Clients often comment that I must be an exceptional guitarist since I'm constantly surrounded by guitars ...
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Yes, I screwed up (ie. fucked up). I was changing out pickup rings on a customer's guitar and ended up putting a HUGE scratch in the cover ...
The guitar is a quilted maple 1987 Carvin DC-150 that the customer wanted to give the guitar a little more character with a new transparent sunburst and covert the guitar's electronics to passive. During the process we decided to add a belly carve ...
Here by far is the nastiest neck break to come across my bench to date. It is a 1965 Epiphone Olympic. The neck is cleanly broken free of the body and then some. This came into the shop in three pieces (body, neck, headstock) with a few loose / missing pieces to boot. The back story is that this player was at a rehearsal where he backed up and tripped over some gear. On the way down he caught his head on a counter top and was knocked out cold just before he and the guitar hit the ground. Ouch! ...
Ok, here is an output jack crack repair on an 80’s Yamaha 335-style guitar. And yes, I said “output” jack – not the common “input” jack misnomer. For me, input jacks are for amps, output jacks are for guitars. The signal leaves the guitar and enters the amp, right? ...