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Saving a broken truss rod on a mid-60's Hummingbird...

I'm posting pics from my recent triumph , repairing a broken truss rod on a mid 60's Gibson Hummingbird.....The neck was pretty straight wi…

Started by thefishinmusician in Luthier Talk

17 Mar 13, 2013
Reply by Tim Mace

My Gibson J-40 repair experience (a bit long)

My%20Gibson%20J%2040%20repair%20experience.doc Howdy Folks,   This is my first post here,   I worked at Gryphon Strings for a year in the 9…

Started by David Burns in Luthier Talk

16 Mar 12, 2013
Reply by David Burns

Half semitones fretboard

Hello again I have a request from a customer - he wants me to refret his bass and add frets between the existing ones to be able to fret ha…

Started by Eugen C in Luthier Talk

17 Mar 11, 2013
Reply by Kerry Krishna

Framus acoustic questions....

A customer brought in an older (maybe a 50's?) Framus nylon string acoustic for some work. The guitar has fan bracing and seems to be decen…

Started by Mike Kolb in Luthier Talk

21 Mar 10, 2013
Reply by Scott Supak

scam "member"

All, There appears to be a weasel here.  I just received this "private" communication through my frets.com email.  I did a quick search of…

Started by Tom Faux in Luthier Talk

7 Mar 9, 2013
Reply by John Tracy

RCA Plug extraction

This may be a little far afield from classic lutherie, but does anyone have an idea about how to extract a broken pin from an RCA plug sock…

Started by LARRY KLOSE in Luthier Talk

14 Mar 8, 2013
Reply by RETROROD

Shiraki Brace Repair..?

Hello all. This is my first post on the forum and I think I have a thinker for you. I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with Shiraki…

Started by Andrew in Luthier Talk

11 Mar 8, 2013
Reply by Andrew

Guerrilla repairs

Limited budget and more crunched than you can see from the poor photo.On the inside there was a mess of glue, bondo maybe and propped up pi…

Started by John in Luthier Talk

1 Mar 7, 2013
Reply by Kerry Krishna

Partial refret to 'fix' a ski jump?

Hello. Recently I've had a lot of electric guitars and basses come to me for fret buzz in the upper frets. The problem is a ski jump. Since…

Started by MarkinCO in Luthier Talk

12 Mar 6, 2013
Reply by thefishinmusician

Touch up Frets advice

Thanks for reading.  I've been battling fret buzz on several guitars and wanted some advice/suggestions.  I finally bought a Fret Rocker fr…

Started by Jack Allen in Luthier Talk

26 Mar 6, 2013
Reply by thefishinmusician

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