This guitar was built around 1978, these are great quality guitars as they are very well made. The paint finish is good and the colour is authentic. This came to me as the frets were in need of dressing and shaping.  The intonation was way out so that had to be fixed too.  After a…

Got this from Gibson Music Ashton Under Lyne as a repair job.  It had a break at the heel.  So had to re-glue it and do a little colour matched paint job to restore it. How weird that I should get this guitar this week when today the news breaks of the passing of Prince,…

Saturday 23rd January received call from a band playing a sell out gig at the Manchester O2 Ritz.  Bass players volume pot packed up the night before during the encore, they didn’t have a spare bass so had to do a quick run into Manchester to collect the guitar and return in time for sound…

A beautiful example of a signature guitar, pickups designed by Bill Lawrence. Six position rotary switch, what more could you ask for! Guitar designed by the man himself! Check out the Famous Frets section for the Jan Akkerman Personal and the new designed by Akkerman Brandin model of the JA Personal II.  

Some nice pics of a great guitar that I set up for a customer although pickups not original, VERY nice though!

Emergency bank holiday repair job for Wobbly Bob with about an hour before their gig on the Sparkle stage at Manchester Pride, busted machine head. Great ska music so check them out here.

Customer wanted high spec pots to replace the ones that came with the strat so I’ve rewired it and changed the capacitors as well.

I’ve posted this just for interest.  A friend came to see me with two guitars that have been built for use on an album cover.  The volume and tone pots that look like metal rivets are actually made of wood.  Apparently the idea is to make them look like they belong in a scrap yard…

New guitar that arrived in the shop in a damaged condition, the top edge lacquer and wood had been crushed.  The repair involved inserting tiny pieces of wood, sanding and then adding some finishing touches locally and then lacquer…….hey presto!  Good as new!

This is a typical repair job for me.  A replacement nut after the original had lost a piece so I fitted a new one that needed cutting and filing to shape for a left handed guitar (so don’t be thinking the negative on the picture has reversed).