Chubbuck Guitars / Kevin Chubbuck, making & repairing guitars in an old building just north of Boston, Massachusetts.
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Failing bridge :: Bedell TB-28-G
Here's a bridge that should be fairly easy to remove. Just need to break the remaining bond, clean, fit and re-glue. I was told that some superglue was used at one point so it should be interesting once the bridge is pulled.
Top cracks :: 2004 Gibson SJ-200
This Gibson jumbo is showing the effects of this cold dry winter with a few top cracks. A portion of the center seam was open and needed to be humidified, glued and cleated. Along both sides of the fingerboard extension are top cracks running clean into the sound hole. These cracks were glued and reinforced with a single large cross-grain patch that follows just inside of the sound hole and butts up against the fingerboard brace.
Broken headstock & upgrades :: 1992 Gibson Les Paul [7.7 lbs]
Another Gibson, another broken headstock. The neck break was repaired along with an odd break in the control cavity. While the guitar was in the shop, the player decided to make a few upgrades, including a Tonepros bridge, amber bell knobs and cream appointments (pickup rings, switch plate, output jack plate - all originally black). The player will be swapping out the Dimarzio "Mega Drive" (DP107) bridge pickup himself for a classic '57. In order to cosmetically match the new pickup, the player had me install a gold cover on the neck pickup.
Below is the headstock repair. We opted for no finish touch ups, so I just wet sanded and buffed the area to improve the feel.
Truss rod tweak :: 2012 Fender Precision Bass Special Deluxe [9.3 lbs]
Joe Cesarz of Boston funk band Big Ol' Dirty Bucket dropped by last week for a quick tweak on his PJ.
Here's a color shot from the last time it was in the shop.
New frets & bone nut :: 1967 Guild Starfire IV [7.6 lbs]
Here's an all-mahogany 335-style Hoboken Guild in for new frets and unbleached bone nut. Photos of the fretwork can be seen here and here. This is also the guitar that I dumped kitty litter into in an attempt to take the curse off of a moldy smell.
The Melita Syncro-Sonic bridge radius needed to be adjusted to match the fingerboard's radius. While working on the bridge I found that the foot was double-stick taped to the top. In order to give more range to the action adjustment (and side-to-side), the tape was removed and the underside of the bridge foot was re-fit to the top in order to lower the overall height.
The exposed patches of mahogany on the body were lightly sealed with shellac and the guitar strung with Thomastik flats. This is a great sounding guitar. She will be missed ...
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