Examples of Our Work

Here’s a 57 strat I restored for my friend Greg Johnson.

I’ve always loved orange Gretsches with DeArmonds. This guitar left the factory as a sunburst Double Anniversary. When I got it, it sported a metallic green finish. When I stripped it I was in for a nasty shock… both the headstock and the heel had been cracked and repaired with a dark epoxy. The neck […]

This is a Strat I put together around a bunch of early 60’s parts I had kicking around. The body is a lightweight alder one from Allparts, finished in a faded Sonic Blue nitro lacquer with lots of cool checking and forearm wear. The neck is a beautiful flame-maple sample from Allparts. We dye the […]

I bought this Jazz Bass from Southworth Music about 6 months ago. The headstock finish is an original heavily ambered Olympic White, but the body had been stripped and stained an ugly brown color.

We sprayed the body to match the headstock and did some heavy checking and edge wear consistent with the condition of the […]

Wow, was this guitar a mess when it arrived! It had been sprayed with 30 coats of poly back in the 70’s, and the finish was a full 1/16th of an inch thick!

The neck had also been sprayed with poly, and it was a challenge to redo the front and back of the headstock and […]

This guitar was a neck and body refin we did for my friend Charlie from Seattle. Charlie wanted a look with less wear that was still lacquer checked. I also had to work around a few big dings that we found in the body. We did a minimum of fingerboard wear to recreate the look […]

Once in a while we have to deal with one of those weird people who want their guitar to look new instead of beat-up… to each his own, haha!

This semi-hollow guitar was made by my good friend Sean Kilback here on Vancouver Island. Sean is a guru of amp mods and circuit restoration, and you […]

This guitar is a custom resonator Tele build by my good friend Shannon Coberly at Trimmed + Burnin’ Guitars and Amps in Washington State. Shannon sends a lot of his Reso Teles to Nashville. He is a consummate craftsman and demands very high quality in his paint jobs. He was my first steady customer and […]

Once in a while Shannon gets an order for an exotic wood amp cab… this is a flame maple one that we sunbursted for him.

Here’s a 57 strat I redid for John Morrow – a great guy with a great guitar collection. John bought it from the original owner who bought it new. Somewhere along the way, this misguided soul (first owner- not John!) decided it would look better in metallic copper spraypaint…wish someone had told him the guitar could be […]