Old Gibson acoustic with badly damaged soundboard
Underside of soundboard once removed
New soundboard constructed
Job completed using the original bridge
Turkish ‘oud’ bought in a charity shop
for £4.00 with broken pegbox
New pegbox made and fitted
Fingerboard with badly worn frets
After ’flatting’ frets re-crowned
Fingerboard masked off before re-polish
Job complete, ready for stringing
Planing down over high bridge on an acoustic guitar
Bridge re-polished and a lot easier to play
Soundboard parting company
with the sides on an Ovation copy
Clamped up, glued up, ready for clean up
Re- glueing top block on an old Fender Malibu
‘Eko’ 12 string undergoing a conversion ‘Dilruba’ style
Crafter acoustic converted to mandola, with eight strings
Crafter conversion, bridge
Crafter conversion, headstock
‘Scalloped’ bone nut made and fitted to a Yamaha APX
Epiphone ‘Les Paul’ with head separated from neck
All back together again
Re-designing and making a new scratchplate
for damaged 70’s copy
Crafter acoustic with broken slotted head
Fully repaired and re-strung
Original Rickenbacker headstock on the right
(neck non-existent)
new head and neck made and grafted onto body