Examples of Our Work

…waiting for aging and assembly.

This finish example features a faded ice tea/greenburst with a faded red back. With the exception of the M69 rings, every part on the guitar is original from the 50s, including the PAF pickups. Currently my main squeeze!

Here is a 59 Les Paul conversion I did in a faded cherry sunburst for Brian Virts. Brian sent me his favourite picture from the Toneman book and this is what I duplicated. It turned out quite nicely…

Here’s an example of a very thin nitro faded cherryburst/ teaburst finish with realistic lacquer checking. The back and neck are done in a faded cherry finish utilizing the correct pore filler to capture the proper look.

This is a LP conversion that I just finished for John Heuring of New York state. John is a great guy who specified a finish close to the “Thelma burst” …a 59 owned by Tom Keifer of Cinderella. It’s a cool look… a faded Ice tea burst with a fair bit of green in the upper […]

Here is a 52-59 conversion we did for my friend Bill Pandolfi of Florida. Bill wanted a very faded teaburst similar to the Peter Green burst. What looks to be a once piece top is actually a very well matched off centre seam. This one was a lot of fun to do and the finished […]

Here’s a surf green J bass body that we did for John Bergen. John had all the parts for a 1961 bass except for the body. He got a great repro body done up and we aged the body to match his original finish neck. Looking good John!

Here is a cool tele we restored for all around good egg Steve Spaulding. This guitar had some serious issues, someone one had turned it into a double cutaway and the headstock finish was gone.After the body was restored with aged ash, Steve decided to have some fun and picked Sherwood green over desert sand […]

This is one of the more unusual challenging jobs I have tackled lately. This heavily worn 66 strat had the original dark amber finish on the back but the top and sides were poorly refinished. This was actually like 3 or 4 mini airbrush paintjobs to get this effect but I am quite happy with […]

Here is a brand new Gretsch White Falcon we just redid for a customer. We stripped off all the poly finish and applied an ambered white nitro finish with authentic looking neck wear and lacquer checking. We also helped him locate all the period correct parts for it and aged the plastic and gold hardware. […]