Museum: Workshop Posts
Guitars: Bridge Work
- Summer/winter saddles
- Fully-compensate a 12-string saddle, add string ramps
- Reglue a bridge properly (modern footprint woes)
- Cleaning-up a parlor guitar bridge (arched foot)
- Regluing bridge on arched-foot Howe-Orme-style
- Correcting bad intonation on '60s Gibson adjustable bridges
- Why '60s Gibson bridges fall-off
- Lefty-fication drop-in saddle for '60s Gibson bridge
- Strong-arming a bridge plate warp
- Reglue bridge, Dremel a saddle slot on the quick
- Fill pinholes and shore-up a chipped bridge plate
- '20s Gibson L-0 crunch damage under bridge
- 1920s Gibson L-1 bridge woes
- Always measure before you glue!
- A smart (modern) guitar bridge shape
- A bad saddle slot
- Bad bridge placement on modern Recording King
- Swept under the rug...
- Epoxy bridge reglue for plywood guitar top
- Add a steel rod to an old unreinforced neck
- Repairing a Danelectro fretboard's missing section
- Retain sanity while dealing with mealy maple fretboards
- More dang ebonized maple fretboard stuff
- Modify bar-fret slots into t-fret slots
- 1960s Harmony Rocket neck revamp
- National slotted headstock repair
- Cutting fret-slots at the extension
- Installing side dots
- Natural color of Nat'l fretboard
- Cry at the worst Gibson neck joint ever
- Repair a plywood Gibson neck block
- ES-345 (short tenon) neck reset
- Repair a broken bolted-neck heel
- Repair a loose Japanese hollowbody electric neck block
- Repair a Regal-style doweled neck joint
- Bolting cruddy Chicago neck joint for security
- Fixing a bad Tacoma bolted neck joint
- Hilarious neck joint shims
- Heat needle and carbon fiber rod install
- Crunched Gurian neck joint
- Heat needle crush
- Kalamazoo quartet neck resets
- Taylor bolted neck pocket
- Shimming dovetail wings
- Adjustable National '50s neck heel gizmo
Guitars: Top & Body Repairs
Guitars: Bracing
- Rebracing a '40s Kay jumbo (double-x)
- Rebracing a '30s Kay Oahu jumbo (double-x)
- A good-enough "go bar" goof-around (I've since made my own deck)
- Bracing overall in 1890s x-braced Washburn (ew!)
- Bye-bye 1969 Martin braces...
- Scalloped bracing changes
Guitars: Miscellaneous
Resonator Instruments: General
- Tricone bridge/cone placement, saddle comp, etc
- Biscuit cone as Dobro cone for reso uke
- Dobro uke overhaul (inside shots)
- K&K pickup install in Dobro (better than factory-style)
- Quick compensated Nat'l saddle
Electric Guitars: General
- Danelectro bridge mod no. 1
- Danelectro bridge mod no. 2
- Super-fast cheesy bolt-on neck joint
- 1960s Kapa whammy unit
- How to restring your P-bass
- Silvertone/Harmony electric hollowbody overhaul
- Inside a Nat'l Memphis Minnie New Yorker
- Adding a support rod for poorly-built hollowbodies
Electric Guitars: Electronics & Pickups
- 1940s DeArmond tenor guitar pickup & alignment mod
- 1940s Gibson non-adjustable/poled P90
- Cleaning-up/removing mud from '60s circuits
- 1960s wiring improvements
- Grounding & jacks for acoustic+magnetic pickup combo
- Tightening-up those awful acoustic endpin jacks
- Mini-humbucker at P-bass neck position
- P90 in round-hole archtop
- Early Kay guitar pickup
- New magnetic living for a Hawaiian guitar
Mandolins, Tiples, Ukes, World: General
- Reglue a lute-backed crushed instrument on the quick
- Bad tiple intonation
- Two odd neck joints
- Bowlback binding
- Hidden rosette rainbows
- Those evil doweled neck joints
- Gibson mandolin refret
- Bowlback rib repair
- Cheater crack cleating at seams
- Gibson mandolin tailpiece repair
Banjos: General
Violin Family
Miscellaneous
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