What on earth are people doing with their guitars??  This one broke from the heel, not as serious so needed resetting and gluing.  Also required a slight touch up with lacquer but other than that job’s a good ‘un. 🙂

This was a job to repair a lacquer chip paying careful attention to get the colour right..  

I got this neck break in to fix two weeks back.  It is a Gibson BFG Les Paul and the break is so bad it didn’t just need glue.  I needed to put in some mahogany strips to build back the missing wood before gluing.  Then it had to be stained to match the original…

I compared this model to a Gibson Les Paul Standard 2008, the chambered body version with burst bucker pro pickups and Newtrik jack.  The first thing I notice is the 2008 has thick lacquer buffed to a high gloss and the binding is not as tidy as on the Koss, so you can feel a…

The Les Paul Classic has weight relief chambers for a much lighter feel although this one is still on the heavy side.The pickups are 57 classic and hot super 57 pickups with coil splitting and a 15dB boost.  The Tune-o-Matic bridge and tailpiece are high quality chrome units. The frets go over the binding like…

This guitar was called the AELITA 1 made at the Rostov-on-don factory in Russia, it was an accordion factory which is why the scratchplate and buttons look like they came off an accordian ! The Aelita guitar was named after Alexi Tolstoi’s famous science fiction heroine. She was the Queen of Mars in his novel…