Chubbuck Guitars / Kevin Chubbuck, making & repairing guitars in an old building just north of Boston, Massachusetts.
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I'm pretty reserved in my tastes but this absolutely works for me! Well ... maybe not the jewels in the headstock but it's a recreation of a rare 1935 Bacon & Day Senorita S-6 guitar popularized by John Fahey. This had a few high frets over the body transition that were leveled out. This guitar sounds as good as it looks.
Tuner bushing setup :: 2012 Martin OM-42 [4.2 lbs]
An abalone-bordered OM stopped by the shop with a few loose tuner bushings to be refit along with the action lowered.
Loose tuner bushings :: 2012 Martin OM-42
Here's a loose high e tuner bushing on this Martin OM. There's a fine line when fitting bushings between just right and too loose. Too tight and you can risk damaging the headstock. Too loose can mess with tuning stability. The easy fix is to pull the tuner and bushing and apply superglue to the tuner hole. Once cured, you can test the fit and reapply if necessary. (Do NOT glue the bushings in!)
1960's Silvertone 1488 Silhouette [7.4 lbs] :: bum switches & broken truss rod.
A bunch of work went into this guitar. The removable truss rod was broken (and missing the adjustment nut), a small crack near the nut between the neck and the fingerboard, the original rocker switches were shot and the pickguard had shrunk and become distorted.
First the truss rod was repaired and the neck crack glued. The switches were replaced with a Jaguar setup, and the pickguard mounting holes in the body were plugged and the guard re-mounted with new screws (I also added a few screws between the pickups and the neck to hold down the puffed up pickguard). The tuner bushings were replaced as I could not source a replacement for one that was missing. A neck shim along with a new bone nut finished off the setup. These DeArmond Silverfoils sound incredible.
1976 Gibson ES-175D [6.9 lbs] :: new stainless steel frets, bone nut and setup. [photo 1]
The press-in bushing on this 1970’s Gibson have separate washers. Over time these bushings can become loose and pull up out of the peghead. These washers are then free to make God-awful sympathetic buzzes and rattles. I tightened the fit of the bushings by using super glue to stiffen the wood fibers in the tuner holes. Before installing the bushings, I lightly glued the washers to the bushings so if the bushings rise up again in the future the washers will not be free to vibrate.
![High fret dress :: 2015 New Era Senorita Stefan Grossman [4.4 lbs]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53dfcee2e4b0c0da377c65c7/1452578723599-H2048H7H4APUFPGYJL3A/image-asset.jpeg)
![Tuner bushing setup :: 2012 Martin OM-42 [4.2 lbs]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53dfcee2e4b0c0da377c65c7/1435338361898-QRHW3SM6X83B8W3UDGD2/image-asset.jpeg)
![1960's Silvertone 1488 Silhouette [7.4 lbs] :: bum switches & broken truss rod](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53dfcee2e4b0c0da377c65c7/1433206524598-E6VSIW72B1VK0OHKT4ME/image-asset.jpeg)