under construction 10-6-09

Repairs

Clamping arrangement for Gibson bridge.

Clamping another Gibson bridge.

Classical bridge being glued on.

Gluing down a loose Gibson pick guard.

Heating up the fingerboard end with heat lamp

for removal during neck reset .

Loosening the fingerboard after heating.

In this case the fingerboard is being replaced

along with a neck reset too.

Shims glued to dovetail `ready to be trimmed and then

refit using colored chalk for neck reset.

 

Special clamping setup that allows the guitar

to be strung up and brought to full tension

to check exact neck angle during reset.

Custom pyramid bridge underway.

 

Old glue and finish carefully removed from bridge footprint.

Custom "cauls" and things for clamping 

the above bridge.

Setup for cutting or recutting saddle slot on bridge.

Close up of saddle cutting rig.

A great new tool from StewMac  for determining the

exact saddle position.

A new method for repairing bridge plates

...much better than removing and replacing them.

Determining the exact footprint of the old pickguard

on an old Martin by rubbing graphite on tracing paper...

...which is then temporarily attached to the new

pickguard material to be carefully trimmed to

fit the old footprint.

Different amounts of fret filings show

uneven frets heights.

Fretless bass conversion.

busy day