Take a look at at this Schecter Stratocaster style guitar thumb ring gash removal for my friend Franklin Elliot! This is truly an art to delicately sand and blend out the deep gashes in the neck. I was careful not to sand through the sealer finish coat on the neck. Check out all the pics […]
Thanks to The Met Museum for the recommendation to restore this vintage 1939 D’ANGELICO Excel. The original frets were corroded green and dented. I worked hard to remove the corrosion to save the original frets and did our micropolishing process of the frets/fingerboard. The procedure of micropolishing involves the frets being polished from 400 grit […]
Check out my friend Ray Chera’s Taylor guitar micropolishing of the frets, fingerboard cleaning and neck heel fracture gap restoration! The process of micropolishing involes leveling off a business card worth of thickness off the tops of the frets to get the deep string coil dents out and the corrosion, then I reshaped the frets […]
Check out this bad neck/fingerboard crack restoration! I restored this for my good friend singer/songwriter Sandy Privetera on her vintage Martin D-35 acoustic guitar. This kind of crack repair takes a lot of time to do it correctly and have it look invisible. I always use my family glue recipe invented by my Dad (Dr. […]
Gerald Edward, a singer/songwriter who studied music at Berklee and a good friend asked me to restore this antique Gibson A4. I was so excited to bring something back from death’s door in a way. All mandolins have a very high amount of string pressure, which called for a high strength military grade waterproof epoxy […]
This was a long repair job for Guitar Maker and fellow Marquetry artist Jim Macdonald. Jim created two marquetry guitar designs for the Gibson Custom Shop in the early 2000’s as part of their “Visual Artist Program.” Both guitars were priced at $14,000. In 2013, Jim began making his own guitars featuring beautiful marquetry work. […]
Check out my friend Bettina Forbes’ German violin restoration! This violin has been in her family for a long time. Also, Bettina is an instructor at the Monmouth Conservatory of Music in Red Bank New Jersey. This restoration was a very cautious one. I had to measure the fingerboard angle and make sure when the […]
Kevin Guerin’s vintage Gibson B.B. King Lucille broken neck restoration. I posted pics of the patch work back in September and finally finished the restoration. Kevin was playing a fundraiser and when he put his guitar on the stand a gust of wind knocked it down and it resulted in a bad crack in the […]
This was a deep and special project I got to be a part of. Last December 14th, 2016 me and Laura Appello were invited by music, film and TV industry veteran Bobby Chirmside to the Rick Springfield Stripped Down show at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank New Jersey. Bobby is a dear friend […]
