Field Notes: Busy Days

I've been having quite the wild stop-by repairs over the past few days. Yesterday I got to fix-up my friend Heather's mix-match '62/'69 J/P-bass hybrid (she'd never played it actually gone-through), a weird black Daion dreadnought from the '80s, and then my usual slew of "regular" repairs.

Today was fun and unexpected in that I got to dial-in a new Brier Road F-ish-style mandolin, re-saddle and setup a Martin 0-16NY in exchange for a couple jars of local honey (awesome!), convert an Oscar Schmidt-made banjo-mandolin into a 4-string melody banjo (and level/dress the frets and set it up, of course) during a customer's lunch break, and shop-talk my friend Rob (while addressing some guitar woes) into perhaps believing in my gospel that all guitars should really have a couple of coordinator rods (or something that fulfills the same purpose) running the length of their bodies.

In conclusion: I should take more pictures of this stuff. Oh well!