Greetings one and all, it’s your friendly neighborhood guitar fixer guy back with another tale from the depths of the Bridge City Guitar tone mines. Today I want to share a project guitar I recently completed for my good friend Sam Weber. In addition to being a masterful songcrafter, singer, guitar player, piano player, […]
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This is a quick post detailing a process for making a diy screw extractor. This works best for extracting broken screws that have broken off too deep in the wood to use a traditional screw extractor. I picked up this technique from a post by Doug and Sharon Proper aka The Guitar Specialist Inc. You
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This Ibanez Blazer came in for a bunch of things. A refret, a new wiring harness, new tuners, a new nut, setup, all pretty straightforward stuff. Where things got zesty was the request to perform a 20 fret conversion *cue gasps*. This might sound intense, but it went pretty smoothly, really. If you’ve ever
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This Mustang bass initially came in as a fretless conversion, which came out great. Pretty routine: pull the frets, clean the slots, fill with maple veneer, glue, plane the board, sand it out to about 1500, then set it up and you’re off to the races. However, the customer wanted tapewound strings, and that proved
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