Chubbuck Guitars / Kevin Chubbuck, making & repairing guitars in an old building just north of Boston, Massachusetts.
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A really odd crack for a laminate top. This top's outer maple veneer has split and lifted around the bridge pickup rout. I cleaned out the dirt and fit a splint into the crack along with re-gluing the separated veneer. It won't be a pretty repair, but it should keep the crack from spreading.
This is a severely modded 1970's Gibson EB-3. Someone moved the rotary switch and plugged a couple controls, not to mention adding a middle P pickup. This freak show has random cavities routed/filled, an active preamp installed, stock controls either plugged/rerouted/removed and a 3rd P pickup installed. The customer and I decided to remove the preamp and try to make sense of what's left.
I try to keep an open mind with these older modifications as there was not the plethora of information floating around like nowadays. But what the fuck is going on here? Maybe it was used in some historic recording session? Or maybe someone just had a bunch of ideas they wanted to try out. I need to know why! #eb3mystery
Check out the video below to find out what's under the mysterious gold foil!
A 2012 Gibson Custom Shop ES-359 in for a fret level before it heads back out on the road with Caton of The Jauntee.
Video of the fret level from the daily vlog:
A customer supplied these "Power Pins" to install in his Epiphone dreadnought. They are an interesting design as they bolt into each bridge pin hole and convert it to a top-loading pinless bridge.
A neck-through early 80's Japanese Yamaha PJ (note the reverse P pickup) in for a neck strip and refinished with Tung oil. There is some nice birdseye figure in this neck that didn't really show until I stripped the thick poly and started to apply the oil. During the setup I found many uneven frets so a level, crown and polish was required to get the action super low for this player. With older guitars, often the screws are an odd assortment of non-originals. This was missing a few pickup screws that needed to be replaced with the proper metric ones. The bridge pickup even had a coarse wood screw holding it in place. Thankfully the pickup threads were not damaged (somehow) and cleanly accepted a new screw. The side-mounted output jack plate also fell victim to the random screw swapping so I replaced them all with a matching quartet.
![Power Pins :: Epiphone Masterbuilt 500MCE/NA [5.3 lbs]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53dfcee2e4b0c0da377c65c7/1446674188054-AZSYWLAA8NYP9LD2YX94/image-asset.jpeg)
![Neck strip, oil & fret level :: 1982 Yamaha BB2000 [9.9 lbs]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53dfcee2e4b0c0da377c65c7/1446589434191-LODMYNWVDUWV4GV52OXB/image-asset.jpeg)
