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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…

Two Letters from Joseph DiTucci “Sometimes our greatest hardships and darkest moments forge the way for our brightest futures.” Two years ago — August 21, 2024 — I received this email from Joseph at D…

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…

An Ibanez Musician came in missing one of its custom humbucker covers. Here's how I molded the original in silicone and cast a replacement pickup cover in pigmented epoxy resin. I have a client with a…

Part one of a 1955 Gretsch Roundup restoration — a played-to-death cowboy guitar with a loose, up-bowed neck and a truss rod frozen solid. Reprinted with permission from Vintage Guitar Magazine. Origi…

Splinting a crack in an old Epiphone archtop — with spruce borrowed from the guitar’s own fretboard extension, and a sliver of old piano soundboard.

A limited-time Looth Group offer on Total Vise's modular guitar repair workstation — June 12–30, 2026. Total Vise builds modular workstations for guitar repair — and they’re giving the Looth Group com…

Repairing damaged binding and purfling points and replacing mismatched ivoroid point caps on an F5 mandolin — with 3D-scanned, CNC-milled cast-resin binding, color-matched and tinted to disappear. Thi…

EWA A106 Speaker Mount — Listening to Music or "Treatment" A bridge-mount that clamps a $15 EWA A106 speaker to your acoustic — for tunes or vibration "conditioning." The EWA A106 speaker is available…

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…

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