bass - broke at the G string slot.
I've fit a new bone blank to the length and width of the groove.
All slotted, sanded and finished.
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Installing position markers on a rosewood fingerboard. The board has been slotted, radiused, and the binding has been glued on.
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This Strat had a replacement neck installed years ago, and the fingerboard overhang was so close to (read: touching) the pickguard that it was lifting up off the neck, causing the highest frets to fret out. I removed some of the rosewood from the underside of the fingerboard, glued it back down, and re-levelled the frets. Playing sweet now!
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I will post more repair pics as time permits.
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