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I offer full repair and customization services on acoustic and electric instruments.

Services:  Instruments:
   
Setups and Playability Issues
Guitars
Refrets and Fret Work
Bass
Structural Repairs
Banjo
Bridge Replacement
Mandolin
Hardware Replacement and Upgrades
Violin family
Electronics Repair and Upgrades
Ukulele
Finish Repair and Refinishing
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I am pleased to offer the following products:
 (Contact me for pricing and availability)

 
Nordstrand Pickups  Custom handwound pickups for Guitar and Bass
Moses Graphite Necks
Quality Graphite replacement necks
Allparts replacement parts and accessories
Everything else you could need for your instrument



Aguilar OPB-3 Installation Lakland 5 String Bass  5 string Lakland Jazz bass with Aguilar OPB-3 preamp.

The customer wanted to install an 18volt Aguilar OPB-3 preamp into his Lakland Jazz for more headroom and tonal possibilities.  The preamp (a very sweet preamp, by the way) requires power from 1 or 2 9v batteries (2 give more headroom than 1) and features a toggle switch for switching the Mid frequency bands controlled by the Mid knob (visible on the pickguard in the first pic).  Additionally, the preamp requires 4 knobs, so the jack had to be moved to the side of the bass in order to allow for 4 knobs on the Jazz-style control plate.
18 volt active OBP-3 preamp battery route Lakland bass
   
12 string acoustic guitar truss rod fix
 12 string Takamine acoustic.

This guitar needed a set up due to high action, and the truss rod was already maxed out.  No worries--a little trick involving shims, clamping, and some tweaking to the rod breathed some life back into the neck...so much so that the customer initially complained of too low action, which was adjusted but attests to the effectiveness of the fix.
   
binding and installing position markers in fingerboard
Installing position markers on a rosewood fingerboard.  The board has been slotted, radiused, and the binding has been glued on.
   
Fender Strat replacement neck with high frets
This Strat had a replacement neck installed years ago, and the fingerboard overhang was so close to (read: touching) the pickguard that it was lifting up off the neck, causing the highest frets to fret out.  I removed some of the rosewood from the underside of the fingerboard, glued it back down, and re-levelled the frets.  Playing sweet-as now!
Fender custom strat replacement neck setup
I will post more repair pics as time permits.