Chubbuck Guitars / Kevin Chubbuck, making & repairing guitars in an old building just north of Boston, Massachusetts.
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An interesting dreadnought cutaway in for a new bone nut and saddle. All of the braces are made of carbon fiber. Even the neck block is carbon fiber! The neck is a bolt-on and one of the inserts split the stacked heel and needed to be repaired. This guitar got two spots on the vlog - one video on the saddle and another on the nut.
An older neck-through Yamaha bass in for a setup. Along with the setup we stripped and oiled the neck and here I am leveling the frets. This bass player uses the lowest action of any other basses that I work on so it is absolutely critical that there are no high frets. The fret level video will be posted on the vlog later today.
A Garrison dreadnought cutwaway with a split heel. The neck construction is a 5 piece stacked heel and the heel cap laminate is split through the glue joint. This is a bolt-on where the lower threaded insert in the heel lands dead-center of this glue joint and has separated the two. I worked in some glue and closed the joint with a clamp.
This Warmoth Strat is approximately 30 years old and was tough to play. The player and I found out that the bridge was vintage spaced and pushed the strings far too close to the edge of the fingerboard. The solution was to swap it out for a new Callaham V/N bridge. The "V" stands for vintage mount (6 screws) and the "N" is for narrow spacing. Wow, what a difference in both playability and sustain. (note the outer 2 bridge mounting screws were omitted as there must have been a 2 point bridge at some time with two large post holes in the body - we may opt to plug thesein the future). We also replaced the pots as the old ones were pretty rough. I used an Emerson Custom 500KA pot for the volume and went with Bourns pots for the tones. I initially had Emersons in for the tones too but found the sweep far too subtle for most of the pot's travel for this guitar (around 2-3 they began to roll off rather quickly). The Bill Lawrence bridge pickup's plastic mounting tabs were stripped out so they were plugged and re-tapped.
The pot swap was featured over on the vlog (video below).
This 1960's Aria Barney Kessel is back in for another neck set issue. I re-glued the top to the block a few weeks ago but the plywood neck block decided delaminate through one of the plies. I ended up filling the gap with epoxy in an attempt to stabilize the neck joint (video below). Fingers crossed!
![New bone nut & saddle :: 2003 Garrison G40-CE [5.5 lbs]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53dfcee2e4b0c0da377c65c7/1446562365470-86MF8M2X64EKX0HATBCU/image-asset.jpeg)
![New bridge & pots :: Warmoth Strat [8.0 lbs]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53dfcee2e4b0c0da377c65c7/1445978085552-XHOKQHM8XVI4F8Q9QJAR/image-asset.jpeg)
