Chubbuck Guitars / Kevin Chubbuck, making & repairing guitars in an old building just north of Boston, Massachusetts.
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Shipping Damage & Bridge Re-glue :: 1971 Guild D25 Brown [4.2 lbs]
An all-mahogany Guild dreadnought that came in with significant shipping damage on the bass side. The side cracks were glued and the finish repaired to help hide the damage. We also found that the bridge was lifting and cracked through the pin holes, so it was removed, repaired and re-glued.
Chubbuck Mousa 003 :: Lining the Rim
Installing the linings on a the current hollowbody build. You can follow along with this build at http://www.chubbuckguitars.com/hollowbody/mousa003
Loose Neck Block :: 1960's Aria Barney Kessel
The top is separated from the neck block and not providing much strength for the bolt on neck joint. Here I'm clamping the neck back to realign the top while gluing and clamping the loose area. The neck block had slipped so much that there was a significant stack of shims in the neck pocket to account for the fallen neck angle.
The bridge is also being refit on this hollowbody.
Output Jack & Setup :: 2004 Squire P Bass [8.0 lbs]
This P bass came in with the pickguard not screwed down, the output jack disconnected and missing the control knobs. I installed a new higher-quality-than-stock Switchcraft jack, new pickguard screws and new knobs. I also gave this bass a good cleaning along with adjusting the neck and action.
Fretjob & Bone Nut :: 1994-95 Japanese Fender Tele / Foto Flame [8.3 lbs]
A mid nineties Japanese Tele in for a refret. The fingerboard had a vintage 7.25" fingerboard radius and rise over the body was choking out big bends high up the neck for this player. We decided to flatten the extreme radius down to 10"R and plane down the body hump in the process. The tele cup jack was also swapped out for a more rugged electrosocket jack.
Note that this neck looks like a killer piece of flame maple, but it is some dubious trickery at play. The flame on this neck is actually a piece of film that is wrapped over the neck during the finish process. This technique is branded "Foto Flame" and looks really convincing until you move the guitar in the light. A true flame figure will roll in the light (light areas becomes dark and vice-versa). The dark spots on this stay consistently dark. Check out this link for more info on Fender's fake flame forgery. (There's a conspiracy that a worker placed the Hamburglar's face in the flame!)
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