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Rodrigo Gomes pulls a dead truss rod out of a Fender bass, coves a new fretboard to fit the neck, and refrets it — in Dan's shop, 2017. Out with the old rod A new fretboard, coved to fit Routing the c…

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Scanning a broken headstock with the Creality Raptor, CNC-cutting a mahogany patch to the exact topology of the missing wedge, and finishing it back to Cherry Red. I've had the Creality Raptor 3D scan…

B.K. Vaught walked in with a heavily modified, refinished '57 Strat. We put a three-person team on it — strip the paint, replace the decal, narrow the bridge spacing, and bring it back to playable. Re…

K&K Pickup Aligner/Locator Jig – Parametric 3D Print Installing a K&K Pure Mini pickup is one of those jobs that looks simple until you're blind, upside-down inside a guitar, and wishing you had a thi…

Stepping down a half-dozen Strat and Tele necks from 7¼" to 9.5" — with no fretboard to hide behind. In 2018/2019 we made a half-dozen Strat and Tele necks from what, to me, was special wood: some ver…

Dan Erlewine using TJ Thompson's crack repair system.

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