A big old chisel route for some new pickups. I stripped it back and filled the J bass hole. I ended up just enlarging the cavity under the guard and making it square, i figure a future owner might favour different pickups so this avoids the need for any future routing. I was just going to spray it black but i had purchased some Ice Metallic Blue aerosol from an auto shop as a test for an old Jag. The colour was good but spraying with aerosols just sucks. You have no control a

This one was destined to be black for quite awhile. When i picked it up from Tony, it had a snapped headstock and a some deep gouges across the top. It's a early 2000's faded Les Paul, really great guitars but the burst paint jobs looks a bit like clown makeup. The plan was to spray the top black, fix the headstock and add a phase switch. The split was fairly favourable, a long break that had more than enough grain to make a strong bond. There was a lot of blow out around the

I've always loved Danelectros, The Neptune Bound book is a great resource for all the innovations Nat Daniels came up with. My old Silvertone U1 still has the most comfortable and stable neck off all my guitars. This project came up while talking to Don Tony about mushing a 50's style P and a Danelectro together. It would have the slab body style with all the Dano trimmings, Long scale and a Coke Bottle headstock. It has a body construction similar to more recent dano reissue

A friend came to me asking for some possible recommendations for a purchase of a nice old flat top acoustic. I don't usually favor the Gibson from 70's, i have about six of them in the workshop is various states of fucked. The bridge plates are huge, the 3 piece maple necks usually falling apart, the binding is always half missing and overall they're usually disappointing. Sometimes you get proven wrong! Evan found a lovely sounding one at Echotone in Melbourne, however the o

I bought this guitar from Japan as an experiment in making easy money. It didn't work. I think i ended up snagging the guitar for $500 by the time i got it in the country. The description and photos were fine but failed to mention a couple of things. All the binding had started to rot and was falling off and the pancake body had started to separate. I'm never really a big fan of natural finishes so i think i had it in my head that i would refinish the guitar from the start. I

This custom came to me strung up and looking like a perfectly good good guitar. When i looked at the headstock something looked very very bad. It had obviously had a headstock break and had been repaired but at the first fret the neck buldged out where the repairer had obviously tried to add a volute to the notoriously weak spot. I started to peel back the finish with a razor blade and uncovered some pretty amazing stuff. they had cut all the way through to the truss rod and