We're Known
for Our Repair
Work

Joe learned repair out of necessity.

Back home in Louisiana, his first guitar was a Stella that had a crack down the side.

He traded a set of bicycle pedals for it and after repairing the crack, he learned his first guitar chords.

In 1948, his second guitar was a Gibson ES-125. He traded a fellow 4H Club member two registered Duroc Jersey pigs for it.

However, the Gibson's neck was cracked, so he had to repair it before it was playable.

His first Martin was D-18. It also had to be repaired, because someone had backed a car over the case crushing the headstock.

Not long ago, we welcome luthier Roger Morillo to our repair department. Roger has special experience and in all kinds of techniques from re-fretting all stringed instruments to doing setups for guitars, basses, banjos and mandolins.

As Roger notes, there are two types if set ups for electric instruments:

(1) The first includes cleaning fingerboards, cleaning potentiometers, adjustment of Truss Rod, the pickups and the bridge.

(2) The second is only setting the intonation of the bridge.

Roger also knows rather a lot about fret leveling. Sometimes it is not necessary to change the frets, they can be leveled and re crowned to give them a new look.

Joe and Roger are ready to fix whatever misfortune has befallen your instrument. Bring it in!

Venerable Old-Timers!

And doing what we do, we sometimes get to visit with -- and work on -- some wonderful old instruments, as illustrated by that great Les Paul above. Sometimes our customers bringing in VERY old instruments. For instance, take a look at this 1850s Martin guitar that dropped by the shop for some major work not long ago. This ol' boy was around for the Civil War and now it's going strong again.

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(304)722-5212